"Is it possible that when you hit your head you got confused about whether you were planning to - what was it -"

She takes a deep breath. Extra bullshit. She can handle extra bullshit. She's from the bullshit capital of the world.

"OK. OK, we talked about this. After the - OK, step back from this for a second. You remember spring of sophomore year, when the nightmares thing happened, with Billy?"

"No."

"Yes. - you weren't in Sunnydale yet."

"Yeah, this is just Alex and Wishbone, sorry. OK. You remember - what was the first weird thing that happened, during the leadup to the nightmares?"

"Someone got attacked by toads."

"Yes, OK, technically toads fell out of the ceiling, that is correct. After that, the first thing we really should have noticed didn't make any sense."

"Michael had a sore throat? Snyder insisted you perform Shakespeare in the talent show?"

"Yeah, yes, those things. OK. Afterwards, when we were talking about the things we did wrong, we talked about how - sometimes when reality is altered, or when memories are altered, it's, um, it's really hard to tell? But if you stop and think about it you can see ways that things are maybe off, things that don't make sense. You remember?"

"Yes."

"OK. You don't remember anything about a spell at all?"

"A spell?"

"All right. OK. Back to the nightmares. You remember what we were talking about, with the nightmares, how there were weird things we should have noticed?"

"Yes."

"OK. Does it not strike you as super super weird that I, an unmarried Catholic girl who - " she glances at Ryan. Who, uh, experiences excruciating pain from having sex. "Does it not strike you as really weird that I have a baby?"

"It - wait a second -"

Did I tell you earlier that I was surprised by something?

He examines the papers on his desk. Not that I recall but there's a note here... indicating that you were confused that Karen gave herself a head injury and that you had a weapon with her while she was giving birth.

"Huh, those are different. I'm not confused that you had a baby since in humans that can happen by accident but I was confused that I had a sword when you had your baby, apparently. And I was confused by how you injured your head - but wait, we figured that out, we had an answer to that one -"

" - I mean, it can happen by accident if you have sex, which is - an objectively really weird thing for me to decide to do? - and yes, I injured my head while I was doing the spell to seal Melkor away."

"To seal Melkor away? There's a spell that does that?"

"Yes!"

"That's a big deal - it could end the war."

" - yes. This is why I agreed to do it."

He gestures for a quill and parchment and writes things. 

- Melkor 

- Karen

" - what were you saying?"

"That I hit my head while doing the spell to seal Melkor away."