Thanks for commenting, sweetie! I do think that Wood is altogether too "evolved" to realize how isolated he's become. I figure Lorne and Charles are just the thing to break him out of his shell.

I know my vision of the future of the Council in the Ring On It 'verse is similar to the Rulesverse, though the relationships are pretty different. (Spike's human, there might not be an Illyria [pity!], Gunn is definitely NOT dead...altogether more fluffy, I'm afraid.) I hope you're okay with it!