"Oh. Oh." It hits her then and her eyes go wide. Okay that would suck. A lot. Now she gets it.

A magical doodad? "What was it supposed to do? I mean, who was it fixing, what was wrong?"

The unspoken question was why didn't he ask her to help, though a smaller part of her knew the answer was because she was with Buffy, helping out in Sunnydale and they probably couldn't have spared her. Not with everything going on. Even if Angel and Gwen were from Willow's future, she knew there would always be a fight. That's just how it went when you were the best friend of the Slayer.