Lovely evocation of place, I could imagine sitting on that bus, walking those streets....
And a very nice picture of Xander grown up and facing truths. From But of course Xander was too proud to fly to L.A. ‘Too busy’, he called it. to
Xander swallows. Stores the memory away with the same care he always bestows on the slightly blurry photograph of Anya that he carries in his wallet. The continuum with canon is there, but moved on in life.
Very nice.