[ Something Willow said apparently gets to her, because it draws Buffy out of her self-pity. She looks up, searching the redhead’s face. Instead of thinking of Faith’s Watcher’s Council, or anyone else who might have originated the power back in her world, she thinks of — ]

Sehanine. [ The spaces in between. She’d claimed responsibility for bringing Buffy here out of some need—it wasn’t entirely outside the realm of possibility that Willow’s situation was precisely the same. Still, a big part of her is reluctant to ascribe that much importance to herself. Especially when Faith doesn’t need the inter-dimensional pep talk. She shakes her head. ] No. There’s no … Power-bestower, or any of that. It’s just the Veil. And it’s random. You’re here because your luck is just as bad the rest of us.