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“ Muttering fixes my brain.” Darwin said, responding to Mary’s comment as if that were the obvious explanation. And hey, it probably would’ve made perfect sense too if only he hadn’t left out about half reasoning behind it. Darwin might had explained himself – might have, but probably not – until he heard a comment that caught his attention.

“ Huh?” He said in bemusement, turning to the older boy (Jett) speaking to Raven. " Who is who's boyfriend?"

"Woah." There was a lot of bickering going on. She didn't quite see the point. Amy wasn't the type to just dive right into a debate (as she'd never won one before), and so she kept herself near Regina for the moment, her eyes still having a hard time avoiding Hawke and Anders...they sure did talk strangely. So video-game like, it was entrancing.

"O-oh! I'm Amy, Amy Flynn," she answered Regina. "Nice to meet you, at least if we survive this alien encounter business." Amy was taking it all in stride, but the longer that this situation lasted, the more unsettled she was becoming. It didn't help that she felt so vulnerable in her flimsy running outfit, when those other two were in home-made armor. As long as it didn't magically rain, she'd be ok.

Getting up on her feet, she realized just how shaky she was feeling. Whether it had been from that sudden dizzy spell before landing here, or just feeling nervous about all these strangers around her, she wasn't certain.

"A dream," she said, as reassuring as she could. "A strange one, but simply a dream." The girl lowered her hands, and Marienrode offered her a reassuring smile. As the student talked herself through it, Marienrode dropped from her kneeling position into a more comfortable seated position; the pencil skirt didn't offer much in the way of movement, but she made herself comfortable with her legs tucked up under her. "I understand." Of course she did. Normally her dreams were much more mundane. Showing up to class without her glasses on, and things such as that. Poor performance reviews.

She sighed, and rubbed the girl's shoulder. "I cannot tell you that I am privy to that information," the teacher told Sheila, keeping her tone low and level. "Don't fear. You aren't required to interact with those whom you do not wish to. So stay here." After a moment, she decided that in space or dreams or whatever this was, she had no need to stand on formalities. "My name is Marienrode," she said. "I teach at Hillworth. Do you think you could calm down enough to cease crying?"

It did not take much effort to ignore the uncouth child (Bela) who made assumptions when she had no place to. The fact that she assumed Marienrode was a teacher and associated that poorly proved that whatever school the child attended certainly had no dearth of poor instructors. A good one, such as Marienrode, would not have created such distrust in a child.

She absolutely had to be a student at Meadowview, like the boy in a swimming suit(Wallace) who was confronting someone who seemed to be an enemy of his. Truly embarrassing, she decided. Meadowview hadn't had an excellent English instructor in years.

Also on the figurative list of persons to ignore was Gilbert Hennessy. The man lived in the apartment above her own with his cousin, and she held no real ill will towards him; she simply didn't have any emergency training, and had to calm a frightened child. "We'll wake up soon. For now, we should perambulate more towards the center of this place." Another encouraging smile, and Marienrode stood, offering both hands to the frightened girl.

Carolynn had been seated right in front of the computer, trying again to see how long she could sit through Nyan Cat. She was at 25.4 minutes when she felt like she was going to vomit. One second she was turning away from the screen and keyboard-- The next she was sitting on her very own Rainbow Road with 48 or more other people. None of whom she recongnized at all.

And to think she'd just been wondering when she was going to be part of Destiny City's magic shennanigans. Smiling to herself, she rose and looked about before saying to whomever was closest: "Quick! Grab my hair!"

"Hey, I was sitting at home beading for Thursday when I sell asleep and got pulled in to this dream, so don't go all 'we drew lots' on me," There was a hand on one hip and a finger waving through the air as the would-be gypsy corrected the other LARPer.

ANd people thought sport rivalries were bad....

Well, she at least had to be blessed for one thing. She was not in the middle of helping a patient while she was... taken somewhere strange. In face, she had just left a local cafe with a coffee in tow (tall mocha latte, skinny) and just took a sip. Mmm, coffee was a guilty pleasure of hers... one that she tried to avoid but today was just a PERFECT day to do so.

Glancing down at her free hand, saffron colored eyes narrowed at the time. She had not slept in a while, just getting off a shift... A thought of sleep had only a second to spark in her mind before she left out a gasp. In a single blink of an eye, she was once out on the street... and the next she was standing in some techno colored dream world filled with children.

Well, mostly children.

Her mouth gaped open like a fish. Her first instinct was thinking maybe over work and heat exhaustion had finally caused her to pass out on the road. Yeah, that was a nurse for you. Looking down she tried to catch her watch again... no the time had not changed. She did not... feel like she passed out. Then again if your in a coma like state, did you feel?

She pinched herself.

"OW!" She mumbled out, rubbing her arm where she pinched with her now free arm. It was not until that point that she realized her coffee was not missing. Well hell, not only was she in a strange..place with what looked like 40+ children, she did not even have her coffee to comfort her.

Life sucked.