Chapter 37, everybody! Hey, this is pretty early in the day for me! Success….

Yuko13, thanks for the review! Heheh, kind of—Rae (scary-gun-lady), like Kelsey, is patterned off of myself (albeit more caustic). I tend to use them when I need another character to round out a story—don't worry, this is a no-Mary-Sue zone. And no, I didn't know that—*throws a belated pillow* I wonder why?...

Yu-Gi-Oh! © 1996 Kazuki Takahashi

Don't Starve © 2013 Klei Entertainment

Scary-gun-lady's name was Rae Dunway.

It was a piece of information she gave grudgingly, Yugi noted later. At the time, however, he had more pressing matters to focus on.

Wilson had quietly told him to keep his hat on while around "Miss Dunway"—Yugi wondered at that.

But Yami….

They had managed to get him out of the harness, down the steps into the springhouse—he was surprisingly light. Still cold, but not bitterly so….

Not good. Not good at all.

"Is he going to be all right?" Serenity asked quietly.

Yugi looked to Wilson, who was keeping one eye on them, one eye on Rae.

"He'll be fine," Wilson said, sounding distracted. "He just needs some rest."

Rae finally looked away from Yami to glare incredulously at Wilson. "Wow," she noised, sarcasm in every letter—she put Wilson and Willow's sarcasm to shame. Was there some sort of school or something where people learned snark? "You're rubbish at this, I hope you know."

"I would appreciate it if you did not undermine me on this," Wilson hissed back.

"Oi vey," Rae noised, turning and walking back up the stairs.

Willow looked at Wilson. "'Oi vey'?" she repeated.

"It's a saying," Wilson said, waving them off and following her up the stairs.

"I think they like each other," Willow declared, once he left.

"I could tell by the way they wanted to kill each other," Yugi said.

"You shouldn't be sarcastic—you're not good at it."

"I need more practice."

"He wasn't lying though, was he?" Serenity asked, bringing them crashing back down to reality. "Yami's not dying, is he?"

"No," Willow said flatly. "He's the Frost King—he can't die."

Yugi personally didn't think that was a prerequisite for dying or not, but he let it lie.

After all, he didn't want Yami to die either.

"And where do you think you're going?"

Rae turned to the advancing, irate-looking scientist. "Please—I know absolutely nothing about that thing, but I'm smart enough to recognize a dying beast when I see one."

"Really," Wilson noised, crossing his arms. "Well, as you point out, you know nothing about said beast; therefore, I request that you keep your opinions on the matter to yourself."

Rae tossed her head, obviously aggravated. "Hey!" she yelled suddenly, spotting Joey and Tristan in her garden. "Get out of there!"

She paused in her beeline long enough to glare at Wilson.

"This isn't over," she pointed out. "You still owe me an explanation."

"And I'll give you one soon enough," Wilson returned.

She made a dismissive noise, sensing the conversation was over, and returned to ousting the boys from her garden.

Wilson sighed and glanced up at the sky.

How was he going to explain this?