Several hours later, Dawnie was still glowing but the tears had long since dried and the fear and panic had given way to boredom and disappointment. Willow made a phone call, at Giles' request, to the Watcher's Council. Now the Summer's residence looked like a crime scene. Local authorities had been assuaged. The top minds in various fields had been called in or contacted. All three Scoobies were now being observed and monitored. No one dared actually touch the threesome, after Giles relayed Xander's mishap. It was believed anyone actually touching the threesome would get trapped in the glowing.. whatever it was.

Dawnie stood as still as she could, but various parts of her body kept itching. Not painfully or concernedly. Just in that way skin tends to itch when one has been told to stand still. She was repeatedly being asked to stop fidgeting as various probes and prods were hovering about her on long sticks by Watcher personel dressed in geeky protective gear that may have helped in regards to radioactive dust but not whatever this mystic glow was. Dawnie was still insisting this energy had come out of her somehow. That originally she saw a tendril of the mystic force leave her fingers and reach out to grasp Buffy as she appeared to be sucked into a vortex now absent from the room. The Watchers were paying this little mind, but in the confusion Giles and Willow decided to bow out of the room briefly to research this possibility themselves, at the Westbury library.

Xander had had a first aid kit passed on to him so he could check his own scrapes and also attend to Buffy, who was still unconscious and floating, but otherwise didn't seem to be in immediate jeopardy. The first aid kit was now glowing as well, even when Xander walked away from it. Long tendrils of energy flowed between the threesome and the first aid kit, and most anything else Dawnie or Xander accidently touched, so by now a couple pieces of furniture and some of the walls were glowing a bit as well. Mostly the glows were in the shape of han