Long story short? Someone got brainwashed into trying to exterminate us all.

[ faith shrugs-- she can acknowledge that she's terrible at exposition, but this time the story sounds close enough to home to make it clear she's purposely withholding details. this hurts to remember. it had been one thing to hear angel's voice come from twilight's masked face -- another to juggle his redemption arc with taking care of her squad. ]

Once the dust cleared, we were pretty depleted. A lot of slayers with serious baggage -- lot of survivor's guilt. Fortunately, I got some experience with that.