forward to the past?

Later on Sunday, June 15th, entered in Journal belatedly.

As we passed through the outskirts of Sunnydale it became increasingly clear that this was not the town that I'd known. ( Changes )

We were potentially in trouble. ( dangers )

Operatives get into certain patterns of mind and behaviour in those kind of jobs, unless they spend a lot of downtime with those who don't live that way. Some of the Vengeance girls are notorious for never thinking of anything else. They'll tell you about their best efforts every chance they get.

If I had to face another operative in a dimension that he'd be regarding as his field of operations, I wanted to be sure that I was at full strength, not tired by portal travel.

I've had some bad moments in Sunnydale. Some of them were while trying to get us out of town in that battered car, racing against moonrise, fast as feasible without drawing police attention - if Erynne was in a cell with humans when the moon came up things would get ... complicated...

It wasn't the best time to be shouting about power bases at a were-wolf with pre-moonrise tension! She seemed to be judging the risk by what she's seen of me - but I'd been stranded in a hell-dimension that was full of Wicca and worse, with no backup, looking for allies - and I'd been trying to impress her anyway.

Being a working operative on a gig, with a power base, a proper set-up and a way home - that's different. I still don't believe that she realizes how different.