I didn't expect a new chapter so soon--but I am definitely very pleasantly surprised!

This chapter makes me want to cry, and I'm not even sure why. But your Buffy has been so closed-off for so long that the way you write her slowly opening up again emotionally is almost painful. In a good way.

I loved this:

She looked weak, like someone who pitied herself, like someone who still hated herself even after she’d learned to live again after dying.

Ouch. Poor Buffy.