Comes a creeper creeping

[glass_walls]

Who: Glass and Jack?
When: Some time past a midnight!
What: It's best not to go out alone!

She slipped around the edge of the curtains Khemrys had hung to give them all their spaces and knelt by the cot. Tsk. He'd kicked his blankets off again, chilly little weirdo that he was. She could never get that, blankets were amazing, but then again she was something of an addict when it came to soft things.

Regardless she was going to poke his shoulder, yes, with a finger freshly out of a cast even! "Lazybones," she whispered, "come on or I'm leaving without you. This was your idea!" Or rather he asked where she snuck off to at nights because he was a snoop like that and it was probably easier to just show him than tell him!

And hell, she had some money to make tonight. Khemrys had done well at the local co-op vegetable stand but food money never lasted, that was something she knew all to well. She'd feel better if she could get a nice cushion into the elder kid's hands, and the sooner the better. Some of the kids were looking peaky, which meant they needed better meals, right?

Right.

She was just glad she didn't have to worry about what those better meals were and all that. That many details would probably drive her nuts. "Count of three." And that was three taps, not spoken three, she was pushing it with whispers she'd already given him!

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[justanexpression]

"Cool boys only, thank you very much." And pun very much intended. "No Raistlins allowed. Can you even imagine him trying to have fun?"

Jonas could maybe come if he wanted to, but Jack couldn't exactly see him wanting to.

[glass_walls]

"I think it'd be good for him to try!" she laughed honestly. "He's got the 'I could be a serial killer if I wanted to be' vibe going so some normal stuff might be good for him!" But who was she to know? She wasn't a shrink or anything!

"Okay, fine, you've got a cool boys club where, lemme guess, you skip off to avoid homework?"

[justanexpression]

"Easy for you to say. He doesn't look at you like you might end up on the other end of that serial killering." He grinned, dramatically drawing his thumb across his throat in illustration.

"Like Kernan would let me avoid homework entirely. Khem's got him wrapped around her little finger, you know? But yeah, he lets me put it off a little."

[glass_walls]

"Sure he does, but I ignore it!" she laughed easily. "Someone comes at me like that ever and I'll stick them in an invisible box!" And it would last a good long while if she was that scared!

"And yeah, that's true, but a little while is still okay I guess. Still, bring me a souvenir next time?"

[justanexpression]

"That's a trick." And he could think of so many ways to use it if he could just get her to play along.

"Better than nothing, right? He brings the whole pack, too." Which was more fun than Jack would have expected since they were usually coming and going all the time. "I'd try to bring you something, but it'd probably melt, then you'd be all 'ugh, Jack, why'd you bring me stupid water?'" Yes, that was the girliest voice he could manage. No, it sounded nothing like Glass. Yes, he still thought it was funny.

[glass_walls]

"And a trap," she agreed easily. "And useful, stuck a whole gang in a box once when I was with my dad. They were mad he won at pool." And that was how they got money for food and beds most days!

Anyway. "Wow, you practice that one? You almost sound like a dying chihuahua!" That was his intent, right?

[justanexpression]

So many ways.

"Here I was trying to sound like you. Dying chihuahua's a step up. Thanks!" He was a little disappointed that they'd gotten away from him having a great secret, but getting to tease Glass was almost as good. They'd get back to it eventually.

[glass_walls]

"Might want to get your hearing checked if you think any girl sounds like that," she mused, poking his shoulder cheerfully. "Or better use it on Kernan and watch him stare at you blankly as he tries to decide which of us you're failing at!"