Jenna eats the rest of her food for a while, and then has her taste of her last chip (if he can stop at three then so can she). She eats it very slowly and carefully, having other bites of food around it, trying not to think about how she's using up a limited resource that she's probably not going to taste again once her bags are gone for years. (Or maybe even decades. She was thinking of being a magical princess and ruling for 99 years before, though that seems a lot less likely now, with whatever's happening here. Maybe she'll figure out how to stop the evil wraith quickly and be able to go home early? Probably not, probably she'll need to go on a quest and find the technology of the ancestors and use it to save the... world? Universe? She's not really sure and then she'll be able to go home again. And who knows how long that could take. "Okay, let's see if I can get this closed," she says. It's still about 2/3 full, it might be possible but it'll be a bit difficult. "Hand me the hair tie, please," she says. 

He hands it over.

And Jenna tries sealing it with it. It takes a couple of tries but eventually she manages to get it on there without it it sliding back off and keeping the bag more or less closed. "There," she says, ever-so-slightly triumphantly. "And now we can have more of this later." She looks at where the snickers is sitting on the rock they're eating off of. "We should probably save that for later too, shouldn't we," she says, a mournful note in her voice. 

"It's your home that it's a taste of."

"That's... true." Jenna says. She wants to open the wrapper and stuff the whole thing in her face, she wants to eat all of them, she wants to taste exactly what it tastes like and then eat all of it and share it with Ronon and have him enjoy it and have them both enjoy the memory of her home where she's... not going to be able to go for a long, long, long time. 

Jenna puts the closed doritos bag and the unopened snickers back into her bag. "We can have them later," she says. "We can... we can share it later. I know I'm going to go back eventually, but... I don't know when. And it's probably going to be a while." A long, long time. Why did she do this? It's for adventure and for finding a cute boy (like this one) and kissing him and saving the world and and and so many things but all of a sudden she just wants to go home and she can't. It'll be fine, she's on an adventure, but it's still sadder and scarier than she expected.   

He will gently pat her on the shoulder... what he thinks of as gently so it's a bit strong for what she's used to but he adjusts down when he notices. "You haven't been away from home for long."

She's jostled and surprised the first time, but when he does it lighter afterwards she takes it as the clearly affectionate gesture she meant as. (Would he like a hug? She's not sure if he'd like a hug just yet even though his hugs would probably be very good and strong and she should stop thinking about this right now even though it's probably better than thinking about all the other awful things she's thinking about.) "I haven't," she admits. "You're the first person I saw after leaving. Though I'm sure we'll run into others," she adds, with a hopeful note in her voice. 

"Probably," he agrees. He doesn't expect more people to join this little group. He's conflicted about whether he even wants her to stay with him. But running into other people definitely happens.

Jenna, on the other hand, is reasonably certain that they're going to have people join their adventuring party or whatever they're going to be called. (She should probably not come up with a team name certainly not when there are only two of them so far but also it would be awesome if they had a team name wouldn't it but now is not the best time to be thinking about that or doing that.) She eats more of her food. "I guess we sleep after this?" she says. It was morning when she left, and it's only been a couple of hours, and good night's sleep before she left seemed like a good idea at the time but now she feels a little foolish. Well, it might give some time for her to write down what happened in the notebook. While it's dark out. Shoot. Maybe the notebook can make her ink glow in the dark? She should ask before it gets too dark to read. 

He nods. "Sleep when you can. It's not always easy to find time for it."

It's already pretty dark but there's moonlight so it's not pitch black.

Well, hopefully the light is good enough for her to at least start writing in it. "I might take a few minutes to write in my journal before we go to sleep," she tells him. "But I'll join you shortly." 

"Suit yourself." He lies down on the ground and appears to be trying to get to sleep.

Hopefully they find some kind of like, blankets or something soon, though maybe that's a bit too much to ask for. She's never slept on the ground before, and isn't looking forward to it. But that's what she signed up for, more or less. 

Jenna tilts the notebook to catch the moonlight as best as possible. 

I've had an eventful few hours, and I met a friend! I want to tell you about it but it's kinda hard to see in this light. Is there any way you could like, make the text written in you glow, or something? If not I might try and get some sleep and catch you up later. 

How's this?

Oh she hadn't thought of that!

Oh, that works! I can work with this! 

She totally can! The notebook is so great and helpful. 

I'm guessing you want me to go through what's happened to me so far, right? How do I count days here actually I have no idea what date it is in this world, or universe maybe, I'm not sure how things work yet. I guess I can just put "Day 1" at the top of the page and put dates in later maybe? 

That works! ♡

Then that's what she does! 

