(Tara's room)

WILLOW: I'm sorry you're feeling all blechy. But we'll get together with Buffy another time. Sometime soon. (smiles) I think you'll really like her.

TARA: She's not your friend.

WILLOW: I may have overestimated the 'you liking her' factor.

TARA: No, no. I mean, I don't (sighs) I don't think she's . . . her.

WILLOW: You lost me.

TARA: Well, uh, a person's energy has a flow, a unity. Buffy's was . . . was fragmented. It-it grated, like something forced in where it doesn't belong. Plus, she was, um, she was kind of mean.

WILLOW: So you think Buffy's not herself? Like she's been possessed or something?

TARA: I'm not sure.

WILLOW: You didn't sense a hyena energy at all, did you? Because hyena possession is just . . . unpleasant.

TARA: Do you have anything of hers?

WILLOW: Of Buffy's? Uh. Oh. This ring.

TARA: I-I think there's a way we can . . . The passage to the nether realm. There-there's a ritual. If you can find Buffy there, you should be able to see.

WILLOW: If it'll help her. What?

TARA: Well, the nether realm exists beyond the physical world. Accessing it is . . . It-it's kind of like astral projection. It's very intense. I'd have to be your anchor. Keep you on this plane.

WILLOW: I trust you.

TARA: It-it's not like anything that we've ever--

WILLOW: (smiling) I trust you.

• Willow & Buffy
• Willow & Tara

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by *Joseph B*. Full transcript at:
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