New Moon ☽ Text to All ☽ If you could only see

[whosafraidofme]

[Outside the station, having been given the rundown, keys to her new crib, and her fancy new phone, Ruby grumbles to herself that they didn't give her a jacket to go with it. She rolls down the sleeves of her overshirt then begins fiddling with the cell phone. Oh, hey. Texting! She totally knows how to do that. And will be faster than calling each

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[softenedbyme]

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A flying carpet might have been more fun. They don't really tell us how it worked.

[whosafraidofme]

So we all just...woke up here? Has anyone gotten sick after getting here?

[Because there is always the possibility of puking your guts out because of magic travel. She's heard of it happening.]

[softenedbyme]

I think if they did it's because they were sick before? Or because of the flu.

[She's pretty sure that can happen.]

[whosafraidofme]

Oh. Okay. Thanks. So I got the short version. Place called Mandalus. Yadda yadda yadda. Is it true we were brought here to fight?

[softenedbyme]

...Yes.

[whosafraidofme]

Fight...what exactly? Injustice? Goblins? Lawyers? ....bad hair days?

[Because lord knows she's had plenty. Bad hair days. Not lawyers.]

[softenedbyme]

[That makes her laugh for a moment, although Red can't hear it.]

Monsters? Invading armies? Who knows what will come next.

[whosafraidofme]

[Her next text is after what we call in the writing biz, a pregnant pause. For obvious reasons.]

Monsters? What sort of monsters?

[softenedbyme]

Zombies, vampires, werewolves? Others too, but I don't know what they were called.

[whosafraidofme]

[Even longer pause. Sob. A ribbon of fear stabs Ruby right in the gut. She hasn't changed since the curse broke. But that's because there hasn't been a full moon yet. Still. Maybe the people that brought her here messed up. Maybe she's what the people here are meant to fight.]

Oh.

[softenedbyme]

They're gone now, but something always happens after a couple of weeks.

[whosafraidofme]

Does it happen, like...say, once a month?

[Oh god oh god oh god oh god.]

[softenedbyme]

Uh, not really? And the monsters only came once. If it's like before they won't be back.

[whosafraidofme]

Oh. Okay.

[Still internally freaking out, though.]

[softenedbyme]

I've been here ... a long time. Do you have other questions?

[whosafraidofme]

Um...where do we live? Do we have to have jobs?