Dungeon Residential Camps, Somewhere, Wednesday, Day One of Two

[not_a_whiner]

The first day had been eminently entertaining - but the Toymaker was already growing bored. He reached in and tweaked the strings of his tiny universe, adding subtle changes: speeding up time, moving hallways. One of the two might be more noticeable than the other, but he looked forward to seeing if Fandom's finest felt the time discrepancy.

He split this day in two. Bound the pathways of the first and second camps together. And sat back.

The maze changed. That was what it was built to do. Its denizens would just have to find ways to cope with it.

[camp one | camp two | camp three | ooc ]]

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Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

"I'm cold," Karla said, trying not to sound sulky. "I'm still naked under your coat and that fire doesn't do much for the chill in the air."

You were welcome for that mental image, Jono.

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

Jono was cleaning that coat with fire if they ever got out of here.

"Well, there was a room full of bags of clothes and things I stumbled across earlier. If you don't mind maternity wear, it'd be located in my alcove, in th'bag that has 'Mass-Murderer' scrawled across it in large, fancy lettering."

Jonothon wasn't in the mood to take shit from his emotional baggage, today. He'd just grabbed the first bag with useful contents and wandered off.

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

"I'll get over there in a minute," Karla mumbled, not actually meaning that at all. But it would maybe stop Jono from nagging or whatever. "Emotional baggage again? Where'd that come from?"

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

"Hell if I know," he sighed, leaning against the wall a little too heavily. "Likely th'same place as the entire bloody room that housed a version of Fandom populated by vampires. There was another door I wandered by, but it was locked, couldn't get it open. Probably for th'best. It smelled of rot."

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

Karla shuddered; she was hoping he would chalk it up to hearing about a room that smelled of rot rather than a reminder of the vampires.

"So the rooms change," she said, more to herself than him. "Good to know."

Beat.

"You went through the vampire door, too?"

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

Jono shook his head a little, looking... slightly disturbed, at best.

"I didn't, no. Ran into somebody who did, though."

He gave his wrist an idle rub. Raven had healed the puncture wounds there, but it was difficult to wrap his head around letting somebody drink his blood. Even somebody that he was still fairly fond of.

"Too, luv?"

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

"Lots of people did."

That wasn't a lie, even. She was just being chary with the truth.

"Did they bite you?" She was looking at the way he was rubbing at his wrist. There were no marks, but...he couldn't leave it alone. That was the way that Jono dealt with things that bothered him. He poked and prodded at it until it either stopped hurting or he just went numb.

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

"I offered," he admitted, glancing down at his wrist. "It was that, or let her continue to starve, and I'd rather not have people sharing this mess of a place with a vampire driven to madness with bloodlust, if I can at all help it."

You know. Just a vampire. Somebody or other.

"You went into the room."

It wasn't even a question.

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

Which meant that Karla didn't really have to answer it, did she? So that kind of casual shrug (followed up by a hastily-hidden wince) would more than serve?

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

"Let's see what they did to you, luv." It was said gently, perhaps more gently than he'd said anything in a long while. She was hiding. He... didn't like to see that. "You got out alive. I won't yell."

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

Karla looked away from him, down to the ground, but pushed the collar out of the way, enough for Jono to see her blackened eye, her bruised cheek, her slightly swollen nose. She was glad that he wasn't Dinah, wouldn't read more into those injuries that that they simply were.

"And then there's my throat," she said. "I got bit."

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

He saw them. Didn't like them, but he saw them. And he nodded a little.

"Only bitten?"

She didn't look as though she'd been turned. There was something about the sight of a vampire that made his insides twist on a good day. But checking, at this point, seemed... imperative.

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

"Only bitten," Karla agreed with a nod, her face still downcast. "I gouged out his eye while he was feeding on me. Crude, but effective."

Especially considering Karla on her best day was barely equal with Ender on his worst.

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

"Good." Jono was silent for a moment, and then he nodded toward her neck. "And that'll heal cleanly? Th'best I can offer to try to clean that out with is the water from th'drinking fountain. Not certain if it's particularly clean, but I imagine clean drinking water is, at this point, the least of our concerns."

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[glacial_queen]

"I'm hoping it should heal up well. It's a heavy-movement area, which means it will likely open up a few more times before it scabs over enough. It may scar."

It would likely scar. Karla had fair skin and couldn't heal. But she'd deal with that later. Because what was a little wounded vanity, really?

Re: Camp Two - Alcoves

[furnaceface]

Karla and Jono could be partners in looking in the mirror and wincing from here until the end of time. Wouldn't that be fun?

"Scars add personality," he quipped, though there wasn't much in the way of mirth in that statement. He'd walked around with scars as plain as day burned right into his face for years. He was confident she could manage. "If you need something to bandage that up with, I have plenty of spare cloth, at least. It's not exactly proper first-aid, but it's probably better than nothing."