"Knew it~! Now you just have to make him realize it."

"I think he does realise. Would explain why he's so easy to fluster."

"I'm still here," Marla says, rolling her eyes. "So - I get solar panels and hydroponic stuff or something else about as useful from someone, or I don't lower the toll."

"Fine, sure. And try to be nicer to people." The last part is layered with a little compulsion.

Marla makes a sarcastic 'heh' sound at this, but she does look thoughtful.

"Super-Punker-Queen, away!"

Jo follows her, somersaulting and grinning.

Poor Nick is being bugged a lot by his fellow vampires.

Well what if he shuts his doors and asks them to go away?

The second half of today is a me-day.

"Huh," she says once they're out of earshot.

"I don't think it means anything. Sometimes you just want to be alone."

"I know. Hey, anyone you want to pluck out of the herd?"

"A few people, kinda. My brother still doesn't want it though."

"I'm sorry about that. Still, any boys who are not your brother?"

"Hm... That's classified. You'll have to spy to figure it out."

"Will do!"

Of course, she plans on leaving false trails. "Let's go heckle the video-gamers back at the shelter, that's always fun."

"Their peace and happiness must be disturbed at all costs!"

"...And that's why using GPS tracking alone is not good enough for this. You need a backup system."

"This'll really save on mail-vampires."

"Not everything can be replaced by these drones, though."

"Yet."

If there was a camera, it would probably be slowly zooming into Danny's face right now while scary music plays.

"No. Not 'yet'. Let's not build Skynet, the humans won't like it."

He giggles. "Humans don't know what's good for em."

"While this is frequently true, it still won't do do completely disenfranchise them."