Artie set Madeleine L'Engle's broach on the dashboard and wondered if the two teenagers sharing the car with him would notice the way the scenery would occasional waver and transform as they skipped through more than half the 8 hour drive to Minneapolis.

Well, it wasn't like they hadn't been exposed to the wonders of the Warehouse already.

He glanced at Claudia in the rearview mirror several times.

"You had to bring the giant along, didn't you? It couldn't have been one of your rational friends. . . ."

Claudia rolled her eyes. "He's protective, okay? He's making sure you don't offend my girlish sensibilities."

( A girl genius, a crotchety professor, and a werewolf get into a car. . . . )

[ooc: preplayed with the magnificent, marvelous mad madam mim need_no_moon. NFB, NFI. First post of at least a couple, today.]