She was always strong. [ That's a pretty hefty disagreement, but it suits their life experience well enough. Des spent thousands of years of unpleasant living being tortured or torturing himself on and off. Of course he thinks that's how strength is forged. But Buffy's strength comes from inside, and that's where she thinks Myri's comes from too; it didn't need the fires of experience to be powerful and bright because it was strength of heart, not her magic. ]
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