Here there be dragons

Dawn could see Willow and X, the Tokyo slayer, in the shadows of the tunnel entrance on the other side of the cavern. It had been only a week since they'd been there last but things looked very different.

"Have we met before?" a voice she didn't recognize asked.

She could hear Buffy's voice carrying across the cavern.

"Not formally, Dick."

[Battle for the Hellmouth]

[Aftermath]

She lay there against the stone wall, unable to move, just barely aware of her surroundings. She thought she could feel her fingers and toes going numb in the cold carvern cold, even as something warm seemed to flow languidly down her side. Breathing wasn't as much of an effort as she thought it should be as she took shallow breaths around the sharp pain deep in the pit of her stomach.

There were voices talking, pleading with her, just barely audible over the roar that seemed to cover everything. Buffy tried to pick them out, to separate them into individuals. But she couldn't find the energy as everything faded away.

"Buffy? You need to get up. It isn't time to go yet." A soft voice whispered into her ears. It was so familiar but she couldn't quite place it. She'd followed that voice before.