Faith had read a book once. Well, skimmed it. The book had been dull but the class was deathly boring, so. Anyhow. In the book, she'd found a concept.
Redress.
It'd been ... interesting.
To have an item, similar or equal to the item damaged given in exchange.
Faith knows the whole eye for an eye logic of equivalent exchange, but this is on a whole 'nother level. Still, she knows its never gonna apply to her.
And it still doesn't. Somehow, she knows B isn't going to be giving up her heart anytime soon.
She hadn't even realized she had it. Sure, Faith had almost killed a guy by mistake (which was ... probably not murder? Who knows) but Buffy is just straight up oblivious when she wants to be. And probably straight too.
Preventing the end of the world is a fairly good excuse, as far as excuses go, but it's getting old.
Old and worn, thin, tattered like the crumpled rags that hit the ground after each successful dusting. (Which is another thing. Would like kill vamps to do a little darning every now and again? Faith wouldn't be caught in some of the stuff they're seen dead in.)
What goes around comes around. Faith had been good at hiding her feelings, until she wasn't.
Death for dead, fullness of a life given for countless others taken. Only, there's only two of them. Countless doesn't really apply, now does it? Only death can pay for life. She read that in some book or other.
Not important. Nothings as important as reve -redemption. Even if redemption is a sort of revenge. (Revenge on who, she doesn't ask.) Her head hurts.
Nothing she can't handle. You start living large, you learn how to be five by five come morning.