Buffy looks on in awe at the blade imbedded in the rock and, to her surprise, she is able to pull the weapon forth. As beautiful as it is deadly, the weapon poses a number of questions for Giles and Willow, who can find no mention of it's origins and only know that it instills Buffy with a sense of great power. Only later, in a torch-lit tomb, does Buffy learn from a mysterious old woman that what she pulled form the stone is "A weapon... a scythe. Forged in secrecy for one" … to defeat the last pure demon who walked the earth. The old Guardian continues saying, "One way or another, it can only mean an end, is truly near..."