Day 1

Dear Notebook,

Today is my first day in this new world! I told you I was ready to receive the spirit's power and then I was in a blue tunnel thing and I came out through this strange magic portal that was basically a large ring standing on the ground on a platform and what looked like a rippling pool of water with runes glowing on the edges of it. And then pool of water disappeared and the runes stopped glowing and the water disappeared. The runes look kinda like constellations when I took a closer look, and there was a pedestal with some buttons on it that seemed to correspond to the runes or constellations on the magic portal ring but I couldn't get it to work at all, I pressed various buttons and the big button in the middle but the ring didn't seem to work at all. And then there was a noise which I guess was probably gunshots, which I went to investigate and I found Ronon next to a dead wraith. Oh, he explained that later, but wraith are apparently the bad guys here, they have cullings of people which I actually never asked about and probably should, and also they put a tracker in Ronon and they're hunting him using the tracker which is very not nice. The dead wraith had green skin and a weird looking face and some kind of claw things and didn't look very nice. Ronon pointed his gun at me at first which was scary but probably pretty sensible if he just was fighting a wraith but I convinced him I'm not dangerous and we became friends. I think. He didn't think I was good at fighting but after we gathered some food which I picked up how to do really fast from watching him (the skill learning power is really awesome!) we did some sparring and it turns out the combat senses and instincts and stuff also work really well though he's still better at fighting at I am or at least he knows more things than I do. But I learned things from him! I learned how to fake doing one thing and then do another thing which was really awesome! He was also really surprised that I'd never heard of the wraith or the ancestors or anything at all, but I told him I was from really far away. Though he did mention his world at some point, so I think people might be able to travel between different planets. Plus he mentioned technology that the ancients had and that it couldn't defeat the wraith, so maybe this world has some magic like the magic portal that I came through but I think it might also have lots of technology too, though I think most people here don't have a lot of it. It doesn't look like people here have technology, anyways, though Ronon does have that weird gun so maybe I'm wrong about that. 

She's wandered a bit off topic here, hasn't she, thinking about things instead of just telling the notebook what really happened. But maybe it's okay for her to be using this to go through her thoughts and her day and try to figure out what everything means. And go over the stuff she's missed. 

Maybe I'm wrong about how good everyone is with technology, then. I suppose I'll find out later. Regardless we probably need to find someone to get the tracker out of Ronan, since otherwise the wraith will be able to keep finding him, which is probably dangerous for us even though I am really good at fighting now at least when fighting Ronan who is really, really good at fighting. Or at least as far as I can tell. 

Should she say something about how attractive Ronan is? She feels somewhat embarrassed about how she feels about Ronon is already but he is really big and attractive and has muscles and has a really hot deep voice and... okay fine. Blushing, she writes

Also, Ronon is really muscular and big and he has a really deep voice and is really attractive. Or at least I think he's attractive. He has really good muscles though, his arms are like so big and strong and when he beat me and pushed me down the first time

Jenna has to pause and turn pink at the memory of that. Goodness that was really really a lot. She turns pinker. 

it was a lot. I didn't expect to like that kind of thing but I liked it a lot. He doesn't talk much but when he does he's really self-assured and I like him. 

That might be more than enough writing about Ronon now. Where was she? Oh right. 

So we prepared the food that we gathered after we sparred and then I shared some doritos with him and he seemed to like them and also pointed out that this is a taste of my home and we should savor it and he's right and so we sealed the bag back up with one of his hair ties after we had a few chips each and even though I really really wanted to share the snickers with him because once I use all of them up they're gone until I get home and it might be years or even longer until I go back. 

She is not going to cry about this, why is she crying about this. She wanted to go on an adventure and save a bunch of people and even though it's going to be so long before she sees her new friends or her parents or her siblings ever again years or decades or even longer she's still going to see them again the notebook promised and also it's just silly snack food why is she starting to cry about this. She wipes her tears away and steels herself. She's stronger than this. She's here on an adventure. With magic. And a really hot muscular guy who she might maybe want to kiss but now is not the best time for that but maybe later. She's doing what she wants. She wipes her tears away (glad that the notebook can't see her cry and also that Ronon is probably asleep and can't see either) and goes back to writing.  

And anyways it's night here now which makes me feel a little silly about getting a good night's sleep beforehand so he's getting some sleep and I'm writing in you before I try and get some sleep myself, though I might not do a very good job of sleeping. And that's everything that happened, I think. Is there anything you want to ask about? Anything you think I might have missed? 

Oh, wow, you're having such adventures already!

Ronon sounds nice. I'm glad you're getting along with him! I hope you find a way to help him with his problems. (And I also hope he ends up liking you back, but that seems less important, even though it sounds like you would have a good time if he did! This stuff about being hunted by people with claws is just very worrying.)

It's hard to be away from home, isn't it? I hope you find your way back soon. But if it turns out that you have to help a lot of people and solve a lot of problems first, then I bet you will be brave and strong and kind and make lots of friends along the way! ♡

She is not going to cry she is not going to cry she is not. 

I really hope so! I plan to be. I'm going to be. I've already made one friend, I just need to make more. And then I'm going to stop the wraith from culling people and hunting people with their help and then figure out how to get home so I can go back and forth whenever I want and see my friends and family and learn to be an actress and everything.

You will! I believe in you. ♡

Despite herself, Jenna blushes. 

Well, thanks for the vote of confidence! I think that's everything, though. I guess I might as well try to get a bit of sleep now, though I can talk about other things if you want. I guess this is what jet lag is? I've never had to deal with jet lag before. Maybe it's a better idea to stay up talking to you? Or should I try getting some sleep and try to acclimate that way? 

I think if you're going to be here where now is time to sleep, it's probably a good idea to try to sleep now if you can. But my advice about sleeping might not be very good, because I am a notebook.

That makes sense! I think I'll try sleeping then. Thanks for talking to me, though, this was really good and helpful. Even though we just met, you're a friendly voice to talk to. Or write to, whichever. 

I'm glad I can help! Sleep well! ♡

Thanks!

And with that, she'll try and get to sleep.