making your insomnia everyone else's problem [video]

[tr1xx]

[ It's late, like, super late. Like 'if any of us had a clock to go off it'd probably read 3am' kind of late. The stars are shining clear in the sky and the only light on the feed is from the Heartstone, not even a fire. Wherever Cammie's settled, she's not right next to anyone else in the group for some reason or another.

Cammie is also, notably, not on any watch rotation. Also also, she's totally human, aka: neither nocturnal, nor able to get by without sleeping at all. She's fastening her ears back around her ponytail, as the live feed starts, which means she probably at least gave sleeping a go—there's even some makeshift blankets wrapped around her shoulders—but she's awake now, looking tired as anything but perky, too. Only the particular observant may note the slightly haunted look beneath the teenage bravado and energetic way she speaks. ]

Christ, I'm bored. What's a girl s'posed to do around here when it's too dark an' cold out to go on a walk or somethin', eh? Call me addicted to technology all ye like, but the Ether's a blessin' when—

[ She coughs, does not finish that sentence. She admits she's up because of nightmares and precedent from home tells her someone will stage an intervention. ]

Anyway. Some of youse must still be up, aye? Anyone wanna play like— what did people play before the Ether... —2 truths 1 lie? Truth or dare? Hell, I'd say 20 questions but I think the multiverse makes that kinda complicated. Imagine someone picks somethin' only found in their universe. Practically amounts to cheatin' and ye might not even know ye doin' it.

...but, seriously, I'm goin' out of my mind doin' nothin' right now, surely I cannae be the only one?

[ There's a nonzero chance this broadcast wakes up people who weren't, actually, already awake at 3am, but Cammie's decided that's worth the risk right now. Sorry everyone. ]

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[hallelujahjunction]

Christ, woman, you’re going to get me all shook up about my ability to lie. They turn red and white when I’m cold. I don’t get scared.

[That, he hopes, is a lie she’ll believe, although it probably just sounds like a groundless boast. He figured she might catch him about the hands, though - he’s pretty sure the reason they do that is too many cigarettes for too many years, and she already knows he’s a smoker.]

Please tell me you been to Vegas, you could make a million. Alright. Your last round.

[millenyal_pink]

[Elle is unreasonably relieved to have gotten it right.

Also, she doesn't need to be able to read him to know that that's a lie. Sh gets why he says it, though. She gets the need to be the strong, unflappable one for the people who depend on you (even if it's mostly for yourself). Her packmate, Isaac, is someone who lies to himself and others about that constantly. It's a chronic condition, at this point.]

Never been to Vegas, but uh--

Once my packmate gave me a bunch of Luck? Like, magically? Because there was this thing I needed to do, and it wasn't life-or-death but it was kind of important.

[It was talking to her father for the first time since she changed. It went uncomfortably well. Her father got... emotional. It's an experience she tries not to think about.]

And he kind of overdid it. It was-- it was absolutely ridiculous. So we hit a casino before the spell ran out.

[That was one of their first adventures as a pack.]

Okay, last one.

[Thinking of things that are interesting without giving too much of herself away is getting harder and harder. It would be one thing if they were doing this alone or in a small group, but anyone can overhear them.

Thinking of stuff that wouldn't potentially get the werewolves to hunt her down (whether to kill her or just to get answers) is also proving difficult.]

I've taken psychedelics multiple times, fate spirits hate me, and my real first name is Eliza.

[hallelujahjunction]

Oh, that sounds, no pun intended, fortunate.

[He keeps it entirely out of his voice and face, but that's the sort of thing that his siblings died looking for - Luck enough to break the family curse. A blessing, an antidote, a countercurse, the favor of a minor deity, they didn't care, and all they ever found, at best, was snake oil.

Sometimes the strangest things bring memories of those years up like stomach acid.]

Alright. [He turns this over in his head. Eliza isn't an unreasonable genesis for Elle, but it could also be Elizabeth, Ella, Ellen, Eleanor, Elsa, or Elle could be a middle name or just a chosen name the same way Sagittarius is. Psychedelics - she doesn't seem the type, but that could be her trying to get around him. Fate spirits sounds specific enough to be accurate, although it could be something else, like nature spirits.] Eliza.

[millenyal_pink]

Yup! Fate spirits and I do not get along, and hallucinogens are used in some of our ceremonies and rituals.

[Well, Pumonca ones, at least.]

I'm definitely not an Eliza. [Elle laughs.]


Thank you for this. This was a lot of fun. We'll have to get people together for real and do it again soon, it might help to lift morale.

[hallelujahjunction]

I been at a few ceremonies with werewolves and peyote, so I believe it.

[He breathes a sigh of relief that he managed to get at least one round right. He wasn't expecting Elle to outwit him so thoroughly every step of the way.]

Thanks to you, too. Might could have one of these every time we settle down, or something similar. I'm out by the heartstone mending some clothing if you need company tonight.

[millenyal_pink]

I'm gonna give sleep my best shot, but I might take you up on that depending on how it goes.

[Elle's gotten the impression that Dan is probably one of the most genuinely kind people she'll ever meet. That doesn't keep her from being grateful for his offer.]

We all need to try to rest while we have this downtime. Who knows when we'll have a place like this again.