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“But I am the Slayer!”

“Yes. As we stated earlier, someone interfered. Someone extraordinarily powerful. Someone who waited until the First had the time to verify that Buffy Summers was, in fact, dead, and only then altered the fundamental reality which permitted you to assume the powers of a Slayer. Recall that in our reality --the mathematical order which underlies the unique physical rules of the universe you now inhabit—a being such as the Slayer is impossible. It is a creature of ‘magic,’ and cannot ordinarily exist unless as a deliberately imposed distortion upon the underlying reality matrix.

“It now appears that someone altered our very perception as to what constitutes fundamental reality, so if the First ever looked again, it would seem the way things are now is the way thing have always been, the way they were meant to be. This change affected not just the natural base reality of this entire universe; it affected everything which measures the natural base reality of this entire universe. The way things are now –a natural order which permits a Slayer to exist in this space and time— has simply become the way things were meant to be. The energy it would have taken to affect this change is almost incalculable. It would have taken more power than a million stars such as your sun produce throughout its entire lifespan to be able to affect such a fundamental change upon such a vast scale.

“It would have taken the power of a God.”

Buffy had already assumed that the Powers That Be had gotten involved, had been the ones to bring her back. The Asgard’s description as to how they’d done it was more complicated than her own assumption –she figured they’d snapped their fingers, and Stuff Happened—but didn’t change the results. “I already knew –well, suspected—that the Powers That Be brought me back to fight the First.”

Far Beyond Normal, Chapter 18