"That'd be the blood rushing to it," she whispered back, "a think I'm not certain happens to you under normal circum--" Well. It had to be an ear, didn't it? There Ethan hung and what should have been a terribly tense scene was shattered; her attention splintered away and and and...

And then the poor Langley dupe got sick. Buffy pulled away in anticipation of Jack's disgust.