Ed catches sight of Buffy staring at Dawn, and a little pang zings through his heart. He tries to imagine being made to forget who Al is, and why he's important to Ed. It's difficult to even contemplate, partially because he can't really picture it. For the moment, he doesn't say anything, not wanting to intrude on her. After all, he doesn't know her very well. At all, really.

"That emissary left because—apparently—she was unwilling to agree to even the perfectly reasonable precaution of not allowing April to see Maloker without back-up," Cipher Nine notes. "But if what Ember said was true, and April's Voices come from Maloker, then she should be able to use them to contact him, or at least to find him, correct?"