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"A pleasure to meet you, Miss Summers, Lady Anya, but allow me the question: which costumes? And I never heard of a town named Sunnydale." Behind Gary, George, Raoul and Alanna come down the stairs. Alanna frowns at the woman in the huge rabbit costume. "And, excuse me for asking, but why in the name of the Goddess are you wearing a huge rabbit dress?"

Anya looks down at herself, then at Princess Buffy and at last at the red-haired woman in hose, strange and a much too long shirt. She makes a face and prefers not to answer. Both girls turn their heads when Giles enters the room, wearing a big, dark-blue, pointy hat with silver-shining stars on it and a long, same coloured robe. He starts cleaning his glasses. "Uh, Buffy, what is going on here? We're waiting for you." Buffy sighs and gestures to the group in front of the stairs. "Umm... we have guests from Middle Earth" she remarks.

"What? Wait, no, it's Tortall! We're from Tortall" Alanna interrupts. "Good evening, Sir. As I can see, you're a mage, so I hope you can help me by telling me what's going on." Alanna is still frowning, now slightly annoyed from all that polite blah. Knowing her long enough, George stands behind her, resting a hand on her shoulder, to prevent her from loosing her temper.

"This rude woman starts to drive me crazy!", Buffy murmurs. "Who does she think she is?" Giles has put his glasses on and takes now a closer look at their visitors. It makes him think, that the girl called him a mage. This was such an old word. And how did she know it anyway? Anya is still trying to flirt with Jonathan. She has completely forgotten about her huge rabbit costume and how stupid she looks in it. Giles finally speaks again, now to Alanna. "I'm sorry, I think I've never heard of a state called Tortall. Is it somewhere in the USA?"

"I heard that!" Alanna growls, glaring daggers at Buffy as George's grip strengthens. Jonathan, smiling charmingly at Anya in a huge rabbit costume hears nothing. "Um- no, it's one of the Eastern Lands." Gary tells Giles. Alanna, still glaring at Buffy, says sweetly "Nice dress... but aren't your skirts kind of short? Do you want the men to leap at you?"

"Well" Buffy thinks, "that's actually exactly what I want. But this girl really don't have the right to tell me." Now she's really getting mad. "At least men are going to look at me!" she answers. Giles looks a little irritated, but keeps his eyes on the guy who seems to be somehow the leader. "Oh, so you're from Europe?" he asks him. His mind is working. "Tortall... somewhere I must have heard it... it's not possible that there's a country, a single thing in this world, I do not know..." Anya has finally noticed that she's still put in that huge rabbit costume and steps back to hide her rosé-coloured paws behind Buffy's back. She even takes off her ears.

Alanna meanwhile coughs outraged. "Excuse me? Do you see this man here? He is my husband! Do you know what that means?! Men don't just look at me!" George rubs his forehead. "And Jon here wanted to marry me, too!" Her face goes red with anger. Now that Anya tries to hide them, Jon notices her paws. Startled he turns away a little. "Europe? No, no, one of the four great Eastern Lands."

Noticing that Jon's attention fades, Anya hurries away to take her costume off. If she dressed like she usually did, his attention would surely get her. And he wouldn't want to marry this strange girl anymore then! She's held back by Buffy, who looses her temper now completely. This girl was married? This stupid girl? The man doesn't even look so badly. Damned! She would have to visit Spike today now! Giles is still trying to keep his conscience. He'd never heard of the four great Eastern Lands. "Umm... where exactly are these Eastern Lands?" he asks. "Oh, common Giles!" Buffy interrupts him. "This is a trick. A Halloween-trick. They think it's funny. Though..." she glares at Alanna, "it's so not!"

Alanna glares back, snarling „What the hell are you talking about? Do you really think I asked for being here?!" A second hand is laid onto her shoulder. "Let go, lass" George inquires, softly trying to calm her down. "At the Inner Sea, between Tyra, Scanra, Galla and Maren." Jon, turning, sees Raoul banging his head against the wall. "God, guys! Couldn't you please focus on our little problem here?"

Giles nods as if he agrees, but at the same time shakes his head. "I don't know any of those countries, I think..." Suddenly he's interrupted by Anya. "They're in another dimension, of course you don't know them." She's wearing a short bright-blue skirt now and a dark-blue top and she's extremely happy with her choice, what she expresses in beaming at Jon, and places into the foreground. Buffy pouts now, but decides, that it is not worth talking to this girl, 'cause she's obviously completely insane. Did she really think, she herself liked having her here, just to make her feel uncomfortable. As if her life wasn't mess enough!

Jon, seeing Alanna return dressed like this, turns back to her, smiling charmingly, winking at her with bright sapphire-blue eyes. "This blue suits you perfectly, my Lady" he purrs, "it makes your beautiful eyes beam brightly." Alanna snores and looks in another direction, receiving a short kiss from George. "Another dimension? That's interesting... could you explain that further?"

"Well... that could be..." Giles says, happy that he hasn't forgotten a European country, but at the same time angry that not he had the idea with the other dimension. However. "How exactly did you come here?"

"That must've been Numair, that-" Alanna's interrupted by a knudge from Gary, who takes over. "We do suspect that our most powerful palace-mage made a fatal mistake."

Anya giggles from the compliment Jon has given her and smiles so widely that everyone around just have to notice all of her white-shining teeth. "I know" she tells Jonathan. To Gary she only says "Oh that's easy, we'll fix it!" for which she earns a scowl from Giles. But Buffy nods eagerly. All she's wanting at this second, is to get rid of that silly girl! "Will can do that. She's pretty powerful."

All of them sigh in great relief – except from Jon. "What, we will fix it? I'm supposed to leave you and your incredibly grace without even a dance? I myself think we should fix that first." Alanna kicks him. "But you do remember Thayet, right?" "Who? Oh! Thayet." He chokes a curse and smiles at Anya.

A/N: alright, this was the second chapter…again, please review!!!