taxonomites | XII: [ visual | location: Shelley ] Would you like me to lie to you now?

Her sarcophagus. Her resting place. She had gone to visit it mere moments ago, as a means of connecting with a past she can no longer return to.

Too many things to ponder on. Too long had she been held in this place, against her will, against her desire. And she can find no means to alleviate her increasing discomfort. Her recent bout with Spike, and even with the vampire leader, had helped little to comfort her. Her conversations with the younger Wesley only confirmed her thoughts.

She had no purpose here. She had no place here.

And yet this realization is not new.

Illyria reaches out to touch her sarcophagus - when the glitch hits.

She watches, disturbed, as her skin, her armor changes. How can this be? She had no desire to look like Winifred. Illyria had not willed it. She throws her head back, closes her eyes - nothing.

She grits her teeth as suspicion begins to gnaw at her. Lashing out, she pushes her sarcophagus away until it crashes and destroys one of the walls.

Amidst the dust and debris, Illyria stands panting. Her tablet, attached to her wrist now, records her movements as she begins to inspect her borrowed form.

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You speak to me as if I'm yours to command.

Fine, change back please. Thought you were over this.

[ admitting it - that those who hold power in this place can also lord it over her as well - is unacceptable. ]

You thought wrong.

[Something is off here.]

Least you don't think you're her this time. Still, it's not your form to take. Why won't you change back?

Not my form? This body belongs to me. I will use it as I please. I will look as I please.

[Pause.]

You can't change back, can you?

[ she smiles, and the smile looks so foreign on fred's face. it has no trace of the warmth or the sincerity that's usually present, before. ]

How absurd.

Is it?

[Spike's not sure whether he's trying to goad her into changing back or if he actually believes it. It wouldn't be the first time Illyria's had trouble keeping form, and it is the sort of thing the aliens reportedly do.]

Prove it, then. Turn back.

[ her answer is swift and emphatic. ]

No.

[His smirk is practically audible.]

I knew it.

[ while her anger is audible in hers. ]

Even in this form, I can still break you, Spike.

[It's a good thing Spike's response to threats is to ignore them.]

Yeah, probably. But that wouldn't solve your problem.

And yet it will truly be entertaining.

Maybe later.

You must hate this. Being under their control. I know the feeling. It's why I still want to leave, even with Fred and Buffy and everyone here and alive.

[ pause. ]

My defeat. They revel too much in it.

...Did they make you sing as well?

[Voice]

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[ check it out, one of those times he got a filter right! ]

You think she's stuck again, like she used to get in hell?

Not quite the same. She doesn't have Fred's personality. I think it's a glitch.

Of course it's a glitch. At least it's a relatively tame one. It could be much, much worse.

...her being glitched back to full power, for instance.

Or into how she was just before the time reset. No George here to help us with that.

All right, this isn't really isn't that bad, then. Even if it's still hard seeing her like that.

Yeah. [ he sighs. ] What makes it bad is that no-one else is seeing it - seeing her - the way we do.

So many of our friends here and none of them from when we are.

Except Connor. He'd probably see it our way.

We're beyond so many of them. Most of them aren't even around anymore.

He would. I imagine that's why he hasn't spoken up, yet.

[ voice | locked to spike and angel ]

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