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The sun is setting, and a car appears in the distance.

Inside is a 24-year old, a 7 year old, and an imaginary sister.

Lenore, exhausted, stops the car outside a farm that looks like it hasn't seen a drop of water in years, and promptly flops back onto the hood of the vehicle.

She's tired. She's hungry. Her hands are shaking and she's sweating and it takes everything she has to keep it from happening, and within a few minutes, it subsides. There are a few lights on in the farmhouse, she notices, and so she checks to make sure Bridgette is still asleep before walking over and knocking on the door.

"Hey," she calls, hoping someone hospitable will open the door, "I've got a kid with me."

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Lenore nods, stopping there to find an empty bed to place Bridgette in.

She covers the girl with a blanket, then continues after Will, confident that Bridge will be okay.

He finds the kitchen and tries not to look too confused at all the modern appliances, so far he knows where the bread is, because well its bread, everything else is harder.

Lenore looks around.

"Well, thank god there's electricity," she says, sounding relieved.

She sniffs the air, and her stomach growls very loudly.

"Electricity?"

"The stuff that powers those machines," she explains, motioning to the fridge and stuff (you know, assuming there is one).

"Has anyone explained anything about this place to you?"

"Nay, na really just been tryin' to na get in the way."

Also Val and Marley are usually too busy flirting/snarking with each other and it just hasn't come up before.

"Oh."

Lenore frowns.

"Well, that there --" she points "-- is a toaster. It toasts bread. That big thing is a refrigerator, it keeps things cold, like ice does -- that's the oven, it cooks things like fire does."

He nods, its easy enough to remember and its something that's easy sort of,

"Just been eatin' bread since was what I could find."

Lenore goes :O!!

"How long have you been here?"

"Only arrived last night, think got somethin' more with Marley just was tired when we got 'ere was all."

Since not long after there was a bed, Will slept and slept and amazingly didn't have too horrible nightmares though he knows that won't last.

"Oh. Shit, I thought you'd been here for days or something."

She opens the fridge and eyes the inventory.

It's not much, really.

"I'd cook you something, if I knew where anything was."

For now, she'll settle for bread as well. Toast, even.

"Tis some fruit an cheese in there somewhere, an nay only 'rrived little while ago. An ye dinna need to do that, been used to na eatin' a lot."

Which is sadly true and why even though he's strong and well built, Will also looks like he needs to be fed.

"I can see that," Lenore says, popping two pieces of bread into the toaster.

"Where, exactly, are you from, Will?"

"Nottingham, my family 'as a stall by the market though for the last few years been in Sherwood since Robin was made outlaw."

As he talks of Sherwood, there's something a bit other in his green eyes, old magic and truth.

Jesus.

"What's it like, there?" she asks, listening intently. "I've only read about the place."

He visibly relaxes, seeming older and bit more as he speaks for Sherwood is home and she is one of his men,

"Na sure could e'er do 'er justice, she's Sherwood, when I was there, 'er Green 'ad turned an light is full o'color. Does 'er best to watch o'er us though we do fail 'er at times."

Lenore smiles.

"It sounds beautiful," she says, just as the toast pops up. She then fetches butter from the fridge and butters the two slices, handing one to Will.

"Here. Eat."

The toast disappears rapidly, he tries to be neat really, but in the end he's a teenage boy who hasn't had enough to eat for a while,

"Thank ye an aye tis, tis Sherwood."

"I'm not from anywhere special like that," she says, tossing a napkin Will's way.

He catches it easily enough,

"Tis yer 'ome though so 'as to be special in someway."

She thinks about that for a moment.

"... nope, it isn't."

:D!

"Does it least 'ave a name?"

Will's going to make more toast and also find the cheese since bread and cheese is just one of the best thing ever.

"Washington, D.C. -- it's the capital of the country I'm from."

She knows there's no America yet.

"Oh aye, sounds like a good an proper name. Like somethin' the Romans would 'ave 'ad."

Now the toaster and the cheese are presenting a problem, toast then melt cheese or perhaps do both at the same time.

Lenore eyes him for a second and can tell what he's trying to do.

"Don't put that in there!" she says quickly. "It'll probably set the toaster on fire."

After some rummaging, she finds a spatula and frying pan. "Here, I'll make you one of the tastiest things ever."

GRILLED CHEESE FTW!