A sphere of light began to coalesce in the middle of the kitchen. Within the sphere the sounds of a storm could be heard brewing. Lightning seemed to be contained within the sphere. As the lightning dissipated, the colors began to take a feminine form.

She was slender and very attractive. Her eyes seemed to change colors having an almost mesmerizing. They altered from hazel, to a deep brown, to a forest green before settling on hazel once again. Her dark brown hair went beyond her shoulders. In all, she was quite alluring.

As the lights began to fade and the figure could be clearly made, Duncan began to chuckle. When Xander glanced over at him Duncan was simply shaking his head.

"Now this is just too much."

Xander looked at him intently. "You know her?"

Duncan simply shook his head. "Yes, it's Cassandra." A small smile formed on his face as he glanced back in her direction.

She too was smiling at Duncan. While Duncan's was a bit strained due to current events, hers was of a brilliant nature. The smile itself seemed to brighten the room, and the moods of everyone present.

She began to take a few paces towards the table before Xander stopped her.

"Stop!"

She looked up at him expectantly, when she suddenly frowned. "Who are you?"

Xander shook his head, as if clearing some cobwebs, then replied. "Not important at the moment. What is important is making sure you aren't The First in disguise."

She smiled and gestured towards a bottle of beer. Xander looked at it for a moment before motioning towards Methos. Understanding what his student was asking, he picked up a bottle and lightly tossed it to her. After catching it, she gave another brilliant smile before opening the bottle and taking a long pull. Methos could be heard mumbling 'A woman after my own heart.'

Hearing that, she gave him a slight scowl before catching herself, and decided to sit down in one of the empty seats. Methos gave his own small disappointed frown that lasted for less than second. Xander and Duncan missed none of this. Taking their cue from her, the three men decided to sit down as well.

Trying to break the tension Xander looked straight at Methos with humor dancing in his eyes. "What exactly would you have done if she was The First and the bottle went right through her?"

With a smile of his own, Methos answered. "Why you would have gotten a sponge and picked up the glass of course."

"Oh I don't think so."

"Don't argue with your Elders boy!"

smirking "Senile Perhaps!"

A polite cough interrupted their mock tirade. "Ahem." All of the men around the table looked at her with amused smiles on their faces. She smiled back at them before continuing.

"You actually won't need to worry about The First, or any other incorporeal beings, from entering these premises." From everyone's confused expression, she elaborated. "I was with a coven in England before coming here."

They all had an expression saying 'So?' causing her to roll her eyes. Glancing between Duncan and Methos she continued.

"You both forget that I am a seer." Slight comprehension appeared in their eyes. "I've been having slight flashes for the few weeks about this." She looked intently at Xander. "Though…I don't recall you in any of my visions." Xander could only shrug in response. To him, not much of what was going on made sense. There were just too many coincidences. How did she even know what The First was? He decided to just sit back and listen.

"I've been researching what I can, but nothing was really clear. I didn't know that it was The First." She looked somewhat downcast. "I don't really have much information about it. I was hoping it was Arahman that you were facing again."

Xander smiled at this. 'Well…she's definitely a witch. She knows about Arahman…so I suppose its not entirely unfeasible she would know about The First.'

Duncan was the first to speak up. "They are one and the same." A smile of understanding spread upon her beautiful face.

Before she could say anything, Xander raised his hand as he rarely ever did in school.

"Question." He was staring straight into Cassandra's hypnotic eyes. "How exactly are you sure that The First can't come in here." He scrunched his brow in confusion. "Beyond that, how did you know where to place the…" He seemed to search for the proper word. "Wards? Yea wards. How did you even know where to teleport?" He was waiving his hands in the general direction of where she had made her spectacular entrance.

She looked at him intently as the rest of the table was looking intently at her. She gave a small smile of her own, then responded. "It was the coven, with my help, that put the wards around this place. And I knew to place it on this residence because I knew to place it wherever Duncan was." She raised her hand to hold off anyone's question. "And I knew where Duncan was because I used a Crystal of Clarity to scry for him."

The men sat around the table nodding their heads in varying degrees of understanding.

Looking over at Duncan, Cassandra asked, "So are you going to continue to be a poor host, or are you going to introduce me to your friend?"

Duncan smiled at her before nodding his head towards Methos. "He is our student." Nodding his head towards Methos once again, he continued. "His primary student, but my student as well." Xander smiled fondly at hearing this. "His name is Alexander."

"The one you were telling me about earlier?" Seeing Duncan nod, Cassandra got up and made to embrace him. "Alexander, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Xander got up to greet the new arrival. "Same here as well."