"Bye everyone! I gotta get to the meeting with Delphi. Katie, it was nice to meet you; give me your Discord or Steam username if you play games and would wanna with me sometime."

"Oh, sure, yeah. It's TribadistTrogolodyte."

"Niiiiiiiice. A fellow Hussie enjoyer?"

"I uuuh, kinda. I read a decent way in and honestly it felt like the animations were tests I had to study for by reading the pesterlogs, but the female trolls are hot."

"Legit. Hey, we should draw each other's trollsonas!"

"And cosplay them."

"Sorry, I would love to, but cons have all these rules about changing your skin color to appear as another race."

"That's not what that means and you know it. Also get in the fucking truck."

"I'm really sorry to disappoint both of you, but I can't draw for shit and have autism sensory issues about makeup."

(Author's note: in spite of the implications of the facecasts, the only one of them in makeup is Raven.)

"Legit."

While getting in the truck, Lauren says "Me too! Or, like, autism is a psyop, but I have a reasonable and normal reaction to goop on my face."

"I'm with you on psychiatry, but personally I find it useful to have a word to describe the thing I am besides 'tgirl-coded'."

Lauren nods.

"Katie, would you take the middle seat? You're the smallest."

Waow. What an invitation. "Yeah, good with me."

Gwen takes the driver's seat and Hope the passenger seat; Katie ends up in the back wedged between Raven and Lauren. Neither of them seem to at all mind being pressed up against her.

God this is so hot. She wants them to actually be into her so bad but she knows probably none of them are. To distract herself, she looks up the route on her phone. "Oh shit, we're going through Salt Lake City. Do the Mormons have any weird magic shit going on?"

"If they do, we don't know about it. There's little evidence either way on the existence of a capital-G God; a popular theory is if one exists they have...the thing the Greek gods do with split personality Roman aspects, but times a thousand, so much it impairs their ability to act in the world."

"Oh, huh. Yeah, if that's how it works, then that makes sense. Thanks, Martin Luther!"

"Thanks, Muhammad, I would say. An Abrahamic-centric view of monotheism makes sense, because number of believers matters and so does their relative standing on the world stage, but the fragmentation there very much didn't start with Luther."

"Anyways, the New Mexico desert is really pretty too."

"It's beautiful! I haven't been on a road trip out this way in forever, I'm so excited."

"The desert sucks."

"You think Missouri is fit for human habitation, so opinion discarded."