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Good grief, that thing was fast. Jess started a little bit when its head shot out, hoping that her movement hadn't scared it, but it seemed pretty focused on the sandwich, which it had eaten in one bite, more or less. "Guess you're an omnivore, then." That, or it was just really starving -...

Amy gave the kid another minute, making sure he was as composed as he was going to get. Truthfully, his lack of composure was reassuring. If a person saw that sort of scene and wasn't kind of freaked out by it, that usually wasn't a good sign. Best case scenario, they were someone like here...

Tornir had a great many questions. Nick was... unsurprised. He had only known her for - what, perhaps a few hours? Maybe less, it was hard to tell sometimes, in dungeons. Regardless, she had spent most of that time asking questions. He hadn't minded, really. It had filled the silence...

Emil had the notebook out, and Zahir tried to remind himself that research was equally important. Some people said it was more important, even, but Zahir tended to give those sorts of people A Look. Still, Search had its uses, and Sever... for whatever else it was worth, part of the job was...

"Drat." The curse was mild, compared to the one that Mask had just unleashed, but Lucille wasn't prone to swearing - not any more. She'd sworn with the best of the boys, once upon a time, when she'd been a fighter pilot with the British air force - and then one of the Germans had shot her...

Well. It was certainly a lot more interested in the sandwich than it had been in the scale. It was being cautious about it, though, watching it but holding back. Jess scooted back a little further, just in case that helped. It was weird to think that this thing could be afraid of her - it...

Amy nodded at the description - she couldn't say she knew particularly much about trophy hunting, but any information could end up being valuable. The next time they wound up in the office, she'd take a look at the elk... thing... and see if it meant anything to her, or if it meant anything to...

It didn't seem to want the scale. It also... put down some sunglasses? Jess was just as confused about what to do with them as the creature seemed to be about her own offering. She did, however, make note of its dexterity in fishing them out of the bag. It had known where to look, too, known...

She saw it coming. Of course she did - how many times had this played out before? How many times had they been in situations like this one? None of what was going to happen would be a surprise. Perhaps, in her softer moments, Lydia had hoped for a surprise, hoped that this time, this cycle...

Horrifying story. Amy knew better than to interrupt; she just let the kid run on for a while until he would down, listening to things as he told them. She wondered how old he would have been back then - ten maybe? Young enough that he wouldn't have been told most of the details, old enough...

Jess stood there for long enough that it occurred to her to wonder how long she had actually been standing there, then blink and try to recover some sense of... what? sanity? normalcy? reality? Maybe any of those things, she wasn't exactly sure. Everything that she was being presented with...

After a couple hours, Jess wasn't sure if she was going to find anything at all. She'd gotten to the point where she felt like she was just wandering around for the sake of something to do, and was coming to the realization that if she'd just wanted to wander around for the sake of something to...

Well. Amy could at least see why the others didn't believe the kid. Ghost stories - the sorts of things kids told each other around the campfire to scare each other. Maybe some of them believed it. Maybe someone would have believed him, if things had been different. Amy... Amy had seen...

Amy gave him a minute, letting him have time to breathe air that didn't smell like a corpse, doing the same thing herself although she was more surreptitious about it. He cleared his tears, his thoughts, and as she had suspected, when he was ready he started talking. It was hesitant, of...

Amy hadn't actually noticed the lack of other creatures until Lanes had pointed it out. Fortunately, she'd been on the force for long enough at this point that her poker face was near perfect, and so she could just give him a nod and appear inscrutable. That was part of the job, too - she'd...