notrocketscience

She doesn't know how she ended up here, exactly. Raven remembers walking down the street, remembers feeling her stomach rumble and deciding she should eat, but everything from that point on seems like something out of a fever dream. The place is called The Enchanted Forest of Pizza, and that probably should have been her first clue that things weren't going to be normal. She'd made the mistake of hesitating outside, the lure of pizza overriding her better common sense.

There'd been nothing remotely appetising on the menu she'd glanced at - everything seems to be some weird horrible combination of ingredients that should never go together let alone be on a pizza - but a waiter had grabbed her arm and pulled her inside talking excitedly before she could protest. Now, she's being watched by a handful of creepy terracotta gnomes with jaunty Santa hats as he pulls her through the strangest looking restaurant she's ever seen, seating her at a table that already has a man sitting at it.

"This one's taken--" she protests uselessly, but the waiter is already talking over the top of her, announcing the specials loudly and with a smile that she's pretty sure is going to cause his face to crack.

If nothing else, the gnomes have definitely made her forget she had any appetite at all, and Raven looks at the guy across from her helplessly. She recognises him, remembers him washing up on the beach months ago, looking like hell. Now he just looks as bewildered as she does. "Bodhi, right?" she asks, ignoring the waiter who's still powering on determinedly, almost robotic. "I'd apologise for crashing your table but I don't think I had a choice in the matter."