It wasn't exactly typical behaviour that Chase saw, but it wasn't exactly on the other end of the spectrum either, where things were so weird (people were so weird) that it couldn't be explained. "I don't know that the world goes away when you just disappear into a piece of clothing," he mildly noted, blaming the rain for why he was engaging this guy in this.
"The fuck it don't," Jason drawled miserably, if muffledly, from under his shirt. "And 'sides, I just hid my head, not the rest. Otherwise I'd get a sleepin' bag or something."
No, it didn't make any sense. It didn't need to make sense.
Chase wandered closer, not feeling like he really had the right to go prying shirts off men's heads, but he did just stand above, letting his shadow tell the man he was there. "And why is head-hiding such a necessity right now?" he asked, aware he might regret the question.
"I gotta tell my sister about all the million ways I fucked up back home," Jason groaned. Finally, he peeked out at the other dude. "Hey, you ever ride a kangaroo? That shit would be cool."
"I have a kangaroo," he said, slowly, but he wasn't sure that he really wanted to get into a discussion about whether or not he rode it because that was just a slight bit too weird, even for him. "How'd you fuck up? Back home?"
"No shit! See, people are all like, Jason, don't be prejudiced against people, but you're an Aussie and you own a kangaroo!" Jason wasn't exactly thrilled at the idea of spilling how he'd fucked up, but he started with, "So do you believe in vampires?"
"Well, I took in a kangaroo as a favour to a friend," he tried to clarify and in that case, it was one of those prejudiced weird things where the Island had some fucked up thing against Australians, but they were already onto something else and he had to keep his attention paid before he got topical whiplash. "I guess? I mean, I've met wizards and mutants. Why not vampires existing, too?"
"You've met wizards an' mutants?" Jason was unabashed in his drawl, the slow musicality of the bayou. "Well, no shit. I only met some vampires. Wizards an' mutants would be way cooler."
"Well, they're here, not exactly what they used to be. So I'm not sure if they still count," he admits, because a wizard without magic and a mutant without any differences just made them as human as anyone else. "I could introduce you sometime? They're mostly just pains in my arse."
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