saltburnt groupchat.

[doped]

YELLOWJACKETS

SHAUNA, MELISSA, MISTY, NATALIE, LOTTIE, VAN, JACKIE the wilderness, it hears us

Guys

Cute!!!

did you catch that??

dinner

shauna gross

You know, rabbits are very social creatures that live in groups!

what's up doc? 🥕

CODING

Comments

[diarists]

we can't be honorable about this shit, people already want to kill us.
if we back down, we look weak.

[doped]

who gives a FUCK about looking weak? who are you trying to be strong for?
people are fucking dying shauna and we totally fucked a guy who didn't deserve it. why?

[diarists]

did we KILL him??? no.
saber said he's gonna kill misty.
some chick sent me a message saying she's taking us all out.
if we don't keep standing up as a WHOLE, we'll all end up under sheets on saturday.

is that what you want, nat??

[transponders]

Who?

[diarists]

@ getjinxed
whoever that is.

[temujackie]

i know her
kind of

[diarists]

how do you know like
every insane girl here?????

[temujackie]

[ shauna do you really wanna know the answer to that?? ]

she saved me from drowning when we were walking to the commune

[diarists]

so you owe her like
a life debt?????

[temujackie]

when did i ever say that?

[transponders]

Oh for gods sake

Silco said he would keep her in line. I'll let him know. Please don't threaten her back or do anything crazy.

[diarists]

what the fuck is a silco

[transponders]

Her dad(?)

He thinks he can keep the buzz off us but he wants our votes. Told him I'd think about it. but its not even the new round yet and he can't even keep her quiet, so I doubt his influence.

[diarists]

okay weird
why isn't anyone named anything normal here??

yeah, seems like a dud to me.
you got a plan b?

[transponders]

There's a Danny, a Tim, and a dead Paul. I guess that's it.

Uphold our end of the deal with the vampires, I guess? Hard to tell until Saturday morning shakes out :(

[doped]

i'd rather be dead than fuck with someone who doesn't deserve it

( frankly, i'd rather be dead than a lot of things. )

[diarists]

good to know you'd rather us all be dead than compromise your morals.
i mean, i sorta figured, but great to have confirmation.

[doped]

go fuck yourself shauna

[diarists]

i won't have to, you're gonna do it for me.

[doped]

( deep breaths, shaking. shauna still has a power of them that's like a blanket, like a curse. like she's it and it's here, demanding, treating every tragedy like an exchange, like tender owed. shed blood, my beautiful friends. )

i don't like it when you yell at me

[diarists]

[i'm typing, you big baby -- thought, but not said, because shauna's ten toes to the line that's been drawn and she knows in her soul: nobody else would understand. if she loses the yellowjackets, she's alone in the woods again, burying bones nobody else will remember to grieve.

instead:] i get it, she was nice to you. okay, great.
but it's still too late. it's all of us or none of us, nat.
i already made my choice.

[doped]

all of us or none of us

you're not gonna intimidate me? maybe you wanna go through my stuff to make sure i'm not hiding anything? maybe you wanna read my texts so you know i'm not working against you?
shocker. shauna shipman turned nice

[transponders]

NO YOU DO NOT

[doped]

( ???????????? )

misty chill

[transponders]

Don't say that again! You're the one who gets us all out, you have to live.