[ an argument for the future: why should they want to keep klaus out when he wasn't aiming to hurt them? or, more specifically, when he was aiming not to hurt her? but since stefan doesn't bring it up, caroline doesn't have to defend him.

instead, she simply shrugs, holding out her hand for him to inspect if he wants to. ]

It's not. [ this entire hellscape is impossible on its own. add in glowing chest cubes, weird magic powers, and the loss of their compulsion, and things from home popping out of her chest and winding up in her pocket just doesn't feel that weird in comparison. ] I mean, none of this is possible, right?

[ caroline can't think about it too much or her head will explode. ]

I'm apparently not the first person who's woken up with stuff out of the blue, though. So it's not just me.