out of the fire, into the frying pan

[prescind]

Who: stefan salvatore (prescind) + katherine pierce (manipulative)
What: wtfing at their surroundings, exploring, figuring stuff out
When: early september
Where: cellar door, cassandra, all around

Content Warnings: probably some language to start.

Comments

[manipulative]

[ sometimes katherine forgets that stefan's still such a young vampire. almost two hundred and he hasn't experienced all the world vampirism has to offer. a part of her is glad that stefan hasn't become as jaded as she has to their surroundings. ]

There's some similarities.

[ she scrunches up her face as she tries to recall what had made her think of deerington. the sights and sounds most definitely aren't like the place they'd come from. ]

I think the Trench is in some country called Deer something. That's kind of close to Deerington. Maybe it's a neighbouring city.

[ doubtful. ]

[prescind]

Deerington was in a dream, Katherine. How can this place be neighboring to a city that was in a dream?

( stefan knows with magic that maybe it's possible but it's not something he's going to readily believe. he can't. that's just a little too farfetched. )

We could never leave Deerington to know but it was in a dream.

[manipulative]

The Trench is in Deer Country, Stefan.

[ it's all in the name, baby. katherine doesn't even think too hard about it. in her experience, sometimes the easiest explanations are the ones that are actually closer to the truth. ]

Deerington might have been a dream, but what happens when you get out of a dream? You wake up. [ she peers up at him. ] We've woken up.

[ and she's glad she's woken up with him. ]

[prescind]

Which just makes me question how the hell we got here in the first place.

( he rubs his hands over his face. he can still hear ravens nearby and he shifts uncomfortably, hating that he wants to look but doesn't want to see anything else. )

Do you see other bodies?