>>2306934“Can I go, now? I have to at least try to get back my stuff,” she said. Has she not unpacked yet? It must have sucked Jill was the first person she met at camp and went out and stripped her naked first thing.
“Uh… give us a minute, okay?” Erika ordered her. “That’s a question for our lead witch. Wait for her to wake up. We don’t know yet if you’re ready to get loose into the world.”
“Stuff? What stuff? Does she have stuff?” Jill asked to Erika. “We don’t want her selling or trading her clothes, okay? That’d mess everything up. What does she have? She told me yesterday she didn’t have a thing.”
“You heard her. You can’t go to your stuff. Now back to your bed and wait for others to wake up,” Erika told her off like Lady was a child. Lady groaned but still went back to bed; also like a little kid she talked back under her breath. “What was that?” Erika heard some of it.
“N-nothing!” Lady tried to deny it.
“No, she makes a completely fair observation.”
The tiny, pretty thing in my arms had heard, too. Medea tried to get up but I didn’t let her; I wanted this to last longer. She stopped trying to escape and just turned so at least she could face the people she was talking to.
“It is as you say, Lady. Carmen was not able to complete her dare last night and thus a punishment for the day is due,” she said.
“Yes; I guess that’s fair,” Carmen said, above us. “So, what are you guys going to have me do?”
“Oh; no, not you, Carmen. The punishment is for myself. You could not possibly have been at fault.”
Jill and I tried to speak at the same time. Medea hadn’t done anything wrong. Why would she get punished? There was not getting her out of the idea, though. Basically, Medea wanted it to happen. I kept arguing until Jill convinced me that if there was no way Medea would agree with us, the least we could do was give her something easy.
