Teddybear

"Hm," Megara tapped her cards thoughtfully, "I've got a friend who specializes in other worlds. She's a student at this university, big, expensive place. I'll have to ask her to ...

Nat-boy was all bloody. Eddie had forgotten about that. He looked down at himself. He was all bloody too! And his shirt was ripped. He didn't know why his shirt ...

"...Like when Meggie tells me to dress up for festival time?" he asked. He thought he got it, but he wasn't sure. Meggie told him to dress so he fit ...

Eddie looked up, confused, "Clothes?" He didn't know why they were talking about clothes now. Clothes wouldn't get him back to Meggie.

"I keep getting dragged from world to world," she explained, "Unpredictably thrown into a new situation with new people and stuff. It's really annoying."

"Hm. That would make some sense, I guess, considering how my life's been going lately." She shifted her cards to one hand and used a finger to tip Runi's card ...

Megara nodded skeptically, "What makes you think that?" It was an interesting theory, but Megara didn't see any evidence of it. It was her turn again, and she took it ...

Megara saw Runi for a moment. The real Runi, for a split second, then she was gone. Megara was in her room, half-dressed in the gown she'd been getting out ...

As the group loudly murmured about how they thought the game went, Megara gave Runi a look. "Game?" Gods, she hoped Runi didn't know something Megara didn't.

Megara's mind was reeling and standing still. Her head was in the clouds and buried underground. She sensed everything and nothing and everything was everywhere and nowhere, but mostly she ...

Megara smiled at him, "Goodbye." She held Eddie's hand a little tighter as she prepared to go home.

Megara looked up at her, searching her eyes, on instinct, for a lie. She couldn't believe this. She couldn't afford to be wrong. Why not? She didn't bother to argue ...

"No, that's all," Megara confirmed. She sort of wished she'd have taken something else. A souvenir of some kind to make that statement a lie. But Eddie was tugging impatiently ...

Megara took a sip from a wine glass she didn't remember arriving and took her turn in the game. "I'm sure it doesn't," she said with a genuine-seeming smile of ...

She rolled her eyes, "Are you going to send Eddie and I home or not?" She hadn't done anything to it, but his anxiety over the matter was fun.