Gross, GROSS! But perfectly canonical: Buffy's been known to stick her thumbs in Gnarl's eyes to kill it, extremely gross too!

Thank you. That was pretty much my line of thought too; yeah, it's gross, but come on, demon guts are far less clean. ;-) This chapter is a bit short, I agree, but I had to end the previous chapter on a cliffhanger out of pure principle, and so this one had to carry us from that cliffhanger to the beginning of the end... There'll be more soon.