" - okay."

"You didn't suffer the head injury giving birth," he says slowly. "It's confusing - you suffered it....doing something else? But what?"

"....the spell."

"You were doing a spell! Why were you doing a spell?"

"To seal Melkor away," she says, patiently.

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"Why didn't I tell you what?"

" - well, you just said that you wanted to do a spell. Didn't she?"

"Yeah, she was going to do a spell, then she hit her head, she said that."

" - so, if you had told us, then we could've been - standing behind you. While you did the spell."

"You were right here when it happened. - or, you and Wishbone were. Wishbone, do you remember - "

- ah. No. No, he won't remember, he doesn't remember what's happened to any of the gods he's tried to slay.

Well. This is some kind of new bullshit. Extra bullshit. Because they didn't have enough bullshit in their lives already.

I don't remember anything about a spell.

He bounces this to everyone present.

Just checking - was Karen planning to do a spell?

You did not tell me that Karen was planning to do a spell. Karen didn't tell me that she was planning to do a spell.

"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?"