[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/sjpVOIa.png[/img][/center] [hr] [quote=Vashti]“Dude! Don’t be a dick just because you only have one superlame simp following you around,” [/quote] [color=FireBrick]“I’m not jealous, if that’s what you think,”[/color] Maya snorted, rolling her eyes. She kept her mouth shut otherwise after multiple people told her to (including Kimberley). She still eyed Rowan with a bit of suspicion but otherwise relaxed at the introductions… because people wouldn’t give out names if they were trying to hide something (probably). It wasn’t that she didn’t know that they’d asked for help, she just wasn’t too fond of two extra people tagging along and right into their base. She snorted as Vashti somehow managed to explain things even worse than she had (from lack of effort) and then went on a fucking self pitying speel. Oh yeah, so they were meant to bring it right up rather than tiptoeing around it like sane people who didn’t want either the Jaws or a lizard to eat them? Where was the gratitude for the fact that Maya was the reason the Jaws had even stopped mauling her. She was yet to see Vashti do something for any of them. Maya also wasn’t at all surprised when Madison went off right back at her. She held up her hands at the look shot towards her, but it was pretty clear she didn’t care either way. It wasn’t like she didn’t believe Madison or had explicitly told her to leave. Honestly, if she had to pick a side, she’d rather Madison stayed? Because aside from that one time her abstraction generally didn’t try to actively eat them. Not that she bothered to say it because Madison had latched pretty hard onto her calling the Jaws her dinosaur and as someone with a looott of anger issues herself, she wasn’t about to take a beating for it. Sure she wholly agreed with her but Maya wasn’t exactly the one to show any kind of support. Thankfully Lyss stepped in to put them all out of their misery and explain what was needed. And then they were getting somewhere with the whole reason they’d asked an internet sensation there. For once in her life, Maya actually listened properly and didn’t instantly shoot off her mouth. Sure, she was pessimistic but they were actually getting information rather than flailing about wildly. Surely it was a step in the right direction. [color=FireBrick]“So you’re saying that if we have enough money, we’ll be able to get some kind of cure from them?” [/color]she narrowed her eyes, brain momentarily switching on (a rare occasion outside of academics). [color=FireBrick]“Or is the price more than just monetary? Because it almost always seems to be when it comes to shady dealings.”[/color] Doubly so if it was supernatural. She didn’t want to be selling her soul to cure other people. [color=FireBrick]“And a cure for affiliations would work on Annabelle Heart?”[/color] Seemed a little too easy but, it seemed like a good deal to Maya. She wasn’t about to make the final decision but they could get rid of two things at once: their own afflictions and the murderous cannibal that could kill any of them at any moment. [hr] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/PJoe9Sw.png[/img][/center] [hr] Isla’s brain was going an absolute mile a minute as she flailed about, hand hitting something distinctively hard and tile like. From an outside perspective she looked an awful lot like a floundering fish, lying in the shallow end flopping about and managing to choke on water. [quote=Penny]“Hey stranger, how about you just try standing?” [/quote] The words just about got through her running wild brain and she stilled, just in time to be scooped up under the arms by Mariah. She went half limp in her arms and let out a slight sigh of relief. [color=f26522]“Thanks for saving me again,” [/color]she laughed before looking down and very belatedly realising she’d fallen into the shallow end. [color=f26522]“...I’m allergic to water?” [/color] Definitely one of the worst lies she’d ever told and honestly she knew she wasn’t going to save face. She was quite happy to just hang in Mariah’s arms as Penny’s finger honed in towards her nose. She found herself actually leaning towards it like some kind of weirdly excited dog, before she was moved out of the way of it by Mariah. It felt like a crisis had been averted… or maybe caused, because whenever Odessa had booped her back in paradise it had stopped her saying a lot of dumb shit. [color=f26522]“‘Ello,”[/color] she replied eventually to Penny with an almost genuine smile as if she hadn’t just fallen into a pool at the shock of seeing her and then almost drowned in three inches of water. “[color=f26522]Fancy seeing you here, I’m assuming you got home alright after that strange girl sent us away because lemme tell you she must’ve got something wrong for me cause I very much did not plan to end up in Florida… It’s definitely a nice holiday, though! You really got right back involved in supernatural shit after all that huh. Not that I can say anything since I’m hanging out with a coven of witches wow!”[/color] She cut herself off as she heard the tail end of Vashti’s rant and Mariah’s very confused shouts about it. She also had basically no idea what was going on, since she’d been too occupied with the uwuing monster during the end of the capture the flag. [quote=Mariah]"Or you? Who're you? What y'all ain't just secret members of the coven I ain't met or somethin', right?" [/quote] [color=f26522]“She’s Penny,” [/color]Isla helpfully supplied. [color=f26522]“Definitely ain’t a coven secret member, she’s way too competent for that, no offence to like everyone here.”[/color] Not that anyone but Penny and Mariah would hear her (and it was pretty much a self burn considering she’d decided to join this mess).