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[walkswithheroes]

When the last time you were stuck somewhere against your will maxed out at five years, a measly four months stuck in an alternate dimension is nothing. Especially not when there's a regular supply of money and a place to stay and someone Fred knows from home around. It's more than a few steps up from living in a cave.

Though, all of that doesn't mean that Darrow's stopped feeling like some weird place that Fred can't wait to figure out how to leave. Even without much success, she's kept up trying to figure Darrow out. Which is why she's holed up in a booth in a diner near Chelsea Cloisters, a small stack of books on the seat next to her while she flips through a book on magic that she's found in the back of one of Darrow's libraries.

There's a cup of coffee next to her that's gone cold, but every time she remembers to ask for a refill, Fred's distracted by something else in her book.

Just three more pages and she'll flag down a waitress.

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[walkswithheroes]

It's not that Fred doesn't like it, not that she doesn't like him, it's that she doesn't understand why she does, when she barely even knows him. She makes a small pleased sound for a second before Jason moves away again and is immediately embarrassed about it.

"It's okay," she says, "We can figure this out. You haven't been in contact with any witches lately, have you? This could be some kind of spell. Not that I'm any kind of expert when it comes to that stuff, but that'd be my first guess."

[officerjason]

Jason figures he'll have to apologize to Sookie next time he sees her, on account that if this is anything like her crazy vamp attraction, he understands it now. Okay, now stop thinking about your sister while you got a boner.

"No, no witches. No vampires. No fairies. Just... listen, I've been under a spell before, this ain't it." It's too real, and he can't stop staring at her mouth.

[walkswithheroes]

"Maybe it's a spell that works because it doesn't feel like one," Fred guesses, but she knows it's an absolute shot in the dark. She only has a rudimentary understanding of how magic even works.

Maybe she should ask Tara.