It’s actually rather amazing, in the grand scheme of things, that Buffy gets infectious demon yecch on her person, in her hair, and all over her clothes so very rarely. If her life were a life, and not a fictional existence, she would have serious laundry problems. And imagine a slayer who’s allergic to vampire dust!
All of which is my way of saying that in “Earshot,” our Slayer gets glowy blood on her hand while taking on two mouthless demons. It seeps in and she moves on, unawares.
Next day, though, the fact that the hand is itching is background noise to a scene where we learn that Giles and Wesley have come up with goose-egg on the Ascension. Buffy is unimpressed with their non-progress, not so much because the Mayor’s the baddie and dangerous and all, as because it means Angel has alienated her for nothing. This time.
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