Charley hadn't really meant to scream. It just came out, her body all at once so loose that she fell back to the cabin floor, and so tense that she couldn't scramble away. The monster who loomed out of the darkness was bellowing some unearthly shriek, and it made her scream again. That was altogether too ladylike and childlike for her part, the urchin did have a reputation to uphold, so she buttoned her lip to keep it.
Even if she wasn't around anyone who might know her well enough.
"I'm..." Charley frowned, squinting through the figure in the dark. The monster was rather man-shaped, and spoke like one too. She shouldn't have been so surprised, this was who she had asked to answer her anyway. Not him exactly, but someone who would know where the urchin had wound up. And, more importantly at the moment, how to get back. "...lost. Seems like."
There was a strange shape digging into the underside of her trousers, and the more Charley regained her senses, the more it bothered her. She lifted herself away with a disgusted sigh, fully expressing her annoyance at the objects littering the cabin's dirty floor. She found herself muttering as well, not caring if the man above her could hear the criticism, "Dontcha ever clean up 'round here?"
Reaching beneath her, the urchin pulled out the wand. She frowned at it with unfamiliar eyes. This wasn't hers, so it must belong to the shrieking man above her. Charley managed to pull herself up to her feet, no thanks to the cabin's only other occupant, and thrust what had to be his wand back at the man. Not like she had any use for another one. "Issat yers?" She blinked at the man, then past him to squint out windows that were doing a fairly poor job of it. "Where's 'here' s'posed ta be, anyway?"
Even if she wasn't around anyone who might know her well enough.
"I'm..." Charley frowned, squinting through the figure in the dark. The monster was rather man-shaped, and spoke like one too. She shouldn't have been so surprised, this was who she had asked to answer her anyway. Not him exactly, but someone who would know where the urchin had wound up. And, more importantly at the moment, how to get back. "...lost. Seems like."
There was a strange shape digging into the underside of her trousers, and the more Charley regained her senses, the more it bothered her. She lifted herself away with a disgusted sigh, fully expressing her annoyance at the objects littering the cabin's dirty floor. She found herself muttering as well, not caring if the man above her could hear the criticism, "Dontcha ever clean up 'round here?"
Reaching beneath her, the urchin pulled out the wand. She frowned at it with unfamiliar eyes. This wasn't hers, so it must belong to the shrieking man above her. Charley managed to pull herself up to her feet, no thanks to the cabin's only other occupant, and thrust what had to be his wand back at the man. Not like she had any use for another one. "Issat yers?" She blinked at the man, then past him to squint out windows that were doing a fairly poor job of it. "Where's 'here' s'posed ta be, anyway?"