The mention of Vlad made her tighten. Fuck. Dracula was in town. As if this couldn't get any worse. Her hesitation showed, though she did her best to cover it up as they entered the forest. As she asked about Helena and Daniel, Joanie shook her head numbly. "Sorry, I don't even know who they are." She shrugged somewhat, raking her fingers through her hair and sighing.
As she spoke up, Joanie looked over at her with an expression that was immediately irritated but quickly calmed into resignation. "I have no idea what Heart of Darkness is, but if everybody ends up fucked, then yeah. I'd have to agree with that comparison." She glanced about, realizing that she was lazy and didn't want to stand. And really, if they were all going to just die, what would it hurt if this Ella girl knew about her magic?
She stooped into the snow, whispering a string of words that turned a pile of it into a wooden stool. She repeated the action, creating a second and sitting down on it. She gestured from Ella to the stool. "I mean this is the third day we've been here. If we were ever getting back...wouldn't we be back already?"