>Ball's in your court, Van Helsing - This is the surviving
>vestige of a silly note I jotted down when this scene first occurred
>to me:
>

Oh, I think this is perfectly possible--not in real time, but in a buffer state, like a print job patiently waiting for the laptop to be reconnected to the LAN with the printer on it. Soon as he gets back Skuld gets something that makes her laugh out loud and REALLY want to find out what in Midgard happened.

>For the record, he's not literally calling out the late Abraham van
>Helsing, who did good work against a vampire who Needed Killing in the
>1890s. He has in mind the real Van Helsing's latter-day successors
>back in the 25th century, who are a lot less judicious about their
>target selection. Think of them as the Jokerz of vampire
>hunters—the brand name and the flash, but none of the substance.

The clowns we saw in both Marcy's intro story and Saya's date with Etrigan.

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Authors of our fates
Orchestrate our fall from grace
Poorest players on the stage
Our defiance drives us straight to the edge