About an hour into the drive most casual conversation had been exhausted. What was left entailed mostly intense window staring punctuated by brief moments of thumb twiddling. The sleepy late afternoon sang Giles a lullabye while sluggishness crept in and affected Giles' driving.
"I don't want to sound too mature, but do we have much of a plan?" Xander asked of no one in particular. The question awoke most of the occupants of the van, including Giles, which was fortunate because he finally noticed the sedan that had been trying to pass him for the past half mile.
"What do you mean?" questioned Buffy.
"Finding him is the easy part, but what happens once we do find him? 'Here's a milkbone, now be a good boy and don't be a werewolf anymore'?" Xander wondered.
"Oh, don't worry, we can use that ritual that I discovered in Abel's dungeon. Well, it's not really a ritual, it's more of a potion splattering," answered Willow.
"You went through the necromancer's lair?" inquired Giles with a touch of concern.
"Only to find out how to change Oz back," assured Willow.
"I thought you said you need hellfire for that ritual to work," Xander said, slightly abashed.
"Yes, we do," replied Willow.
"Don't tell me you've attempted to summon hellfire," asked Giles, concern mounting.
"No. . . well. . . I tried researching it, but there wasn't much written about it; other than it's really nasty stuff," Willow conceded.
"Very nasty indeed. You must be very careful with your endeavors into the black arts. Hellfire, the whole of necromancy for that matter, is a very dangerous vocation. Legend has it that few survive learning to summon hellfire, let alone wielding it," chastised Giles.
"Speaking of which, why is it that Abel had his hellflame backfire?" wondered Buffy.
Giles zealously jumped to answering the question, "To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. I have speculated in my head about it-" His speculations were cut short.
"It's because he made himself able to feel," interrupted Willow. She explained further, "When a necromancer artificially induces a sense of feeling he becomes susceptible to his own hellfire."
"Where did you read that?" inquired Giles obstinately.
"In that book 'The Lost Art of Necromantics'," answered Willow.
"Oh," said Giles, proverbial tail between his legs.
"So where are we going to get hellfire other than eating something with a lot of garlic?" questioned Cordelia.
"Even if Abel were capable of having an actual thought right now I don't think he'd be too keen on giving us a helping hand," observed Xander.
"Well if he were awake, let's just pause for a moment to mention how we so do not want that, then maybe we could set something up," Buffy offered.
"Yeah, all it takes is for Oz to be doused in a few reagents and hit with a small blast of hellfire and he'll be cured. I'm the last one who would want Abel up and running, but what if there's no other way," Willow speculated.
"Let's just worry about one thing at a time, shall we? We still need to find Oz," reminded Giles.
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