Chapter 38, everybody! In which some grilling occurs….
Yuko13, thanks for the review! No, this Rae is different from Chaos City Island Rae (although thank you for checking that out!), and no, she isn't a Chaos Creature. I actually was wondering why this one was harder to review than CAD, but that's an interesting tidbit (any excuse to pummel siblings is a good excuse :D). I do celebrate Easter, but considering it's a floating holiday, seeking something else to wish someone is a safe activity (I think last year Easter fell the week after St. Patrick's Day—we were scrambling to change the decorations in my Mom's shop that year *~*).
Yu-Gi-Oh! © 1996 Kazuki Takahashi
Don't Starve © 2013 Klei Entertainment
"Okay. You. Talk. Now."
Yugi and Willow both looked to Wilson—whom, Yugi felt, was not being very helpful at the moment.
They were in scary-gun-lady's house, in a room that seemed to function as both living room and kitchen. It was big and open and rustic with a little bit of flair—someone had carved sworls into all the surfaces perpendicular to the floor. Willow and Yugi—still with his hat on, even though it was beginning to get itchy in the heat—sat at the table across from the glaring Rae.
Wilson, meanwhile, was very steadily pacing the room, taking measured steps and looking all over. Nosy did not even begin to describe his actions, Yugi felt. He was tempted to tell Wilson he'd sprout antlers if he wasn't careful, but felt that that statement wouldn't go over well.
When it became evident that Wilson wasn't going to answer Rae, Yugi cleared his throat.
"Well, it's like this," he started, then paused, feeling like that wasn't enough.
So he carefully explained that they were from Frostmore, that Joey's sister Serenity had come down with pneumonia—
"Viral or bacterial?" Rae asked suddenly.
"Bacterial," Wilson answered from across the room—he was looking at the log walls now. "She needed hot dry air to recover properly."
"Or a big dose of penicillin."
Yugi looked at Willow to see that she was just as befuddled. Big dose of what?
"I should hope that you realize that wasn't exactly an option," Wilson said, still with that infuriating calmness.
"Is she contagious?" Rae asked.
"It was from complications of living in Frostmore, so I highly doubt it."
Rae shook her head, then indicated that Yugi could continue. He did so, describing the Frost King.
But as he did so, he couldn't help but hold back a little. Wilson didn't entirely trust her—why?
But then again, right now Yugi didn't entirely trust Wilson—and he didn't know why that was either.
But even so, he heeded Wilson's advice and avoided referring to Yami by name. When he finished, Rae glanced between him and Willow and Wilson—the latter of which was now walking slowly across the floor.
"So you use this 'Frost King' to get off the mountain," Rae summarized. "What was the plan once you were in the Sunlit Kingdom? Sell it?"
Yugi couldn't help but be aghast at the news. "No!" he exclaimed.
"Yami's our friend!" Willow snapped, before common sense could edit her statement.
Rae's expression was indescribable. "Yami!?"
But at that same moment, Wilson jumped up and down on the floor, eliciting a loud squeak from the boards.
Rae was on her feet at once. "Out! OUT! Everybody out!"