To Conquer Death
by Rainne
Epilogue
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Faith shielded her eyes against the unusually bright morning sun, trying to get a fix on the vehicle coming up the long and winding road toward the Academy. Upon arriving in the Cotswolds with her seven Potentials, she had set about rebuilding the Council using its own assets, but not calling it the Council of Watchers. Instead, she and her girls simply called it The Academy. They felt that name was sufficient.
It looked like a Jeep. Faith slapped her horse's reins gently against its neck, urging it down towards the road where she could head off the approacher if it was someone who didn't need to be there.
She stopped her horse in the road, and the Jeep slowed and stopped before her. Its occupant climbed out and grinned up at her. "Hey."
"Hey."
"I'm glad you came."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah."
They were silent for a long moment, then Faith spoke again. "So... you here to stay?"
"Depends. You want me to stay?"
There was another long moment of silence, as eyes locked deliberately, the soul's windows open wide for viewing everything inside. Then, "Yeah. I want you to stay."
"Then I'll stay."
"Okay, then. It's this way." Faith turned her horse toward the east, heading down the road toward the Academy.
Dakota mumbled something to herself about how she always thought one was supposed to ride off into the sunSET, then climbed back in the Jeep and followed the Slayer.
THE END.