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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.]

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[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[Waiting for the others to return home just outside the dorms, trying to ignore the unpleasant feelings.]

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Coming back from the baths . . . and stopping, when she sees him.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[stares at you for a few seconds, then turns away]

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Just . . . keeps waking then, toward him and the dorm both.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[blatantly ignoring]

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[And there's half a second, where she pauses . . .

hear that can you hear that can you

and breaks out into a dead run, heading straight for him.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[... frowns at that, looking around for any disturbances]

[roadtothesky.insanejournal.com]

[Looks over her shoulder as she runs, west and south . . . and reaches out for him.]

Zero! We can't . . . we have to move!

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[grabs that hand an quickly shoves her inside]

I'll find the others.

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[It's hard to tell if it's FEELINGS or just having stared off into the darkness so long that makes the scenery seem... different.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[Goddammit people, why are you not home yet? Frowns and looks around to reorient himself]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The water around the geardorm seems to flatten, even the current dying a moment ... before it starts to churn wildly, disorganized eddies becoming actual waves striking the island's shore.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[Okay he's looking around for the others, where the hell are they?!]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[The water begins to part as a small island heaves up out of what was once simple, deep water, before stilling.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[Pauses to stare at the island, debating how far it is from the dorm and if he could run fast enough should something happen... and approaches it carefully]

[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

[It's in the middle of the small lake pooled, it'd be a good swim.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[chucks a rock at the direction of the island]

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[WAS ALSO AT HOME]

Hey...maybe we shouldn't be outside.

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

Then go inside, Tide.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

I was planning on it. But the others aren't back yet...

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

The both of us don't need to be waiting for them.

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[And then you will be out here alone with potential doom. Stays put stubbornly if uneasily. :|]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[Feathers is yelling at us to go inside]

[overclocking.insanejournal.com]

[You deal with that, I'm going to go examine why the ground is eating itself over here.]

[type_0.insanejournal.com]

[If it pulls you in you are in so much trouble mister.]