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It was nearly time for the next activity, and Griffin had gone to Azalea cabin to make sure her campers got to their places on time and safely. However, she couldn't find Felicity. She'd already recognized the girl's reputation as a bit of a scamp and troublemaker. Griffin dismissed it as kids being kids, but that was because at the moment, she didn't realize what little Lissy had in store for her counselors.

The junior counselor scratched her head and with a 'hmm' tried to think long and hard about where she'd be. She wasn't at the Azalea cabin, and she wasn't at the activity. Oh! She should check Hemlock cabin, just in case Lissy was looking for her the same time she was being looked for. Griffin walked into her cabin just as soon as Lissy had finished, and only saw the camper and the now empty jar.

"Lissy! There you are! I was looking for you. What's with the jar? Looking to catch some caterpillars, hm?" She smiled and figured that Lissy was doing as she'd done when she was younger, and would also collect a leaf and a stick so as to recreate its natural environment. "There's still some time left before your next activity. I can take you there now or we can go look for some caterpillars or butterflies!"

She was oblivious to the other creepy crawlies that were just waiting in her bed for her.

Aw, Lissy was so sweet and cute, well, at least today. Collecting caterpillars and butterflies and lightning bugs and shiny beetles. She really did look innocent right now. However, what she couldn't see were the worms crawling around under her covers. She'd have a ton of laundry to do tonight when she found them.

"Sure that'd be okay! And I'd love to help, that'd be so much fun!" She smiled and offered Lissy her hand so they could go outside together. "I know a great place to look! See, there's this one tree where all theses really fuzzy caterpillars all gather. I must have seen thirty- no- forty yesterday! You can catch a bunch and I'll pick some branches off the tree for your jar, alright?" Griffin smiled, happy to help.

It was a short walk to a large red oak tree, and the bark was covered in fuzzy caterpillars. They were brightly colored, and so weird-looking. Griffin bought her excited look hook, line, and sinker. She stood at the trunk of the tree and pulled off a caterpillar and handed it to Lissy.

"Oh hang on a second!" She just thought of how good of a photo op this would be. Nice pictures of the caterpillars, as well as some of Lissy (she'd been charged with taking pictures for parents). "I have to get something from my cabin, I'll be right back!"

She set off at a fast walk and walked back into Hemlock cabin. Her cabin was hanging from one of the bed posts, and she sat on her bed for a second to mess with its aperture and shutter speed.

And that's when she found them.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYAAAHHHHHHHHH."

Griffin screamed when she saw that worms and slugs were crawling in her sheets. She got off of the bed in a flash and patted down her shorts to make sure none had crawled into her clothes. She didn't hate bugs per say, but she didn't like slimy ones that got into her things.

Lissy. You got some 'splanin to do.

Griffin stormed out of Hemlock cabin and was very red in the face. To the close inspector, it almost looked like she was about to cry, too. She'd deny it, though. "LISSY. WHERE ARE YOU?"

She snapped her head back and forth looking for the camper, mad enough about the bed but feeling increasingly worse and worse about losing her, too. She only looked up when she felt something hit the top of her head. She brushed through her hair frantically, worried it was another worm, but it had just been an acorn. Was it shook loose by Lissy's climbing or did she throw it? Even if she was wrong, Griffin suspected the latter.

She laid eyes on the camper who was far above her. "Lissy, you get down here right now, or else I'll bring the Head Counselor to you." Her mean babysitter was showing. She was good with good children, but when kids were kids, she tended to sink to their level and fight back, but she had authority on her side. And she would use it- especially right now.

Griffin pouted at the tree-born camper. "Well there are rules about having to respect your counselors. I am your counselor, and you didn't respect me." She crossed her arm and tapped her foot. If it was a waiting game Lissy wanted, she could. Patience was one of her greatest virtues. However, she had a different plan.

"I will go get Head Counselor Kookaburra. She can have you on a bus headed home this afternoon!" She said it all without hesitation and with a great deal of authority. As much as she could muster. She didn't know if the last part was true, but Lissy probably didn't either. "You just stay there, Lissy. I'll be right back with Kookaburra."

Now if her plan worked, she'd have used some reverse-psychology. She figured Lissy would rebel, but even if she didn't then at least she'd still know where the kid was. Plus she'd fall out of the tree eventually on her own, right? Griffin walked off with her arms crossed and called out for the head counselor along the way. She waited until she passed behind a thick tree and she hid behind it so she could watch for Lissy's next move. And then, attack!