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Talk about deja vu.

Just what had happened exactly? Where did that creature go? How were these people alive? Surely that hadn't been all in their heads, right?

As if to confirm it with himself, Ryan glanced down at his clothes, noting the tears in several places, where the creature had struck him during the battle. All of them were still there. So it did happen. But if it had been real then, just how did everything--clothes aside, return back to the way it had been, prior to the attack?

"We're not going crazy, are we?" He asked, looking at the others with a concerned expression.

Jude looked down at his torn clothes and otherwise rumpled form and he was pretty sure he was going to have very real bruises later.

"...Don't think about it too hard. I'm trying not to. Whatever that was it is why we are here." He explained simply as if to try not just to simplify it for himself but for Maebe as well.

The young man flinched when Maebe's other companion pretty much fell out of his chair. He kind of stared at the green haired one with a sort of blank expression.

"Everything in one place?" In a manner of speaking.

"I check," he muttered weakly, patting himself down in various key points to make sure blood didn't come gushing out at the slightest touch. The sarcasm went whooshing over his head in preparation to enter orbit around the planet. At no point had he actually gotten off of Maebe. "Uh. Think so."

Yom let out a small tinkling laugh inside his head. This was about the most active she'd been in a while.

Jude let out a soft sigh as he watched Maebe and Lucky for a long moment. If they had enough energy to be weirded or just plain old disoriented, then all was well.

He gave a small nod, "Good, good. Would hate for something terrible to happen to you." His tone was dry and quiet as ever, and it made it hard to discern if he actually cared or not.

It was like the longer he kept to himself the more sarcasm he seemed to absorb.

There was an actual tiny smile on his face, a subtle quirk of the lips. Relief in his eyes was hidden by the fact that he kept them downcast and focused on the food for now.

Maebe lifted her head, chewing on her bun, just long enough to catch that look on Jude's face. She was hidden from view by most of Lucky's half-collapsed body, but when she realized Jude was actually just the slightest bit concerned with their welfare, her face lit up in a grin.

Was this what making friends was like?

She reached out and grabbed another bun, then reached over and put it (gently) in Jude's mouth. That was her way of caring. By stuffing your face.

She gave Lucky half of her bun, made sure he didn't choke on it, and then put her head back on his shoulder.

Well there went Heidi's only dress. She stared at the table in front of them, looking to Maebe, Jude, and Lucky on one side of her and Tuck on the other. She poked at Lucky to make sure he was real, and then she reached over him and poked Maebe's shoulder. Yup. Real. "What...just happened..." It was like everything was normal again...except some of the hunters looked a little worse for wear. Her own dress was pretty wrecked, she wouldn't be able to wear it again for a date after this. She frowned. "Aw, man. I kinda liked this dress.." She supposed she could get a new one sometime.

If it weren't for the state of the hunters around her she would think she'd fallen asleep at the dinner table and dreamed it all up. Her own dinner even seemed to be picking up where it had left off. She picked up her fork and poked at the food, fully expecting it to come alive like that scene in Beetlejuice. Nothing happened. Okay..it was safe.

She turned to Tuck first, "Are you okay?" Heidi asked with a frown, looking him up and down until she heard vague mumbling on his other side. Oh..Smart Girl. "Is..she okay?"

One moment, they were fighting a titan in the dark, in chaos and disaster. Then reality hiccuped into grey, into a familiar-unfamiliar figure, and then --

-- back to the table, as though the fight had never happened. Ferros was in his totem form again, and a really nice steak sat on the table in front of Jordan. The jagged tears in his jacket from the monster's spines were still there, however, and Jordan blinked, shaking his head. It wasn't a good idea to think too hard about they whys and hows of weird s**t, because the answer was invariably magic and the paradox could give you a headache trying to figure it out.

Much as he loved Sun Division, he did wish sometimes that he had the time to research and train to understand Fear and Insanity better. Knowing that things worked but not knowing why bothered him. He glanced sideways at Rep, regretting quietly and briefly that it hadn't been him transferred instead.

But there were more important things to think about and deal with. Very quietly, he asked Harrison and Rep, "Was that Excalibur?"