Short thin blonde: “hi…, I’m Buffy Summers; I am the battle team leader, just call me Buffy”

Redhead: “hi there, I’m Willow Rosenberg, call me Will or Willow; I work with computers and witchcraft”

Brunette: “hey…, my name is Faith Lehane… who cares, just Faith for you; I do the same than Buffy, but she is still the boss… (whispering) for now…”

Tall brunet boy: “I am Xander, Xander Harris; I do a little bit of everything”

Short blonde boy: “Daniel Osbourne, just call me Oz…, I’m a werewolf”

Louise: “I am Louise Rossi, I’m a biochemical engineer everybody calls me Louise and I want to introduce you all the member of our group, starting with the board of projects”

Sharon, Angus, Kit and Melvin introduced themselves and then starting with the leaving group, the students did the same. Kit had prepared early three tables with food and drinks for the students, and she has refilled them and offered to the newcomers, who now are eating ‘fresh food’ and not the can or dried food they use to consume in their ‘home’. For the members of the board of the projects, the idea was to make people of both sides feel comfortable; after all, they are going to expend several weeks and months together; however, Giles has a new request for Melvin and Louise.

Giles: “I wanted to talk to you before, but just knew this morning; the guys of the group asked me something…, please don’t take it wrong, but they have been through a lot and they are always a little suspicious about new people…”

Louise: “would you like to talk in private?”

Giles: “yes, please”

Louise, Sharon, Angus, Kit, Melvin, and Giles went to a small room inside the lab to talk.

Giles: “Buffy and, indeed, all the team believe that someone should be here and someone else should be coming and going from here to the wormhole where we live, they decided that person will be Willow, and I will be coming and going; would be any problem with that?”

Louise: “no…, as a matter of fact, we have a request too…”

Flashback the night before at Louise and Sharon’s house

Sharon has been worried about the girls going with strangers inside the wormholes, especially for her daughter and had talked about that with Louise, who reluctantly has allowed Sharon to continue with her proposal, and this evening in their house’s living room they are gathered with the rest of board of Louise’s projects to make the last adjustments for the next day meeting, Louise recklessly trying to grab the bull by its horns.