Battle of the Bands Campfire, Early Sunday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

Clockwork spiders were awful.

This was what Kate had learned yesterday, when she'd spent seemingly half the night trying to barricade her alcove so that they wouldn't get in. That, in turn, meant she hadn't gotten to bed until way late, which then explained why she now looked like she had just barely woken up even though it was already the afternoon.

Technically she still felt like she should've been laying low and avoiding some people, but right now she couldn't bring herself to give a fuck about that. Sitting by her cabin's campfire, she was having a Pop Tart for breakfast, texting her brother, and enjoying the campgrounds being spider-free again.

[ooc: Open!]

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[vanillajello]

"I train with a knife in the salle several times every week," Kate replied with an unimpressed look. "Which is just a minor part of just how tough I am."

[dollpocalypse]

...Oh.

Well, then. That was pretty tough.

Although he did feel compelled to defend his previous stance, so he wasn't exactly going to concede the point now. "Oh, wow, a knife," he said, waving a hand. "You're so badass."

[vanillajello]

"And you jumped on to a log," Kate pointed out, "apparently thinking that might have magically protected you if I had still been a vampire."

So, his opinion on toughness and badassery maybe wasn't the most valuable one.

[dollpocalypse]

Nope, it was not. Especially since, you know, he wouldn't know the first thing to do with a knife.

"Hey," he said, holding up a hand. "We're talking about you."

[vanillajello]

"And I'm questioning your right to judge anything about me."

So there, as they said.

[dollpocalypse]

"Can I judge the stuff that's for sure already happened?" he clarified. "Like the fact that alternate-you bit me the other day?"

[vanillajello]

"That wasn't me," Kate pointed out again, sobering some. Things that kind of made her want to hurl could have that effect. "So I don't know why you'd judge that in direct relation to me. Though I'm still sorry about that."

[dollpocalypse]

"But," he argued, "I can judge the fact that in some universe, through some combination of circumstances, your response to seeing me was to go for my neck. So."

That was judgeable, in his opinion.

[vanillajello]

"I was a vampire," she said, calmly even if it might have been a little forced. "That's what vampires do."

[dollpocalypse]

"Yeah, but why were you a vampire? Are you secretly a Moonlight fangirl? And how come you had to be an evil bitey one instead of a civilized one?"

All good questions. Except maybe the last one.

[vanillajello]

"Because where that version of me came from, this entire island was ruled by vampires," she replied flatly. "Because I'd stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time and gotten fangs for my troubles."

[dollpocalypse]

"How do you know?" he pressed. "If she isn't you, then how come you remember all that?"

Curious Topher strikes again.

[vanillajello]

"Because I was inside her head the whole weekend." There was an unspoken 'dumbass' at the end of that sentence, yes. "And because we had people get pulled into that very same universe a couple of years back."

[dollpocalypse]

...

"Uh-huh," Topher said skeptically. "Sure. Okay."

[vanillajello]

"Really? That's gonna make you give me a sceptical face?" Kate asked. "'Cause you can ask any of this year's seniors, we were all there when people started taking comanaps and slipping off to another universe."

[dollpocalypse]

"I will," Topher decided. "Ask, I mean. We'll see."

Except by now he believed her, and that was... weird. He definitely didn't want to wake up one morning and find himself craving blood or brains or any weird shit like that.

[vanillajello]

Few people did. He was probably sharing that sentiment with most of Fandom's populace.

"Some of them are gonna get cranky about talking about it, though," Kate added, as an idle but fair warning. "It was a seriously messed up time for everyone."