Buffy and company meet Alice

The address they were looking for really was close to Sunnydale High -- so close that they could have walked there if they had chosen to. Buffy could not help thinking that she might have walked by that house a dozen times when she was strolling through the neighborhood but not once did she think to stop and try to see what was inside.

When Wesley knocked on the front door, a middle-aged woman with dishwater blonde hair answered.

"Who is it?" she asked.

"Excuse me," said Wesley, "but we're looking for a woman named Alice the Mage."

"Oh, really?" asked the dishwater blonde.

"Do you know where we might find her?" asked Wesley.

"Who wants to know?" asked the dishwater blonde.

"We have a friend who has been affected by a spell," said Wesley. "And we were hoping that she might be able to help."

"Come inside," said the dishwater blonde. "I want to see this 'friend' of yours."

Cordelia and Willow followed Wesley into the woman's house where Cordelia reached into her purse and placed a miniature naked Buffy Summers on a nearby coffee table.

The woman took one look at Buffy and said, "Yeah, I can help her."

"So you're Alice the Mage?" asked Wesley.

"Don't sound so amazed," said the dishwater blonde. "Female mages aren't that rare. Especially in Sunnydale. Of course, breaking another person's spell won't be easy. Nor will it be cheap. It will cost you at least $500 to have your friend restored to her original size."

"That's... rather expensive, isn't it?" asked Wesley.

"Not in my business," said the woman who called herself Alice.

"How do we know you can break the spell?" asked Cordelia.

"Cordelia!" exclaimed Buffy.

"No, wait," said Alice. "The girl has a valid point."

Alice then said a brief chant and made some gestures with her hands.

There was a puff of smoke and then suddenly Buffy's naked breasts shrank back to their original size. Or at least that's how they seemed to everyone but Buffy.

"I could have sworn they were a bit larger than that," said Buffy.

"Quiet, Buffy," said Cordelia. "I'm negotiating. That er--thing you just did doesn't prove a damn thing -- much less give us a reason why we should pay you."

"You dare to question my abilities after what you had just seen with your own eyes?" asked Alice.

"Hey, for all I know, that could have been just smoke and mirrors," said Cordelia.

"I'm pretty sure it's not," said Buffy, feeling her own breasts.

"Hush, Buffy," said Cordelia. "Anyway, I refuse to let Wesley pay you for anything until you can prove to me without a doubt that you have the ability to restore my friend Buffy to her proper size."

"You want me to prove to you, eh?" asked Alice.

"Yes, I do," said Cordelia.

"Very well, " said Alice.

Again Alice said a brief chant and made some gestures with her hands.

Again there was a puff of smoke and when the smoke cleared...

Cordelia looked around and saw that she was now as naked as Buffy. And no wonder. Cordelia had shrank to Buffy's size and was now too small to wear her own clothes.

"How's that for proof?" asked Alice.