It's, uh... hard to explain. You just. Probably shouldn't. For your own sake.

... Right.

( Putting the marker away and taking the phone. Entering her contact, including her location as "Scarlet Hollow but don't go there". )

If you're sure, then, um...

( Pulling out a marker, but they don't have any paper, and it's not like they could write it on Pearl's arm because that would be weird... So she just ends up standing there holding an uncapped marker. )

// adeline and pearl are having this conversation on the very edge of the town border /j

Yes.

Shit, um. But you probably shouldn't. It's- I'll be fine.

But it's true.

S. Same here. Haha.

You won't be able to save everyone.
You might not even be able to save yourself.
Welcome home.

Can you hear the sweet whispers of new growth?

You can't, you can't, you can't...
But you did.

Your daughter leaves you. You resign yourself to the future.
She is one of the first to die. The streets are flooded with disease, and the bodies are buried, then burned, then left in heaps on the streets, until no one is left to remember any of their names.
But that's not how it happened.

The flood comes, and despite your best efforts, the village is swallowed. A thousand bodies and a thousand homes.
But that's not how it happened. This has already come to pass, and there is no changing it now, no matter how much you might wish it had all gone differently.

The hole where he was is filled by lesser men, none of whom remember whose shoes they're stepping into, and none of whom can hope to command the way he would have.
Blood is spilled. Less blood. But you still feel every drop.

- Anyways. Where'd you say you were headed?
- Home, I think. I've never been, but I've felt it like a call at the back of my mind for as long as I can remember. Some things can only be put off for so long.

I'm going to die too.

( ... Girl? )

Um. Maybe. Not confirmed. Hashtag Praying.

it's wet

The, um... curse.

>visiting a new town
>ask the general store owner if the town is creepy or wet
>she doesnt understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is creepy and what is wet
>she laughs and says "its a good town miss"
>stay the night
>its wet

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( About to say "me neither" but remembering people have Died. )

... G-Good for you.

Gretchen? Michael? Duke? Are you alright?
"Woe is me, a postmodern Cassandra."

( Smiling and dreamily reminiscing about Kaneeka but halfway through remembering all the shit that's happened this past week and going back to her usual frown. )

Oh... I-I mean, yeah, that too, but I was. I was mainly thinking about how the presence of girls has led me to places I wouldn't go with a gun.

It's- It's a curse, sometimes...

(staring at pearl off at the side) ...... no, the thread is severed

Morgan.
20.
She/her.

Pity, Cassandra, that no one believed you... But, then again, you were lost from the start.

Gretchen? Adeline? Duke? Are you alright?
"Woe is me, a postmodern Cassandra."

What I'm like...? Uh, I'm not sure how to answer that... I'm... normal?

( No, you're not. )

... No, I'm not. I dunno. Probably just ask Stella, if she. Remembers me and not you.