This Is Less Of A Shock Than It Could Be, Really

[maggie_of_the_owls]

Daphne is not in the relatively safe areas of her hometown or college campus, so it isn't really all that surprising when she suddenly is in a random forest instead of walking back to her car.
It's a little surprising; normally she is permitted to enter random forests of her own will. But not that much.
She starts walking, looking for whatever inane plot she will be required to participate in/thwart this time.
Eventually she sees a cottage. She makes for that--random houses in the woods are prime weird shit locales.
She knocks on the door. "Excuse me! I don't know what's going on here but I'd rather get it over with sooner rather than later so I can go home!"

Comments

[imeanforever]

For which Promise is grateful.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

But eventually they do get there without accidentally envassaling anyone.

[imeanforever]

And Promise closes her gate, then says, "Done."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"So those goons can't get at you. You said they were Thorn's vassals, who's Thorn? Is that the guy who had you before Yellow?"

[imeanforever]

"Yes."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"...I still agree with you that going after him at the time would have been a terrible idea, but I do have friends who are magic users."

[imeanforever]

"What kind of magic? If it's different enough..."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"I think it's pretty different. I can ask Overbite's brother to come down, he's a magic user. And a huge nerd. You two can compare magic systems."

[imeanforever]

"That sounds fun. And maybe if it's different enough it could get around Thorn's sorcerers."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That was my thought too. I think Jawbreaker knows a little, he's not anywhere near as good as--ooh I'm going to have to come up with something to call him, if I try to keep saying 'Overbite's Brother' I'm going to slip--anyway he's not as good, he pretty much couldn't be, but it's probably enough to tell if they're very different or not."

[imeanforever]

"Underbite," suggests Promise.

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"That would be...pretty insulting actually. Oh, Overbite and her brother are vampires. 'Overbite' is a reference to her fangs, but vampires only have top fangs and not also bottom ones like some animals do, so calling him 'Underbite' would imply that his fangs were so small even his humanish lower canines were larger than his fangs."

[imeanforever]

"Oh. Not that then, I suppose. Usually fairies pick our own nicknames, you could ask him what he wants to be called."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yeah. I'll email him when we get back to my room. And then I'll go fetch Jawbreaker."

[imeanforever]

"Does Jawbreaker actually break jaws?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"No. There's a kind of candy called a jawbreaker because you're supposed to suck on it instead of chewing and it's supposed to be so hard that if you try to bite it anyway it'll break your jaw, and they're one of his favorite things."

[imeanforever]

"Oh."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"You are not the first person to ask that question."

[imeanforever]

"The candy isn't very popular?"

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"It's fairly popular, but before he got his act together he used to be a member of a particular cultural group known for violence."

[imeanforever]

"Oh."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Yeah. Plus the story of how I had to break a chainsaw murderer's face with a baseball bat to keep him from murdering me with a chainsaw didn't help much."

[imeanforever]

"I... see."

[maggie_of_the_owls]

"Getting dropped in Fairyland was pretty far from the first perilous thing to happen to me."

[imeanforever]

"I didn't realize the mortal world was so dangerous for mortals apart from the whole mortality thing."