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Summer Picnic, Main Campfire, Friday afternoon

At lunchtime, the campfire area was set up with blankets, baskets, picnic tables, food, and ant problems. The groundskeeper who brought the ants was later sent home for the rest of the day. It turned out that he didn't really like picnics.

[OOC: I suck and completely forgot about this. Sorry about the relative lateness. It's a sunny and fairly comfortable day. I MOD WEATHER! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!]

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"I get that impression." She was quiet a moment, then said, "Here's the thing. Jack is one of my very best friends. He cares about what happens to you. So, I'm going to make sure he can help you, while I watch his back. Make sense?"

"I understand," he says after a pause. "But, I don't want anyone getting injured due to my world and it's...not so good aspects."

"Works both ways. We don't want you injured here, either. So... good with the bad." Parker shrugged. "I'm glad to hear you say that, though. Maybe-- maybe it won't be necessary?"

"Maybe," he says but doesn't sound entirely convinced. "I find myself doubting that though."

"Jack said there was an evil wizard." And he was hoping to shoot the guy. "You really think he's a threat to everyone in your world?"

"Yes," he says firmly. "He is. I have no doubts about that."

Parker nodded slowly, and took a sip of her Diet Coke. "Does he have any particular goals other than to be just, I don't know, evil? Rule the world, bring back dinosaurs, eliminate the color aqua?"

That makes him laugh and, again, he hadn't expected that. "Honestly, I don't know. I was young when he was first a dominant force. He's been gone for a very long time. His goal now is unclear. Power, I would guess. And a lot of it."

"Revenge, probably, too." Parker's read enough history to know what thwarted power-mongers are like. "Right. Well, hopefully? Your government will take care of him before you have to go back. And make the problem moot."

"No," he says, shaking his head. "Where I'm from, there is no government such as there is in America or in muggle England. We have a ministry but they may not be enough."

Parker's expression darkened as she thought. "No police force, or army? No usual agency to handle these threats?" She tapped her fingers on her soda can. "That's... unsettling." No wonder he was worried.

"No, there are people," he amends. "Just nothing in the sense of a police department or any agency such as that. And the power of this person...at one time, it was immense. Frightening."

"At one time." Parker pounced on that. "You said he was defeated before. They can't use the same measures this time?"

"I don't know," he admits. "I was young the first time. I only what I read and hear secondhand. Even before he was defeated the first time, it wasn't easy. And it was violent."

Parker nodded, biting into an apple, eyes narrowing as she thought. "I'm glad you're here, and not there. For now, anyway. But when you do go back, you'll have back-up." She chewed and swallowed. "We may not have magic, but some of us are damn sneaky. And mean." She grinned wickedly, twirling the apple in her hand, probably looking like Snow White's Wicked Queen, if only Cedric knew it.

"If that time comes," he says quietly, "I'll remember that."

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