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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...

It hadn't killed her. Jess let out a breath she hadn't really known she was holding, and realized that she was shaking. She hadn't been before, but now that it was over... was it over? But... no, whatever it was hadn't seemed like it was coming back. It had just run off, trying to get as...

It kept growling at her, but the growls lacked the intensity of the first one. She still gave it a moment or two, every time it made a sound, letting it quiet down again before she crept in further. The growls diminished, each one a little less ferocious than the one before. By the end of it...

Jess stopped, when it growled. That had been a warning; she didn't need to know what sort of creature this was to be able to interpret that much. She took a step back, waiting for it to calm down again, giving it time. She could always run, she supposed - especially if it was stuck. She...

"You're in rough shape, huh?" Jess didn't change the tone of her voice, keeping it steady as it had been, but she couldn't help but notice the closer she got, the worse off this thing actually looked. It was still terrifying. It hadn't stopped being terrifying - but it also looked like it had...

It was curious, Rhetta thought, listening to this perspective of Mathis Guiscard - a man who needed advice, who didn't heed it. A whisper of unsettled disloyalty from a son who loved him. It was nothing she'd ever been privy to, really. She had known the man, certainly - perhaps not as well...

The trek out went without too much issue. There were a few check-ins from various parties, which made Amy feel a lot better somehow. It was comfortable, familiar, the sound of people doing their jobs. She left them to it while she pondered the information that Lanes had supplied. None of it...

It was definitely down here. It was not, despite what Jess had said in some sort of whimsical manner hoping for a twist of irony, anything like a kitty. It was also currently not moving - or, not moving around, anyway - it was definitely squirming. Regardless, that meant that Jess had a...