Safety is a Drug & I Want to be Your Dealer

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Bryan didn't like this one bit. Nate and Macallan had gone off to look for food early in the day, but the weather here by the lakes had proven to be unpredictable. Fog had rolled in around them, making it difficult to see, and Bryan had told everyone to break down camp. They needed to get out of here to a place where they could see more than thirty feet ahead of them. In this fog, they would be an easy target for anyone better equipped to deal with it.

Once camp was broken down, though, he was starting to notice something was... off about Nate. Though Nate either hadn't noticed, didn't care, or was trying to act like everything was okay. Glancing around, he noticed Macallan had a strange look on his face too. Shit. Bryan walked over and gripped Nate's upper arms. "Hey. Hey, Earth to Nate, you okay?" he said, trying to hold Nate's gaze for a minute, before looking over his shoulder to find Thalia with his eyes. She was their medic. "Hey, something's up," he told her, then jerked his head in the direction of Macallan. "Check on him. What's wrong with them?"

Tag: Thalia Tait , @nate , @macallan

[Thalia Tait]

Overly worried boyfriend looked at overly thinking mother hen and she said... "Alright, alright, one moment," Thalia trudged over to Bryan, still yawning a bit and rubbing her eyes. For as often as she had woken up before the sun to sneak out of camps, this morning was unusually difficult to wake up to. It was probably the horse riding. She just wasn't used to it and it made her overly tired and achey. 

Looking at Nate, she frowned in concentration and gripped him by the chin. Fever? No. Maybe it was a stomach ache? With her cooking last night, definitely not. Looking at his eyes, she saw his pupils were dilated. Uh oh. That was rather familiar. Looking nervously over at Bryan, she managed a nervous smile. "W-Well... I think he's high," she stepped away from Nate, looking back at him curiously, "Eat anything especially yummy there, Sparky?" She couldn't help it. It was just a little funny, considering the last time the Delinquents had eaten something 'funny'. And then kept eating them. The fog was cool and she hugged her arms, looking over at Jay Macallan and seeing a similarly loosey-sprucey look to him as well. Okay. Not funny anymore. "Nova Above!" she went to the other boy, "They're both floating high! Blackhole Gravity! What the heck did you guys eat?!"

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((ooc// I AM SO SORRY. Nate being high makes me giggle))

Nate had only eaten the berries because he had been hungry and he wasn't thinking clearly. He'd gone with Jay to look for food, guarding his back while the rest remained at camp. A camp that had taken a bit to pull together and now it was being pulled apart. Fog that hadn't been there before had rolled in when they weren't looking and now he couldn't even peer into the fog without seeing, well, fog. He grinned as he helped pack away camp before he stood upright, staring off into the distance. His mind wasn't even with him right now, suffice to say it was completely away with the fairies.

Movement shifted in the fog, almost like a dark shadow gliding through without touching the ground. Nate stared at it, followed it with his eyes

As Bryan touched his arm, he almost yelped, pulling his arm away before relaxing the moment his gaze focused and he saw Bryan. "I'm okay now that you're here. Did you see that?" He pointed into the fog, the shadow having disappeared; it disappeared because it was merely a hallucination born of his digesting the berries. He waited patiently for Thalia to check him out after being called over, though that didn't stop him from fidgeting. "You're high." He countered like a five year old, sticking out his tongue. "Relaaaaaaaax. You guys are so tense."

Miller shook his head. "I ate food?" He giggled. "Do you have any water, I'm thirsty."

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Macallan's eyes were wide, hardly paying attention to the others as they looked over Nathan Miller. He wasn't considering anything really, caught up in his own hazy mind. The fog was thick and it was fading out everything else. Macallan held his hand out in front of him, staring intently at his palm as he moved it toward his face, and then back, then moved it toward him, and then back. He kept the repeated action until he accidentally smacked his face. "MY HAND!" He cried out, turning around frantically as if the body part had attacked him of its own accord. No one was near. But he heard them. Blinking several times, he turned his gaze forward as a young woman suddenly appeared. "WOAH!" He exclaimed in surprise, jumping back in shock at her sudden presence.

The unexpected presence had been enough to make him stumble to the ground, sitting up to look at her, wide eyed and spaced out. "The fog . . . it's magic. You just, appeared!" Well, this was certainly going to inspire a new song. He used his hands to move back, away from the magic possessing woman, only stopping when he felt his back collide into the legs of another. He spun around, now sitting on the ground facing the other direction as he looked at their leader. "AND YOU!" Both of them. With Thalia on one side and Bryan on the other . . . Jay was surrounded. "They're coming . . . " He said in a whispered voice, warning the others, staring at the nothingness in front of him as if they would emerge as suddenly as Thalia, Bryan and Nathan had.

