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The sun had already begun to set, a coolness that came with the turning of autumn slowly fell over the trees, and there was a moment that Yuina glanced up from the equipment that she held as a certain crisp change in the air felt a bit too familiar... From one year ago in this same place...[break][break]
She shook it off and tried not to pay much mind as she looked back over her readings and the equipment she held, having been working near relentlessly on it all for better or for worse. There were so few things that she could consider pleasant in rest... She couldn't rest, or she didn't want to...? Something along those lines that she would rather keep herself occupied with something other than her own idle thoughts at a given moment.[break][break]
"I know it took longer to get it all set up than I thought today, so I'm sorry its already getting late," Yuina offered first, glancing to one of the only pleasantries that she knew in any rest. She had missed Doug terribly... Having him back pushed away some of the darkness, as he always did.[break][break]
"As it turns out, it's taken more work to recalibrate my equipment than I thought, when I'm messing up all of my own readings," she huffed a bit. She never would have considered having to modify her equipment in such a way that it would have to account for a constant low level reading of distortion energy that came from... herself... It was rather annoying.[break]
"If everything works though, I should be able to start testing for any remaining residual energy signatures, going as far back as a year, maybe more. It would really help out with trying to understand some of the other things that have been going on," she went on, more science than Doug maybe had the bandwidth to undertake for himself, but talking about the work and the minutiae of it out loud sometimes did make things easier to understand.

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∞ Hoennian Ghost Tales: Ghost Story G -> Route 119[break]

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The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

Doug held no expertise and no knowledge were subjects of time and distortions were concerned.

His was the realm of medicine, anatomy, psychology, empathy, intuition.

Theoretical Physics (or... actual physics at this point, he supposed) were math heavy— and he and math were old enemies.

No, he was just here for Yuina.

He had made as much time for her as he could now, knowing that things would become truly busy once all anti-rocket, anti-invasion in general efforts resumed in earnest.

So he just smiled and nodded, the lovely himbo boyfriend merely standing nearby as she fiddled with the machine, his gaze on the moon, and his senses on their surroundings.

"S'fine, luv. Been fun enough, just seein' ya resist slappin' the machine's nuts n' bolts off."

It had been, though he wasn't there just to spend time with her. Just mostly.

It felt like every time he met Yuina, she was dealing with something new. Bigger and darker demons kept rearing in their ugly heads, poisoning the well of her own thoughts and sense of self.

Even now, as his eyes fluttered shut, he could sense it within her, a whirlwind of dark thoughts contained within a smell vessel at the pit of her stomach, so to speak.

The Drk Triad's brazen approach in Mossdeep as well, put him on edge— he was reluctant to leave her alone anywhere, but specially in a dark, empty location like a forest, were she could be attacked with no one the wiser.

"'Cause of yer new powers, ya?" He said, tipping his hat down as he hummed thoughtfully. "Think the machine would act up if Celebi came near it?"

But again, he mostly just wanted to spend time with her. Two weeks was two weeks too many.

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POSTED ON Oct 4, 2024 18:31:12 GMT

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She'd stopped in her walking for a moment as she worked on a series of settings and readings, taking careful note and paying close attention. Yuina tsked though as the settings reverted for a moment, drawing in the readings of her own energy signature.[break][break]
"It's not my equipment's fault, it is doing exactly what it was designed to do...," and so was she, in some way or fashion that she couldn't know. It was daunting, haunting even, to consider that no choice she'd ever made had ever been her own, that everything had been curated just for her and she had been so shrouded from the notion until now.[break]
She tried to shake away the thought as she glanced at Doug off to the side... surely her love for him was her own choice, and his love for her was beyond any intention of a path set before her, right?[break][break]
A light fog slowly began to roll along the grassy forest floor, drifting effortlessly around tree trunks and between bushes. The swamps and the marshes weren't too far off from where they were, and Yuina was a bit concerned now about how close she might have to get to get any kind of readings...[break][break]
Ever the optimist, Doug wondered about her 'new powers', light hearted and positive. She flexed her fingers, almost scratching at something that wasn't there, feeling those miniscule threads pricking at her fingertips. New power was a kind way to put it as opposed to calling it more fuel to the fire of the cosmic mistake that she had become.[break][break]
"Distortions have a very specific energy signature, because of what's happening before, during, and after they break out. Celebi has some similarities, but he isn't affecting any of the spatial properties around him when he might move through time," Yuina explained briefly, there were so many more specifics that went into it, as she had done some testing and readings in regards to Celebi's affinity to time as a construct versus that of distortions.[break][break]
"In a basic way to think about it, Celebi is natural the world, distortions are not. Celebi moves through time without disruption, but distortions tear through the very fabrics because they are unstable, and without true cause...," hmm, how familiar it all sounded.[break][break]
"At least, that's what I've theorized. None of this is exactly a sound science."

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The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

"Sounds like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff." Doug said as he approached the machine, staring at it with absolute confidence in his inability to comprehend its output. "But it was Celebi who gave ya yer new powers, no?"

