(outside the Magic Box. Willow & Tara pour colored sand)

DAWN: You guys doin' a spell?

WILLOW: Dawn, hey. Y-yeah, we're doing an early warning incantation. If anything hellgodishly powerful comes within a hundred feet of the shop, then screechy siren things will, you know, screech.

TARA: This should give us a heads-up so we can hide ... the, um, key.

WILLOW: We already put one up around your house.

DAWN: Cool, can I help?

WILLOW: Well, I don't think Buffy would like the, uh, black arts bumpin' auras with the littlest Summers.

DAWN: (nods resignedly) Yeah, whatever.

(Goes into the shop)

TARA: (quietly) How can she not be real?

WILLOW: She's real, she's just ... kinda ... new.

• Buffy & Dawn
• Dawn as the Key
• Willow's Witchiness

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; Transcribed by Joan the English Chick (pisces@englishchick.com).. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/91bloodties.html