My choices are my own; Buffy could not have appeared more delighted at that stand. This was the spectacular element that she approved of in the young woman. It was a quality she was keen to work with. Alongside.

But then her face showed a flicker of disappointment. "Sokka's a...good man." But Buffy wondered if he was, perhaps, too good. She certainly didn't fear any deal being struck between Sokka and Jack but she did wonder whether Sokka would share the pirate's grim take on what had become the Slayer's driving force in this place.

"If you do tell him -- can we tell him together? It seems like the kind of thing he should hear from both of us."

A confession, then. The Slayer hadn't shared her aspirations with the good man in question.