Xander... frowned, actually. "Yeah, I--" He shook his head. "I know nobody here would care? Hell, maybe that's half the problem. It's a little--"

He shook his head, not lacking for words, just for the right ones. "Fandom's kinda... not the real world, you know? And... it'd be real easy to just go with that, what happens in Fandom stays in Fandom yay -- but then where does that leave me when I leave? I'm not gonna be here all my life; I'm not even gonna be here next year."