Camelot Castle Campfire, Saturday Morning

[whenshewasnice]

It was not every day that Envy Adams found herself waking up in a bouncy castle. In fact, it had been around two decades since she'd last done it. And yet here she was. And admittedly, she'd felt far more dignified in her life than she did when she was clambering out of the plastic monstrosity, but her grace stats were pretty high by now. She

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[notconflicted]

There were times Sia missed this place, and other times she really didn't. When you were an empress who got to start her morning in a bouncy castle, it tended to be one of those other times.

Still, she knew how things like this tended to work, so she made her way out to look for other people. Because then she could say things like, "Oh good, it's not just me."

[whenshewasnice]

"Isn't it a Fandom rule that it's rarely just you?" Envy wondered with a barely raised eyebrow. "Welcome to Fandom's idea of getting people into a reunion spirit."

By making them all a little wary of the island's antics, just like old times.

[notconflicted]

"I'd prefer they'd have just sent an invitation," Sia said wryly, finding a seat.

[whenshewasnice]

"Oh, I got one of those," Envy said, following the statement up with a shrug. "But it seems that wasn't anywhere near enough. I'm used to people being desperate for my attention, but I forgot some places could be like that, too."

[notconflicted]

"Fandom does what it wants, and the rest of us deal with it," Sia said. "I'd say it's nice that some things never change, but..."

She had things to do here, Fandom. Come on.

[whenshewasnice]

"We all have things we might rather want to be doing," Envy supplied. "Yet here we are. High school trying to control our lives again."

[notconflicted]

"I suppose we should look at it as a weekend off." She was thrilled by that rationalization, really.

[whenshewasnice]

"Probably for the best." Since it appeared a bit out of their control, yes. "Better than pointlessly complaining about it."

[craftyladyparts]

"Are you sure? We could be figments of your imagination after you inhaled too many plastic fumes," Jessica pointed out.

[notconflicted]

"If I was going to have hallucinations in Fandom, they'd probably be due to gremlin bites, not plastic fumes," Sia pointed out.

And maybe glanced around for tiny green things out of habit.

[craftyladyparts]

"Maybe. All I'm saying is that if I state the simple fact that nobody has hallucinated that they're something appropriate to their castle, I'm going to add a 'yet' at the end," Jessica pointed out.

[notconflicted]

"Thank you for the jinx," Sia told her. "I'm sure I speak for all of us here when I say we appreciate that."

She didn't appreciate that. Empresses don't hallucinate... all right, she didn't know what went with a disco dome thing, but whatever went with that, she wasn't doing it.

[craftyladyparts]

Sia was going to be a goddamn Bee Gee.

"Hey, glad I could help," Jessica said. "I don't get to cause low-key trouble anymore. It feels good sometimes."

[notconflicted]

"I'm amazed you don't," Sia admitted.

[craftyladyparts]

"It turns out that when you're Director of SHIELD, any trouble you cause ends up being a whole big thing, so you'd better really mean it," Jessica said.

[notconflicted]

"How do you ever have fun?" Sia asked, and while it sounded like teasing, it was actually kind of a serious question because Jessica.