"You have no idea who's out there, who you're meeting, and what kind of people you can get yourself involved in," Buffy explained and crossed her arms across her chest, not even thinking about how the similarities between sisters might have looked.
There were things that went bump in the night, things that she learned were real that were never supposed to be real, and it was one thing if Buffy herself was smack-dab in the middle of it. It's a completely different story that Dawn is amongst the crazy, and the thing is she didn't even know what kind of crazy. Buffy didn't even know if Dawn would even dream; she dreamt of her family, in the other world, and her parents stayed the same.