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Who: Hiling Care and Tieria Erde
What: Revival
Where: home
When: July 15
Warnings: post-death trauma

It wasn't until five days after the carnival that Hiling finally appeared back in her room.  The nightmare was finally over, but not for her.  Wide-eyed, she looked slowly toward the window.  To her horror, what she saw pouring into her room was the same mist that killed her.  She screamed and ran for the door, not realizing that she was hallucinating.  Running for Tieria's room, she pounded on the door.

"Tieria?  TIERIA!  Let me in!

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[vedaandme]

"Hiling?"

Tieria was confused. He hadn't realized she was back. Out of habit, he'd been keeping his room locked, especially now that he'd regained his gun. Her panic, though, certainly sounded genuine. He got up and opened it, gun ready just in case, both against her and to defend her.

"What is it?"

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She burst in through the door, slamming it behind her. Trembling, she pointed as she backed away. It was all very real to her. She didn't want to go through that again when she had just come back.

"It followed me!"

[vedaandme]

"What are you talking about?" Gun still ready, he slowly opened the door to look. He saw nothing.

"This had better not be another prank," he snapped at her.

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"Close the door! The fog will get in!"

Retreating, she crouched behind his bed. She didn't know if the door could even hold it back, but she at least wanted something between her and certain death. This was the kind of thing she couldn't defend herself against and that terrifies her.

[vedaandme]

"What fog?" He swung the door wide open. "There is no fog." He looked mildly annoyed. "Where have you been, anyway? You go missing for days and this is how you come back?"

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Hiling gasped and dove to the floor. She saw it. The fog was creeping towards them. Couldn't he see this was no time to talk?

"Look out!"

[vedaandme]

"For what?" He was getting impatient and it was showing in his voice. He walked over, leaving the door wide open, and went to pull her up off the floor. "There is nothing there!"

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She flailed uselessly, squinting her eyes shut. But when she finally opened them, she found, to her surprise, that the fog was gone. She blinked, wondering where it went.

"It was just here..."

[vedaandme]

"..."

That was very annoying.

"Will you just say what it was?" he snapped. She came bursting in there, panicked over apparently nothing, and now it was just gone? Tieria was unhappy.

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Sitting up straight, she looked around the room, but it was still nowhere to be seen.

"It was the fog from the carnival. At least I thought it was. Am I seeing things?"

[vedaandme]

He sighed.

"There was no fog here." He turned and sat down on the bed. "Where have you been?" It had been odd, because nothing seemed out of place in the house except for the fact that Hiling was missing. It was like no one had noticed, and that sort of bothered Tieria a little. It meant something was going on.

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She let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that there was nothing coming to kill her after all. She thinks back to that unpleasant time at the carnival.

"I went into the fun house at the carnival one day and came out somewhere else. Weird things happened there. There was no edible food, and after a few days, that's when the fog came. It just consumed everything and I couldn't escape."

[vedaandme]

"But I came back sooner than you," Tieria said. He had been through that fun house, too. "How is that possible?"

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She shook her head. "I don't know. Did you die there too?"

[vedaandme]

"There were no incidents until the fog." Tieria had explored quite a bit. He felt oddly lucky that nothing had happened. He wasn't going to question it for now. It was better that way sometimes.

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"How long was I gone?" She smiled a little. "You know, for once I'm actually relieved to see you again. Did you miss me?"

[vedaandme]

"Several days."

He studied her for a moment, one eyebrow slightly cocked upward, then he looked away again towards the window.

"It was quiet." His tone was neutral.

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She would take that as a yes. Of course he missed her. "What do we do now?"

[vedaandme]

"We have to find out what we can," Tieria said. "That carnival and the way it functioned, with the fun house portal, it could be a valuable clue."

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"I explored a lot, but I didn't really get anything out of it. Did you go in any of the houses?"

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"I did, but I did not find anything that seemed important," he said. He had heard others had encounters. For the most part, other than no food or water, and the strangeness of the entire place, Tieria had been oddly fortunate.

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"So all we know is that it's just another one of those things that happens here." Discouraged, she slouches.

[vedaandme]

"Unfortunately, it does seem to be that way," Tieria said, his tone suggesting he wasn't any happier about it than she was.

"We need to use what we learned there, though. Perhaps there was something that can give us a clue."

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"Let me know if you come up with something. I'm going back to bed. Not feeling well."

She got back up, holding her head. Even though the hallucinations were gone, she still felt like curling up in her bed.

[vedaandme]

If he remembered correctly, she was still human. She would have rubbed it in at him if she'd gotten her Innovade physiology back.

"There may be some aspirin in the bathroom cabinet. It might help."

He might be trying to be nice here...

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She paused on her way out the door. It was unexpected, but she appreciated the gesture. She wouldn't acknowledge it, but she did make a stop in the bathroom for some aspirin before heading to her room.