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[buryyouwithmysound]

So this is way unexpected, but it's not like it's the first time Marceline's run into a strange interdimensional portal. It's definitely the first time she found one in her fridge, but that's life.

And hey, there's no sunlight, so why worry about all that junk? Nah. Marceline's just gonna float through the hallways and explore, because she's just chill like that, as most Vampire Queens are. She's even got a box of strawberries that she's eating one by one, poking a fang into one and sucking out all the red color. She's even being nice and putting the lifeless gray ones back in the box.

"Man this place is so weird," she says, floating two feet off the ground as she explores.

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[vampire_shield]

No matter how many times Bella told herself she wasn't looking for him, she had to admit to herself that she was. Not actively. She wasn't going all stalker, because she knew he wasn't Edward. Still, she couldn't stop looking for him when she walked around the Nexus. Just checking on the new arrival.

Something like that.

Yeah. Right. She couldn't lie, even to herself.

Still berating herself about that, Bella turned a corner and looked ahead of her. She stopped short when she saw someone (something?) floating above the floor.

"Um. Hello?"

[buryyouwithmysound]

Marceline twists in the air and it's like she's hanging by her knees from playground monkey bars. "Yo, this place is wild. Strawberry?"

She holds out the box of half-grayed strawberries as an offering. "The gray ones still taste like strawberries."

[vampire_shield]

"And getting wilder all the time," Bella said softly, watching as the other woman dangled upside down with no visible means of support.

"Ah, thanks, no. Strawberries aren't really my thing. Can I ask why they're gray?"

[buryyouwithmysound]

"'Cause I drank all the red out." Marceline picks up a fresh red one and pokes it again with her fang, draining out the red.

"Delicious!"

[vampire_shield]

"And here I thought I'd seen everything," Bella said with little laugh and a shake of her head. "Guess not. So...going on the fang there, I'm guessing you're a vampire?"

[buryyouwithmysound]

"Yeah. I'm Marceline, the Vampire Queen," she said, floating over.

"How about you?"

[vampire_shield]

"Well, I'm not a queen, if that's what you're asking?" Bella said, not really revealing what she was. Though, when she thought about it, what was the point of secrecy? It's not like people here didn't know already, and not many of them had even blinked an eye.

"But I am a vampire."

[buryyouwithmysound]

"Weird. I don't meet a lot of others," Marceline says. She drifts down to the ground, hovering only a few inches over it now.

"I just opened my fridge and there was a weird portal in there. Does that happen to you?"

[vampire_shield]

"Well, there are at least two others here, and one guy with fangs that I know of, but he's not a vampire, so I guess you're among friends?"

Bella laughed. "I don't have a fridge, but I don't think that's the most relevant part of the question. I don't see portals, either. I just opened a door to my house and ended up here instead of home and now I can't get back."

[littlerubyred]

Ruby had come to understand that there were many wonders in the world(s) upon arriving at the Nexus, though when she rounded the corner on the way up to her room after a shift at the bar and found someone floating, she had to stop and take a long look. When it was obvious that her eyes weren't deceiving her, she was immediately sad that she hadn't stuck around for drinks after her shift tonight. She wasn't one for excesses, but even she knew she was way too sober for this.

"That's..." She started, then remembered to smile. No reason to be unfriendly, even if she was baffled by this person's gravity immunity. "That's quite a trick."

[buryyouwithmysound]

Marceline grins, gently touching down on the ground.

"So much more fun than walking. Don't know how you do it."

[littlerubyred]

Ruby watched as the person before her touched down to the ground, then huffed a laugh. "I can imagine it would be," she said with a faint shake of her head. "It would certainly make standing on my feet for hours a bit more comfortable. You're quite fortunate." She smiled. "I don't think I've seen you around before. My name is Ruby."

[buryyouwithmysound]

"Ruby, huh?" Marceline pronounces the name as if she's tasting it. Deep red and delicious.

"Now there's a nice name."

[littlerubyred]

Ruby had never seen anyone take so much tactile pleasure out of pronouncing her name, though she supposed she'd never seen anyone floating before, either. Tonight was a night of bewildering firsts, it would seem.

"Ruby," she agreed with a nod. "Thank you. What's your name?"

[buryyouwithmysound]

"Marceline," she says, settling down to the ground so she can stick a hand out. "The Vampire Queen."

[littlerubyred]

"The... Oh," Ruby said and nodded, turning that over. She supposed she'd been groomed to expect certain things from vampires thanks to the movies and tv that she'd grown up with, and Marceline didn't immediately fit into the Bela Lugosi stereotype that would've had her thoughts turning down the 'vampire' road from the first. Then again, there was the strangeness of her coloring, and the grey lumps - were they strawberries? - that she had been eating upon Ruby's arrival.

"Well, I have to say, you're my first vampire. And my first queen. Two for you, Marceline." She smiled. "Which is also quite a lovely name."

[buryyouwithmysound]

Marceline grins, finally rooting properly to the ground. The smile shows off her two little fangs. "Strawberry? The gray ones are still good."

[slutbomb]

"Wow, talk about pot and kettle." Faith's leaning casually against the door, but her eyes are carefully assessing Little Miss Floaty Fangs, here. She'd been wandering the halls, even stalked around the grounds a little (talk about mindblowing?) before coming back in for booze. Because after that experience, Faith isn't sure there's any other option.

Still, it's not with any particular malice that she watches Marceline, just-- healthy curiosity. She knows passive body language when she sees it, and she's totally grown as a person. Sometimes even asks questions first and punches after!

[buryyouwithmysound]

"How do you know that you're not the weird one and I'm, like, way normal?" Marceline asks, offering the other girl a big, fangy grin.

"Yo, do you know what this place is?"

[slutbomb]

At that, Faith shrugs (while still totally taking note of those fangs, of course) because that's not a terrible point.

"Hotel's the best I've got so far." Faith nods back at the girl. "You just randomly wind up here too?"

[buryyouwithmysound]

Marceline nods, floating over and offering up her box of strawberries, gray side out. She still wants the last of the red.

"Yeah. There was a portal in my fridge."

[slutbomb]

"Thanks, I'm good." Seriously, Faith's sure her ease at responding to the most bizarre of situations is more an attest to her dysfunctional upbringing, though the supernatural creature bit helps some, too. Whatever, sucking juice (?) from fruit was better than blood from innocents.

"I was leaving my flat. Or trying, at least. You do portals a lot?"

[buryyouwithmysound]

"They still taste like strawberry. I just drank out the red. Vampire, you know?" Marceline shrugs and takes the red out of another strawberry.

"Only when I'm visiting my dad. So, like, never."

[slutbomb]

"Right. Vampire." Her distaste for discolored strawberries aside, Faith is just going to roll with this. Hell, she's dealt with way worse. "Dads suck. Never was a fan."

[buryyouwithmysound]

"He was just, like, way neglectful." Not like Simon, but she's just so not gonna go there.