"So what's this thing doin' for ya?" He asked, bending slightly at the waist as he eyed the console, tapping at his chin thoughtfully. "Gonna spit out a buncha numbers and graphs?"

What would any of it mean, he wondered? How did one look at numbers and graphs of space and time and make any sense of it?

He didn't like acting like a bad movie's take of the layman, asking 'what' and demanding her to 'speak hoennian' any time she said something vaguely eggheaded— but he really didn't have much of a choice when it came to matters like this.

This shit may have been reality now, but it had been basically science fiction less than 2 years prior.

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POSTED ON Oct 5, 2024 18:16:44 GMT

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Looking over another set of data that Yuina began to sort through, thoughts briefly fleeting over the differences between the energy signatures she had just spoken to, smiling a bit to herself at Doug's layman terminology for what they were dealing with, she stopped after a moment at his intuitive question.[break][break]
She... hadn't even asked herself that question, let alone heard it out loud to consider it. Was it Celebi...? How could it be though, given how different the two constructs were? And if not Celebi...[break][break]
"I-- I don't know? It just... happened, on Mossdeep," she thought about it for a moment, remembering, and that same energy crackled at her finger tips, that familiarity, her beginning.[break][break]
"Celebi was there, but it didn't feel like him? I know what his energy feels like, every loop in time while we were on that ship was him," she tried to think more on it, but she had no experience with something like this... But Doug did.[break][break]
"How would I know? What does it feel like, being connected to Lele," she asked in return. Everyone kept telling her that the drk triad hunted avatars and would be avatars even, well before their ascension might come to pass... Was she? And she just didn't know it...?[break][break]
It wouldn't be the first thing she wasn't aware of in regards to her own self...[break][break]
After a handful of moments, regarding her equipment, Yuina looked over a couple more data points as she switched between a couple of different screens.[break]
"Well... I'm hoping that I might be able to get some residual energy readings, knowing that there was a distortion here in the past. I'm not sure how long the energy might linger, or if it leaves any traces behind, but if they do, then I could find locations of distortions that had never even been reported, ones I never tracked," she answered, trying to ignore the significance of that particular distortion on its own. It was one of only a handful that she knew of that interacted with tera energy, having chosen a less treacherous location than area zero. And the distortion in the Ultra Sea could wait... She wasn't particularly keen on venturing into ultra space again for a bit. But this one... she was still hesitant all the same.[break][break]
"I haven't gotten any readings yet though... I was hoping we might not have to go too much deeper into the swamps."

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The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

He hummed thoughtfully, his hand on his chin as he considered the facts.

Not Celebi was there, but it didn't feel like him... usually, he applied Occam's razor to anything he knew little about, but he trusted Yuina more than his own gut.

"I don't think I've the vocabulary I'd need to explain." He said, hand sliding off his chin as he shrugged. "It's been there for longer than I've actually' been alive now."

It 23 or so years, what with Galar and what not.

"It's hard to remember what it was like for it to not be there."

There was a reason he seemed infinitely patient with his irresponsible matron.

His gaze returned to the machine she fiddled with. Residual energy...

"What sort of energy do distortions output?" He asked as he peered over her shoulder, leaning his chin atop her traps. "Not primal or infinity?"

So many types of power sources running around these days.

His lips stretched into a grin at the last comment, before he poked at her side.

"What. There something scary in the swamps?" He had heard a few interesting rumors from Lucia Aldrete...

The nonsense random kids on the internet would make up.

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POSTED ON Oct 7, 2024 3:42:05 GMT

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It seemed at best they might need to find another time to set aside to talk more about what it could mean to be connected to Celebi in such a way... She knew the small skips in time she could make were due to his influence, but distortions? She wondered so many things now that she'd started thinking about it. Was it temporary, and it would fade away? Why could she do it at all? Was there a point at which she could control it, and not feel like she needed to keep herself in check because she could feel those tiny threads pricking at her fingers every moment?[break][break]
"What a pair we make, hmm? You have more than double your life in memories, and I only have about a year's worth," Yuina mused softly. It wasn't much of a joking matter truly, but there was some humorous factors to the comparison, weren't there?[break][break]
Adjusting another set of information and settings on her screen, Yuina visibly relaxed that much more as she felt his figure encompass hers, his chin resting at the back of her shoulder, the slight warmth coming from his body to stave off the chilled air of the night setting in.[break][break]
"I don't know much about primal energy, but I have been studying infinity energy a bit closer the last couple of weeks. Distortions give off something different, dimensional energy, not unlike a rift to the distortion world I'd found once," Yuina recalled, twice actually, the time she'd actually stepped through to the other side, but that was well before she had started studying these phenomena so closely. And it was an accident.[break][break]
Yuina jumped just a bit at the poke in her side, his teasing coming out in earnest. She didn't need to see his face to know he had that insufferable grin, she could hear it, yet another of the impossibly long list of things she'd missed to much.[break]
"Being here that night of the missing persons case last year was pretty scary," Yuina returned, she was still so new to everything, new to life as it were, and then there were dismembered body parts, zombied megalopolans, toxic chains and ultra beasts... All in one harrowing night.[break][break]
"The distortion I'm trying to get residual readings on... Is the one that gave me what memories I have back. I guess you could say I have a love hate relationship with this place," Yuina muttered then.[break][break]
As if in the manifestation of being leery or paranoid about being where they were, in the distance, between tree trunks, shifting through the fog against the moonlight streaking through the tree branches... Was something moving?[break]
"Lets try to get a little closer, and if I don't get any readings, I have other locations I can try too. I... don't like being out here at night again," Yuina realized, and she hadn't, not since that night, and for good reason.

