Disclaimer: The Old Kingdom Trilogy belongs to Garth Nix. Buffy the Vampire Slayer belongs to Joss Whedon.
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Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker? ~The Book of the Dead
Tangy, metallic. When had her girlfriend begun to smell like molten copper, like burnt blood?
Tara wondered how she had missed the signs: there had to have been signs, something leading up to this stench, which no one seemed able to smell but her.
Why had she supported Willow's desire to pull Buffy back into the world of the living?
Because Tara, of all people, should have known the dead were meant to stay dead.
But magic is so different here, she had told herself. Yet the acrid odor of necromancy clung to Willow, overwhelming her previous scent of strawberries and sage, and Tara was afraid.
