just another day in paradise

[safeguarder]

Who: all you cool kids
What: family meeting
When: 9/15
Where: by the poool
Warnings: none yet


[bro this is all so disorganized. Shepard can hardly stand it -- but she's heard of the meetings that they had had in the past, and she's going to take it upon herself to do one of her own. they had to get all of their facts together somehow, at least.

it's the Leader Things in her.]

Everyone meet me near the pool. Between the apparent disappearances last month and what's been going on at the pool, we need to get our facts straight. Meet me here after school's over for the day.

[aaand she's there at her designated time, hoping that they'd at least try to listen to her and gather as she intended...

she's not going to lock anyone in or anything, but if you try to pass her by, she's going to give you A Look like you'd better mind her message. not that she's even close to punching someone out, but. there's probably something a little bit intimidating about the commander who's looking at you expectantly if you try to ignore her meeting.]

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we all had a fun time and nobody got eaten

[notsosou]

Atsushi... that was his name. It disappeared from the roster after...

[Shin checks the roster for changes fairly religiously, given his own true name is still on it. Feels strange to only know it after he died... he turns away from that unhelpful line of thinking.]

...Sidney's covered most of it. I ended up in the mirror room after opening the fourth floor door as well. Safe to say all of us did... [His thumb runs over the returned orange laser pointer in his pocket. After the lighter, he's not going to play that card in the open but... if someone else ended up in the mirror dimension for some reason...] Shining a light in their eyes made them back off... but only for so long. When they came back they were starting to control our movements... [His hand around his throat, his arms open wide for him.] Good thing we left, ahaha!

............ [He really doesn't like thinking At All about what came next. Found a way out huh... he can't help but wonder why Sidney's spinning it like that.] The pool didn't reflect the sky properly. We already knew mirrors could be moved through... [It was visible in the one he'd intended to return through - which the wolf was in the way of.]

[The passage between was a confused blur of eyes and being watched and blood and... Shin's not entirely sure if that wasn't Just Him and the incredibly high stress levels he was under at the time, so he doesn't mention it, hand buried in scarf.]

Sounds unbelievable but we came out through a storybook. Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf... that was us. [...Haruka...] Didn't really find anything in the library... the crawlspace had old dry blood in it. When I tried to open the library door Hajun and Sidney were on the other side... in the fourth floor hallway. That's when the smell of vanilla stopped.

[He's only realizing it in hindsight, but it was one of the indicators they really were back. His expression flashes pained as he recalls the very last detail.]

...there were bloody wolf footprints going down the stairs. [Nobody panic but there might, there might, be a ghost wolf loose in the school.]

[safeguarder]

[Shepard is going to listen to all of this patiently, thinking that there's a lot of information coming at her all at once. but she just takes it in stride, letting the words wash over and trickle down her mental filter.

but the ending...]

So what you're saying at the end is...we might have to keep our eyes out for a ghost wolf. Great.

[that's the first thing that comes out of her mouth, but she crosses her arms, leaning to one side slightly as she considers the rest.]

Did you recognize anything about the cottage? Or was it just as weird as appearing here in general?

[notsosou]

There hasn't been any sign so far at least...

[That he knows of but... yeah. It's not helping his stress levels one bit.]

Never seen the place before in my life.

[He's been a city lad his whole life... and this was the first and hopefully only time seeing it here in Yogen. Even expanding the mental search to fiction doesn't get anything specifically like it enough for the resemblance to be uncanny, apart from maybe illustrations in the storybook itself but I'd have to check with Ori.]

[safeguarder]

Yeah, well knowing how things typically go, it'll come back to kick us in the ass later.

[wishing she had a gun or something at this point...this is the actual worst.]

So then that's kind of a dead end too. It sounds like you tripped into a portal or something, but since there hasn't been any talk about more disappearances then I'm assuming it hasn't been tripped again.

[so that means there probably has to be specific parameters to get it to happen...]

[notsosou]

[That's Murphy's law at work again... a gun didn't do much against the wolf, admittedly.]

...Yeah. Nothing happened going through that door again, so looks like it was a one-time event. [At least for now. Hopefully forever.] If anyone else disappeared then... I don't know about it.

[Other people did, but, well.]

There's one more thing, as well. After we came back... the silence in the library lifted.

[That's probably a known fact at this point, but the timing is the thing here. Rantaro already knows, but it's something.]