Snippet #1928415

"Dude, I shit you not!" Callen responded to Zach, something she only said when she was very serious. "I'm not kidding around with this. It's just too bad that everyone's forgotten about him, I mean, I only found a few articles in the school library by coincidence. Though, a lot of his methods have been discredited and whatnot, but that doesn't mean that he didn't inspire Shelley some." She was smiling, even laughing, but then stood again. "You guys think Vik's gonna be back soon? I mean, I thought he needed to take a dump, but that can't take long, can it?" she then sighed, scratching her head. "Anyway, I can see one good thing to come out of this evac. I can get back to the school, take a nice long shower, and get some proper sleep." Just as she mentioned sleep, an image of her and Anna's room appeared in her head, and she remembered that all her friend's things were still there, many of them perfectly untouched. Callen had made the bed, and made sure that everything was in order for Anna to return, but the days had passed, and the dust had fallen, and Callen had disappeared into her own despair. At once the corners of her mouth turned down, and she turned away from Adrian and Zach.

When this particular feeling overcame her, she just wanted to be alone. So, she walked away, not bothering to disguise her emotional state.

Adrian noticed the shadow creeping over Callen's face, but couldn't ask about it before she was already quite a few steps away. "So... Doctor Frankenstein was inspired by a real person? That's really creepy. Is if it wasn't bad enough that vampires are real." He sighed, not even thinking about the words he was saying. He understood how things kept changing very fast around him, but didn't feel like he could keep up with it. "I guess... We should wait for Viktor to return then? And then leave?" He asked, not really sure where to put himself. He was new to this, and didn't know how to react. Was he supposed to be mad that they could return to the school? If anything, it pleased him. Much like Callen, he wouldn't mind a warm shower and a nice bed.

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"RETURNING HOME?" She wrote, as soon as Viktor had said that they'd walk back the way they had come. "NOT SO SOON." She then added, completely sure that they couldn't have spent a week out already. They would have been much farther from the school if they had been underways for a week. she knew that teh planned route, which really just was a guideline, was a circle around the school, and she found it hard to believe that it could've been changed. It had always been like that. She then paused, and looked away. It must've seemed odd for a creature such as her to express shyness, but it was ingrained in her to still move like a human being. "DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE SAFE TO FOLLOW?" She then asked.