GUNN: So, how are you doing there, Fred?

FRED: Oh, it's a simple equation, really. The ancient Roman calendar has fourteen hundred and sixty-four days in a four-year cycle. The Etruscan, Sumerian, and Druidian each have their own cycles. You work forward from the presumed day of the prophecy under each calendar, factoring in our own three hundred and sixty-five day calendar and accounting for a three day discrepancy for every four years and... Oh. - That can't be right. - Unless the world ended last March.

GUNN: So, are we talking Armageddon - or bad house number? Is it a bad event - or a bad guy?

WESLEY: It's not clear on that. It predicts the arrival or arising of the Tro-clan, the person or being that brings about the ruination of mankind.

GUNN: So it's a two for one. Isn't that nice.

WESLEY: And I'm not sure on the translation. Ruination may in fact mean purification.

GUNN: Purification? So this Tro-clan is a good thing?

WESLEY: I doubt that. But it's purification in Aramaic, ruination in ancient Greek and in the lost Ga-shundi language it means both.

CORDELIA: And you don't want to make the same mistake twice.

WESLEY: (guiltily) No.

FRED: What mistake?

WESLEY: There was another prophecy a while back. It seemed to be about Angel and contained the word 'Shanshu' which I thought meant to die and I - sort of told Angel...

CORDELIA: ...that we was going to die.

FRED: Oh, no.

WESLEY: Then I found out it also meant to live. It meant to die and to live.

FRED: So - which is it?

WESLEY: Both. In his case it meant that some day the vampire in him might die, but the human in him might live.

FRED: That he would be like a normal man?

WESLEY: Yes.

FRED: Wow. What would we do if that happened?

CORDELIA: I'd buy him some plaid shirts and take him to the beach. The boy needs some color.

(Fred goes back to typing on the laptop.)

FRED: There. That came out better. - Oh. No it didn't. It's still very preliminary, but - if these calculations are correct, this bad thing should already be here. (Looks around) Well, I-I guess not right here, but - here in LA. Let me run these numbers again.

• The Shanshu prophecy/scroll of Aberjian
• Troclon Prophecy, Sahjahn, etc

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