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[Some would call this "the calm before the storm." A good four, maybe five hours before the countdown hits zero, and camp itself is rather . . . peaceful, in some respects. Perhaps even too quiet, as campers and counselors and alien interlopers either prepare for combat or make their way to underground safehouses. The air is cool, still, and the

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[kepthishead]

[at the gingerbread hut. specifically behind a locked door. It's okay, Elliot's loud enough to be heard through a door.]

Vanessa! This stopped being appropriate when I was nine!

[head_downstairs]

Do you think I care? There is no way I'm going to let you out and get in trouble! The countdown is going to hit zero soon, and I know you. I'm your sister!

[kepthishead]

How do you know what I'm going to do?!

[head_downstairs]

You've been making nothing but awful decisions since the day you started being able to make them! Of course I know you're going to do something!

[kepthishead]

And locking me in a room isn't an awful decision?

[head_downstairs]

Of course it's not! It's a logical one, given your tendency to get yourself into horrible situations! I'm not going to let you die again Elly, not while I am breathing!

[kepthishead]

[there's a muffled gasp behind the door.]

[kepthishead]

Is that what this is about?

Vanessa, I'm not going to die. Too many people depend on me.

[head_downstairs]

[she sighs and put a hand over his forehead-- not that you can see it since she's on the other side of the door, but still]

What do you think it's about? If you don't die, you're still going to get hurt. You can't ask me to let you go just because other people depend on you. You're my brother.

[kepthishead]

No, I can't ask you to let me go just because of that. But I am going to ask you to let me go because it's the right thing to do, and that it's wrong to keep me here and expect someone to protect me when there's people who truly can't defend themselves.

[head_downstairs]

I don't want you to protect them! I don't care if it's the right thing to do!

[kepthishead]

Then we're going to spare someone to protect me, when we're so short of people as it is? I won't live like that!

[head_downstairs]

Can't protecting me be enough for you? Just this once! I won't let you die again, Elliot! You can't ask me this. I won't!

[kepthishead]

I can't protect you like this!

[head_downstairs]

I'd let you out if you promised to stop being an idiot! But even if you did, you'd lie and run away, I know you!

[kepthishead]

I don't lie!