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[Waking up unceremoniously in Luceti with no idea of where she is and what she is doing there is of course a disorienting experience. Anya finds herself out on the beach, lying prone on the sand. It could be Sunnydale, except the area she's been deposited in doesn't have much surrounding it besides sand and blue skies.

Her back hurts, and by the time she sits herself up and reaches back there...] Wings? Is this a joke?

[Some more time passes with her half-ranting to herself, trying to get oriented and squinting at the placement of the sun. She almost misses the fact that the journal is there completely, save when she finally starts to walk and nearly trips over the thing, half buried in the sand.]

[Accidental voice]

- Ow! I have sand in places that I don't want to think about, there's no sign of anyone - what is this, a book? I don't even get a pair of shoes, or even suntan lotion, I just get a lousy book? [She turns the journal over in her hands, pages rustling, her image still not visible, though there's the sound of the ocean's waves in the background.] ... my name is on this book. This just entered a new level of creepy.

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Yeah, but we can't see it.

You weren't exactly supposed to hear it, either. How was I supposed to know this was a half-assed communication device?

What, you've never seen a book used as a stand-in cell phone? Clearly you need to get out more.

You think something like this is marketable?

To the oldtimer crowd, maybe. But not only does that demographic not exist here, but everybody already has one.

I can't seem to decide whether that's lame or convenient. Majority seems to think that it's important, though.

The majority has this as their only way of entertaining themselves. Sad, right?

What, they don't have TVs?

The number of TVs in this town can be counted on one hand.

That's not something you hear everyday.

That depends on the century and the world you're in. But either way, it's plain un-American.

They used to have radio dramas before the TV, do the books get used like that? Or is it just 'Our Boring Lives, listen in to our private conversations for free'?

Bingo. Tragic, isn't it?

Mm. So what else passes for entertainment here? Clearly, I need to be prepared.

There's always gratuitous amounts of sex. It's the hobby that keeps on giving.

Yes, it's a great hobby. Especially when it's with Xander.

... you mean Buffy's friend?

[he'd never talked to the guy, but he's head about him and he seemed very, very sad.]

He's tall, with dark hair. Good with fixing broken windows. He only has one eye now. That friend?

Oh. Right. That guy. You may be overselling him. He wasn't that tall.

I never oversell. Unless there's a profit to be had.

That's my own personal philosophy as well. Shame there's no profit to be made here.

What do you mean?

There's a whole lot of no money in this place. It's not even a prison economy, because even the cigarettes are free. It's full blown Commie-land here.

No money? But... there has to be money!

There's barely even a barter system. Capitalism is dead here, babe.

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