Harvest King Files: The Carpool

Three days. Three days in the car with that insufferable brat. Three days of complaints and being blamed for the situation and I kick her out of the car for forty-five minutes and she finds them.
*Rose: “Let’s check the mall. You know, when I want to got off the grid I go to the mall. That way the paparazzi only catch me in brand NEW clothes!”
*Dempsey: “That’s not off the grid, Rose. Now if you were a changeling bent on making your Fetch suffer, but you had no real knowledge of the mortal plane, where would you hide?”
*Rose: “I don’t know. Someplace clean where I don’t have to worry about getting Thorns in my boots.”
*Dempsey: “Arawna isn’t some Arcadian fashionista . She’s a well-trained hunter. Think, Rose. We need to find them!”
*Rose: “Hunters are gross, always hiding up in trees and hills. I never understood that.”
*Dempsey: “That way they have the high ground, have a better view of their prey, and can hide much easier.”
*Rose: “You say that like you hunt, Dempsey.”
*Dempsey: “When I used to forage in the Hedge, I learned what I had to do.”
*Rose: “Oooh, I like a man who knows how to brood!”
*Dempsey: …....
*Rose: “Well, I like just about anyone.”
*Dempsey: …........
*Rose: “Tall ones, dumb ones, witty ones...”
*Dempsey: …......
*Rose: “Strong ones, scrawny ones, roooomaaantic ones..”
*Dempsey: …..........
*Rose: “Are you hungry? I’m hungry. Are you hungry?”
*Dempsey: ….........
*Rose: “I know a great Italian place real near here. We could grab a bite and then get back to the party!”
*Dempsey: …..
*Rose: “The Search Party!”
*Dempsey: …...
*Rose: “You’re my +1 to the Search Party. I hope you realize I.. Dempsey slow down! I mean it! You almost hit that ma- Watch where you’re going!... You seem frustrated. Do you want a neck massage? I’ll give you a neck massage. Here I’ll just-”
*Dempsey: “Put your hands on me one more time Rose and you’ll be walking home.”
*Rose: “But you’re just so tense-”
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH
*Dempsey: “Out.”
One hour later I get the call that she single-handedly found them and dispatched one of the most dangerous things to come out of the Hedge I’ve ever seen, and she did it all with a cell-phone and a frying pan. Note to self: underestimate Rose less.
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