Tag;; @bryanbryanbryan , Thalia Tait , @nate

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Shit. This was definitely not good. Nate and Jay were clearly very high on... something. Bryan offered Nate his flask when he asked if he had water, because whatever they ate could have dehydrated them, for all Bryan knew, and watched as Thalia assessed the other Arker. He didn't appreciate her flippant tone too much, but at least she seemed to know what was going on with them. He was quickly distracted from Thalia's tone, however, by the way Jay seemed to be freaking out far more than Nate was, though. God, if ever there was a time he needed Nate sane, it was now, but Bryan wasn't that lucky.

He looked at Thalia. "We need to get out of this fog before it swallows us up like quicksand. We need to find shelter until they come down from... whatever the hell they ate," he told her. He glanced between Nate and Jay. He'd planned to have Thalia keep her eyes on Jay to make sure he wouldn't wander off. Jay was a musician, not a fighter like Nate, and would be easier for her to handle... or so he thought. But it looked like Nate was pretty relaxed, and Jay was going to be more of a handful.

"Take him. We need to go. Make sure he doesn't wander off," he told Thalia, indicating his boyfriend, before looking at Nate. "Stay with her, okay?" he said, and then crouched in front of Jay. "No one's coming," he told him calmly. "But we've got to go," he added, pulling Jay gently to his feet and starting them walking.

Tag: Thalia Tait , @nate , @macallan

[Thalia Tait]

Thalia pursed her lips. This would have been hilarious still if they weren't in such a vulnerable area, surrounded by fog and on a time-sensitive schedule. These two... They were high out of their minds! Miller was thirsty so maybe water would dilute whatever they had  eaten and get some sense out of the both of them... Thalia followed Bryan's suit and gave her water to Jay, still musing over how he had unceremoniously smacked himself in the face, and his delayed reaction to her getting close to examine him. Delayed senses, low reaction time, low rationality... Oh boy, this was soooo not good! They needed to at least find a place to bunker down in, till Skippy and Sparky got sobered up. Hallucination in fog was just a little too risky for someone as skittish as her. 

"Yupe, I am your Star-Shooting fairy godmother..." she pursed her lips and muttered under her breath as Jay stumbled about and spoke of people coming. Thalia cleared her throat and smiled her warmest smile, using her most comforting tone. They needed to get a move on to find somewhere to hunker down and no one was going to stick together unless they either had to or wanted to. And she was hoping for the latter. She nudged Bryan with her elbow. "Smile (if you even can). Talk low and soft," she murmured to him, "Maybe we can make them come along easier if they are relaxed."

"Hey guys~ Hiya~" she made her voice as warm and sweet as honey in sunshine, moving slow and gentle, "Bryan here wants to go to a really nice safe place. You guys wanna come with? If you stick close to us no one will be able to get you." Thalia got the deal. Bryan would look after simpering Jay and she'd look after sweetie Miller. Easy enough if the two boy cooperated. "Here now... Jay hold onto Bryan and no one will be able to see you. Very good~ You're doing great~" she slipped her arm around Miller's, smiling warmly, patting his hand slowly, softly, "Now, you can hold onto me, okay? There~ Now we're invisible! Let's go somewhere nicer, okay? Let's go somewhere lots nicer~"

@bryanbryanbryan @macallan @nate

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Quicksand. Nate giggled, almost spitting out the water that he was drinking after Bry gave him it. He didn't know why he found the word so funny. "Quicksand. It tickles the tongue." Nate would have come up with a stupid joke about quicksand but found his brain wasn't exactly co-operating. Instead he stayed near Thalia as Bryan went over to Jay, the other guy not really at lease like Nate, more of a handful than the chilled Miller. "Relaaaaaax." Of course telling someone to relax didn't always make them relax.

"I'll follow Bry anywhere." Nate winked, almost tripping over his feet in the process. He couldn't even get the emotions to care that he almost fell on his face. He was so relaxed and calm and giggly at the same time it was such a strange feeling. He'd been high before, back on the Ark with Jasper and Monty but that had been months ago and not quite the same.

Nate stared at the fog. "I don't want to be eaten by that. It has teeth." He bared his teeth playfully and rawred until Thalia took his arm and he responded by almost clinging onto her while Bryan dealt with Jay. He narrowed his eyes at Jay, the silent promise that if he hurt Bry then Nate would step in(and fail due to his high mental state). He couldn't do much right that moment anyway since Thalia was helping him move and that was probably for the better. He wasn't exactly sure where they were going and if she knew, they wouldn't be lead astray, right?

@macallan @bryanbryanbryan Thalia Tait