"Oh." A friend's house. That was... different. Interesting.
Coraline fished out her key from the ignition and quickly popped the saddlebags open just to make sure they worked and everything inside was all right, then closed them again. There wasn't much wrong outside some scratches. And the longer she listened to Claire, the more "interesting" turned into "complicated"--then took a sharp turn into "did NOT see that coming" before arriving at "heavy, but what the hell, I have nothing else in my calendar."
Coraline let out a short puff of slightly overwhelmed laughter. "Well, out of all the weird things I was ready for this to be, 'Apocalypse' was not on the list! With what you'd said about suddenly finding yourself in a different reality, only your dad was here waiting for you, I was expecting more along the lines of what I normally deal with. Some kind of monster or spirit with a taste for abducting young people."
She grinned at Claire. "At the risk of suddenly turning into the weird one in the conversation... back home, I hunt monsters. Like, for a living. I don't spend a lot of time on the demonic end of the hunting spectrum, but I know the basics. I'm pretty sure I can deal. Laugh in the face of danger and all that." She stood, dusting herself off, then reached down to offer Claire a hand up before worrying about getting the bike upright again. "Eh, I survived. Definitely need to talk to your Adam about the roads, though. I get making sure I had my bike, I've got all my gear in here, but we gotta talk traffic laws if this is going to become a regular thing."
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Coraline fished out her key from the ignition and quickly popped the saddlebags open just to make sure they worked and everything inside was all right, then closed them again. There wasn't much wrong outside some scratches. And the longer she listened to Claire, the more "interesting" turned into "complicated"--then took a sharp turn into "did NOT see that coming" before arriving at "heavy, but what the hell, I have nothing else in my calendar."
Coraline let out a short puff of slightly overwhelmed laughter. "Well, out of all the weird things I was ready for this to be, 'Apocalypse' was not on the list! With what you'd said about suddenly finding yourself in a different reality, only your dad was here waiting for you, I was expecting more along the lines of what I normally deal with. Some kind of monster or spirit with a taste for abducting young people."
She grinned at Claire. "At the risk of suddenly turning into the weird one in the conversation... back home, I hunt monsters. Like, for a living. I don't spend a lot of time on the demonic end of the hunting spectrum, but I know the basics. I'm pretty sure I can deal. Laugh in the face of danger and all that." She stood, dusting herself off, then reached down to offer Claire a hand up before worrying about getting the bike upright again. "Eh, I survived. Definitely need to talk to your Adam about the roads, though. I get making sure I had my bike, I've got all my gear in here, but we gotta talk traffic laws if this is going to become a regular thing."