Second Drag: Video

[papiliocaeruleo]

Right. So.

[Chloe is outside somewhere, probably the garden if the greenery around her is any indication. She's got a cigarette between her fingers and takes a drag before she keeps speaking, smoke curling out from between her lips.]

Who of you chucklefucks actually celebrates Thanksgiving? Or something close to it? 'cause I'unno about you but I'm seriously craving some bombass turkey and pumpkin pie.

[Another drag, a breath out.]

We should do something about that.

Comments

[dragon_blossom]

Oh heck yeah, we could use something fun like that around here. ...do we have pumpkin pie filling?

[ Or just whole pies? Someone here know how to make pie crust maybe? ]

Name's Marina by the way. New here.

[papiliocaeruleo]

There's a guy who offered to make pies!

[They've got that covered thanks to Lance.]

[dragon_blossom]

Oh, good. Just pumpkin, or...?

[ Not that she can complain about just that. ]

[papiliocaeruleo]

Probably more? Maybe? ... I didn't ask. He just said "pie" and I said "Hell yes".

[dragon_blossom]

I mean, that's good, that's good...

[ Marina someone is baking you pie PLEASE maybe don't complain? ]

[papiliocaeruleo]

[Marina pls.]

Either way I think there's at least a few people trying to get in to the spirit. That means there's gonna be at least some food.

[dragon_blossom]

Thank goodness. It was weird doing it in the southern hemisphere.

[papiliocaeruleo]

Southern hemisphere? Where are you from?

[dragon_blossom]

I'm from the USA but I've been living in New Zealand.

[papiliocaeruleo]

Whoaaaaa... that's a hell of a jump across the ocean. What dragged you all the way over there?

[dragon_blossom]

The United States are kinda... uh... messed up. And we were looking for somewhere really peaceful and quiet after fighting off an alien invasion, and New Zealand agreed to let us live there and leave us alone...

[papiliocaeruleo]

... an alien invasion. [Despite being in a castle in a completely different world from the one Chloe spent eighteen years in, she's still having trouble accepting that aliens and the like can be A Thing.]

[dragon_blossom]

If you think it sounds crazy imagine being in the middle of it.

[papiliocaeruleo]

Shit, no thanks. I had a hard enough time dealing with Max's timey-whimey bullshit, and I couldn't even see most of it happening.

[dragon_blossom]

Time travel? Even I never had to worry about that.

[papiliocaeruleo]

I still don't know how she got that power. The only way I even knew she wasn't just pulling my leg was by having her show me a few things with it, like guessing what was in my pockets and what was going to happen in a certain time frame.

I'm pretty damn sure that no one else in our crappy town had some crazy hidden power. Just her.

[dragon_blossom]

So, not really a superhero story then. You shoulda seen all the people just poof! Getting powers where I was from.

[papiliocaeruleo]

Nope, just a story of two losers stuck in a shitty town waiting for the end of the world...

[That's... ominous. And yet she doesn't elaborate.]

That sounds pretty crazy to witness.