Haha, this sounds fantastic. Yeah, the epic Sam thread I think has landed Tara and Sam soundly in the "friends" category, so if you'd like that to attract Ruby's attention, that sounds good to me! She's... relatively open minded, between Anya and Spike being her... friends. Ish. Haha.

Because I'm only glancingly familiar with their canon, would it be fair to assume that when they meet in person, Tara would be able to tell she isn't human by her aura? Or would you like that to be blocked for the moment?