Thread: Avalon (Hat + Anna)

That's actually pretty cool, Anna admitted. The whole magical objects thing was probably the best part of this crazy day so far as she was concerned, because the whimsy and wonder of entire new races and species tended to be dulled somewhat when the first thing they did was try to put a pick-axe through your head. I mean, it only works half the time, so mine's clearly way cooler, but them's the breaks, she reasoned out, flashing Freddy a grin. She did what she could to help with pitching the tents, but when it came to helping with the fire and cooking over it, Anna was admittedly not exactly the best team player to have come up from the bench. Still, she was at least happy to take directions wherever necessary. She might've been too-cool-for-school a lot of the time, but it seemed like one way or another, she was going to have to be getting along with these people for a while, so no reason not to get started. Something Frederick had said vaguely tickled at something, like a memory she couldn't quite remember or a thought that didn't want to be fully formed. If their magical bribes were connected to one person, who had that person been? Anna didn't focus on it too much, because even if she could figure that out, it's not like she would've known anything about the guy. Anna ended up sitting cross-legged in front of the fire while the meat cooked, realizing quickly once night fell that the warmth of the crackling fire was probably more than just a nice light to see by once things began to get cool. She tucked her backpack between her legs and then turned her hat upside down on top of it, reaching into it and thinking briefly about her cell phone. It popped right into her hand. I wish you guys had cell towers here, she muttered as she thumbed the power on. It was probably a waste of the battery to turn it on and play some tunes, but frankly, she couldn't just sit in front of a fire and talk for the rest of the night without a distraction. What was she, a social butterfly? Granted, she would have had plenty to talk about if she'd realized Arkansas hadn't given her the full 411 on his own mystical doohickey. If she had anything to be thankful for, it was that between the textbook hiding in her bag and the void hiding in her hat that she had propped up in front of her, he wasn't getting the full monty. It must have been kind of weird, seeing the normal world through one eye and the hidden world through the other, causing shifting or overlapping images if you didn't squint to just peer through the monocle .. but in the bright light of the campfire and her interest in her phone, even if he looked at her with one eye, she didn't really pay attention right then and there. Anna's clothes might not have been the most form fitting, well tailored things in the world, but they gave at least a hint of how she probably looked under them. It was different than actually seeing, though. Her skin was as pale as it seemed from the outside that whole disliking the sun thing, dotted with only a few freckles here and there, mostly near the shoulders. And seeing the effects of a bra without actually seeing the thing was an interesting experiment in the defiance of gravity .. one that was probably fairly unique, because if Anna had one two things that could be classified as both blessing and curse, it was definitely her rack. There were anime girls who had a more appropriate body-to-boob ratio than she did, and while that was cool when it got her free drinks, it was a pain when they got in the way, made her back ache, and generally just existed all up in her business. But hey, they looked absolutely incredible, even partially obscured behind a creeper-blocking top hat who's internal void couldn't quite manage to be seen through, just like the textbook inside her backpack that did a great fig leaf impression for the unwary Eve.