"I'm sorry," Buffy says at once, not quite a knee-jerk response but certainly automatic, her voice breaking softly at the end. The suggestion alone is hard to handle, reluctantly reminding her of what it was like to nearly lose Dawn, and how she would have jumped at any chance to save her. How she did jump at the chance, quite literally, and has never regretted it since. She regretted coming back, regretted almost everything she did in the wake of her resurrection, but never the sacrifice itself, that part was never negotiable. For all the time she's spent in churches and cemeteries, Buffy still knows very little about religion, about the Bible, and she wonders what Ishiah might think of such a sacrifice. They say suicide is a sin regardless of the situation, but they're also pretty big on Jesus' sacrifice, so maybe there's a loophole somewhere in there. Mostly, she wonders if Ishiah would do the same himself, but it's not the kind of question one can easily blurt out.

"We can move off the subject, if you'd prefer," she suggests, admittedly a bit uncomfortable herself. Too many emotions and all the time in the world to dwell make for rather unhealthy combinations. "Besides, I just asked, like, twenty questions, you deserve a turn, too."