You write fic that inspires me to print it out and puzzle over it with a pen, marking arrows from here to there to show the connections and keep track of the "aha!" moments that flash through my mind.

That's interesting because what I'm trying to do when I write a fic like this is take canon and draw arrows, too. I don't think it'll ever stop stunning me how much things interconnect, especially when it's as tightly woven a world as Whedon's.

This one I liked noting what I thought of as the "preposition moments" -- your use of the inside/between/inner words, and their opposites.

I'm glad you enjoyed that! I have a bad habit of getting obsessed with the words to the point where they lose meaning, and I was afraid I did that here with the inside/outside stuff, especially in the Angelus bit. It just fascinates me how much Wes is about the places inside and holding everything in, when all he really wants is to get out.

So glad you liked it, and that you appreciate the weird word tricks. Thanks so much.