This was excellent.

I'd previously only drawn a negative link between Dawn and the potentials - the idea that a big part of why Buffy wouldn't let herself get to close to her slayer army was that she felt she couldn't risk falling into a Weight of the World like state every time she inevitably lost one of them. But I like this positve version of things much better. I also like Kennedy except for that scene in Touched where she seems to be channeling Tara.