“I knew it!” Allana exclaimed, then clapped a hand over her mouth and laughed, the noise half self-deprecation at exclaiming such a weird thing and half delighted pride at discovering that she did in fact seem to have fairly good instincts and powers of observation. I can too handle myself, she thought triumphantly in the direction of an absent extended family a reality-jump away. “Sorry,” she continued aloud as she moved her hand away from her mouth and twisted the corners up in a wry smile.
She darted a quick glance around the diner, not exactly eager to start babbling about the apocalypse if other diner patrons and employees were paying attention, and then leaned forward, bringing her elbows up onto the table and lowering her voice into a more conspiratorially hushed tone. “I’m the one who sounds crazy now aren’t I? It’s just, as crazy as this sounds and will probably continue to sound for awhile, what happened to you isn’t actually uncommon for this place. I was on a ship bound for Coruscant a couple weeks ago. I stepped into the corridor and then I was suddenly in a park. It’s happened to a lot of us, there’s a place for us to live set up and waiting. We’re...well, the short version is that we’ve sort of been tapped to fight the apocalypse. This isn’t our reality so our communications devices won’t work, people you know probably don’t exist here, and right now, I’m sorry, we can’t get home” It was a credit to the future politician that she supposedly destined to be that Allana managed to deliver that soliloquy without betraying how silly she felt saying it out loud, manner as composed as if she were being completely logical. Which I a actually am, much good it will probably do me she thought wryly.
“If you do think that’s too crazy to be real do you mind telling me what specimens have to do with this before you run screaming? And what Donnie Darko is? And...I think I’d especially like to know why you think I’m going to eat you.” She grinned and wrinkled her nose a little, “I mean, I told you I was hungry but that’s a bit extreme isn’t it?”