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On Monday, Bella arrives at school completely and stably human shaped, with everything she has learned about critters (except for her own species, which she isn't liable to forget) written down as margin notes on a page reminding her to ask Darren about D&D and filler decoy notes about that. She's probably going to have invent an actual cipher alphabet or something eventually but for the time being she thinks this will probably do for casual inspection.
She sits next to Darren in English.
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shesepankh
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They arrive at the Sanders' home. There's Savannah, sitting on the porch and waiting impatiently.
morethanimaginary
"Are you two okay?" she demands of them, immediately, barely even giving them time to get out of the car.
castmyown
Darren winces. "A lava monster thing attacked us, we fled to the ocean, I used magic to hit it with a miniaturized tidal wave. Bella healed me, and now I am fine."
morethanimaginary
"You needed healing?" demands Savannah. She looks like she wants to interrogate Darren, but then pulls him into a hug.
"How bad was it?"
"How bad was it?"
morethanimaginary
Savannah releases Darren from hugs, and says in an angry but audibly wavering voice, "Don't you ever do that to me again. I was scared shitless."
steppingup
Vernon is wisely going to let this swear slide, considering the circumstances.
morethanimaginary
Savannah nods and then releases Bella from the hug.
"... Damn waterworks," she mumbles, wiping away what may or may not be tears. "Darren! Is the thing - whatever it is, is it dead?"
"... Damn waterworks," she mumbles, wiping away what may or may not be tears. "Darren! Is the thing - whatever it is, is it dead?"
shesepankh
"He got it good," Bella says. "Under pressure. It was cool if you ignore the screaming terror."
castmyown
And the fact that he got himself caught in it, too. Not that he will tell his sister that.
morethanimaginary
"Good brother. Knew you had it in you. I," she declares, "will bake you cookies."
shesepankh
Bella snorts.
"I need to call my dad to come get me. Savannah, we're going to the Avalon Saturday, do you want to come?"
"I need to call my dad to come get me. Savannah, we're going to the Avalon Saturday, do you want to come?"
morethanimaginary
She glances between all present and says definitively, "Yes. I am going to be Darren's lady-shaped shadow for the next month."
steppingup
Vernon retrieves a phone and offers it to Bella. "Mind if I get his number, too? I can get him in the loop faster that way."
shesepankh
"Yeah, sure." Bella adds Charlie as a contact and then calls him. Her pickup is arranged without further ado; she hangs up and sits down to wait.