"Oh, absolutely. We'd never plot against her or anything. Not even Tom would do that."

He bites his lip. Maybe he shouldn't have said the last in the way he did.

"And hey, sorry, again, about Tom. He learned a lot on his own - we all did. There are no guidebooks to the supernatural features of Sunnydale. You have to learn it as you go, so I guess he figured you should do the same. But seriously, if you need to know something, Alyce and I can help explain."