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[ She seems to not have much of a reaction, save for the fact that Devon's very intently feeling her arm. Her shadows. ]

… someone did this ritual that caused an earthquake. Summoned a hellhound, and I thought I could fight it off when I crossed its path, but then its teeth like — melted through my shadows or something? I just remember it biting down on my shoulder until it popped. I got a bunch of burns, too. [ pause. ] There was nothing I could do. It's kind of amazing that I didn't die.

Annnnd you're on my ass about being reckless and stupid?

[But... the way he looks up at her is kinda impressed. Little smirk, glint to the eyes.]

How'd you piss off a hellhound? Are they still around? How do we summon one.

Yeah, I am.

[ Forever and ever. ♥︎ ]

Pretty sure they're just born pissed off. And we don't, Devon. They suck.

[ Sorry August. ]

But I wanna see one. I bet I could take it.

[He'd be such a chew toy.]

They're not still around, are they? Did someone else kill it?

Getting burned up and torn to little pieces doesn't equal 'taking it', just because you'll heal the whole thing eventually.

[ He will still get rekt, and she'll still hate to see it. ]

No… they got un-summoned or something. I hate that it kinda looked cool. Monsters suck, Devon.

Yeah, if you're not the one summoning them.

[If you control them, they won't suck. New goal: control a monster.]

Ugh. Here I thought there was something cool going on.

Sorry. If we want something cool we'll just have to make it happen ourselves.

[ Such as: grabbing a movie or two from the house's own Blockbuster, which Syd wrote and I'm linking for my own convenience. dabs ]

It's that narrow door over there, right?

... Huh.

[Believe it when he sees it, he goes on over to investigate - looking around inside Blockbuster with the eyes of someone who, 17 in 2011, did indeed remember these sacred grounds.]

Aw, shit. Even smells the same in here.

Does it? [ Laughing, amused and a little puzzled that that's something he'd remember. The shadow-carrier follows them around. ] Okay, so we're getting I know what you did last summer, right?

Yeah, yeah. Did Scary Movie come out by now, too?

[Gotta love a classic parody.]

I think so. You get that one while I get the other? [ The shadow-construct stops just then, waiting for them to reunite whenever they grab their respective DVDs. One mini time-skip later, ] So you're into all those movies?

[ It tracks, being his kind of sense of humor. ]

Yeah? I mean, I'll watch a little bit of everything.

[But humor keeps him interested, namely.]

What about you? Favorite genre?

I guess I like sci-fi? And fantasy, but when it's like, set in the modern world.

[ Waving her DVD. ]

Horror's also up there, obviously.

Soooo Twilight.

[Teasing?]

We should watch Twilight.

What, are you gonna tell me that's secretly your favorite movie?

[ They've seen a bunch of hentai together, this is nothing. ]

No, 'cause that's Perfect Blue. Which is something else we gotta watch.

[He hums.]

Final Destination's my favorite live action horror. Probably because it doesn't really scare me. And some of that stuff has actually happened to me...

What — no way! I love that movie.

[ Which I haven't watched yet, somehow ]

Oh, Final Destination's good. [ Wincing a little. ] Yeah, I bet you could play a drinking game with the whole franchise. Drink every time one of those fucked up things have happened to you.

[He perks up visibly:]

Yeah? Do you like it with sub or dub?

[He laughs after that, nodding.]

I kind of miss having a mission... do you?

Sub, obviously.

[ oh no, she's always been a weeb ]

Yeah, sort of. The closest we got to one was back in February, with the pseudo-zombie apocalypse? Saber and I fought off a bunch, but I had totally different powers. That sucked. I don't think there's really been anything like that since, just — fanfic lives and lockets of death.