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[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

Who: All the good little anti-entropy engine girls and boys and others
Where: On the way back towards the dorms
When: Day 258, evening, so very shortly after Good Ends
What:

[As the festivities end and it’s time to head back to dorms, there seems to hang an uneasy feeling that has nothing to do with bittersweet goodbyes. The particularly astute may notice an uncomfortable stillness about; not a living thing is out and active, save the Blanks. Even the river seems stilled, as if holding its breath. The more sensitive can probably feel it coming, whatever it is. Even the insensitive may find something about the walk home distasteful.]

Comments

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

[I'm a spazzing bundle of terror]

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

I-I think it stopped.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

It's too early to know. We should send out a probe. Where's the dog?

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

We're not sending out the dog! I can—I can just call the Maiden. She'll know.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

...

We can tie a rope around his midsection. It'll be fine.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

. . . Let's just keep the door closed for now.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Proposal accepted. How much food do we have? We can last twice as long if we cut the rations in half, that's just simple math!

[back to pacing]

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

We can't stay in here forever. Just—just until we're sure he's gone.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

A couple of weeks isn't forever! Or months. Months are good, too! A perfectly fine measurement of the passage of time.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

We can't afford that long!

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Who do you think it got?

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[righthandsmoke.insanejournal.com]

I don't want to think about that.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Maybe it just wants us to think it stopped. Maybe it's lying in wait!

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wheresthemoney.insanejournal.com]

[hooray for freaking out] Fuck- it's really fucking happening-

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

It's quiet now. A little too quiet.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wheresthemoney.insanejournal.com]

... I ain't going out there.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Nobody's going out there!

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wheresthemoney.insanejournal.com]

[staring at the ground like it's gonna eat him... oh wait]

Fuck. We ain't gonna be safe in here either.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Safer than outside! It'll get them before it gets us. Probably had a bunch of snacks already...

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wheresthemoney.insanejournal.com]

Shit. Are we all here? [l-looking around. sob]

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

We're all here. We made it!

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wheresthemoney.insanejournal.com]

[That's one less thing to worry about]

...

So what do we do now?

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

We wait for an all-clear.

...Or, failing that, send out the dog as a probe.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[wheresthemoney.insanejournal.com]

Tch. Either way, we wait till tomorrow.

Re: [In Mt. Skullcrusher]

[crazylikeavulp.insanejournal.com]

Bingo! That's the important part.