Plus, having your own flesh and blood dying on you... gah! *wibbles s'more*

Also, had a random thought for a later scene, when Dawn goes off to do her immortalising 'thing': VK's got a kind of marker charm on her, so he knows she's safe, but when she undergoes whatever change it is that makes her immortal, she's changed in ways beyond his magic and the connection is severed, so um... yeah. He presumes she's toast.