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The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

"The juxtaposition ain't lost on me." He said, stuffing his hands in his pockets. "Think I'm getting a trip to the future soon?"

His gaze moved slowly over the surrounding scenery.

"Primal and Z-move energy were both related to rifts and wormholes, I believe." He said, stepping closer to peer over her shoulder once more.

He didn't know enough about either of the aforementioned terms to make any sense out of the machine's readings— if it was even reading anything at that point.

More stuff for her to busy herself with.

He wrapped an arm around her shoulders, his careless words dredging up a harrowing subject from nearly a year past.

"Sorry." He mutters, squeezing her shoulder gently while leaning his head onto hers. "I shouldn't be makin' jokes 'ere."

Rolling and squaring his shoulders, he stepped forward before turning back and holding a hand to her.

"I'll lead the way; ya can keep yer eyes on the reader." He said, scratching at his cheek for a moment. "If you, uh... just wanna turn back at any point, let me know. We don't gotta be impatient; we can afford to be leisurely, I think."

He made a show of looking around, nose twitching about.

"Think I've heard a few rumours 'bout the place recently. Mostly from the kids." He mused, before rolling his eyes. "Well. Just a buncha ghost tales hoo-ha, really."

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POSTED ON Oct 11, 2024 1:51:22 GMT

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"The future? Just when I've gotten you back? You can't go anywhere so soon again," she mused softly, but only just. She wasn't sure her heart could take much more time apart for a long while. Even as tumultuous as the present was, with him in it, she didn't quite want to think about the future too much. Not when her path might be running its course...[break][break]
Wrapped in one arm as he pulled her in closer, Yuina took that moment to let some tension from her shoulders, drawing in an even, steady breath. Tucked into his frame, it was so easy to let go of some of the weight she continued to carry, push away some of the darkness that gnawed at her constantly.[break]
"It's alright, if it wasn't that one, it might have been another, I was always drawn to them before being here," Yuina accepted, glancing up to him as he stood up straighter and stepped ahead. He was so considerate of her work, and what she was trying to do while they were there, she smiled a bit as she reached out to take his hand.[break][break]
"What I ever did to deserve you, I'll never know," Yuina thanked, for a truly simple gesture, but one that spoke volumes to her.[break]
"We need to go east from here a bit, the underground caves do go on for quite a ways," she offered, glancing at the map on her devices before they began to move forward through the grasses, the chill of the autumn, night air coming through the tree trunks, moonlight filtering down from above. Yuina worked on a couple of settings and calibrations as they walked, and Doug spoke about the kids, and some ghost stories or some such.[break][break]
"Ghosts huh? Ghost Pokémon or something else," she wondered, if he'd heard it from the kids, there truly was no telling, it could have been a Trevenant stalking through the trees or a Banett hiding in a shadow. She might not have put too much stock into the thought of 'something else' though had she not visited The Border recently, and communed with the dead herself...[break][break]
'Yuina'[break][break]
Yuina glanced up, looking to Doug expectantly as if he'd said her name, but he was still walking forward, eyes set forward, he hadn't turned back to look at her at all... She nearly shrugged it off, when in the corner of her eye, passing a wide tree trunk, she thought she saw something moving just behind it, but then nothing came out from the other side... She shook her head, like paranoia was setting in for nothing...[break][break]
'Yuina'[break][break]
Closer, louder, Yuina looked up.[break]
"Did you see that? Is there something in the trees," Yuina questioned, it could be the fog, or a Pokémon, or so many other things, but as they passed by a large tree trunk, Yuina stopped entirely, unmoving. Her device fell from her hand, clattering to the ground, eyes fixated on a ghostly figure that stood before them. A man, wearing a uniform of sorts, foreign characters embroidered into the coat, a patch displayed on the sleeve.[break][break]
"No...," her voice was only a whisper as she regarded the apparition. She knew him... And then she realized... She knew what happened to him.[break]
"Hiraki... The Megalopolans, they...," she couldn't finish the sentence, she couldn't bear it, but she didn't have to, since it had already happened. He had died at their hands in the caves beneath them...

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POSTED ON Oct 13, 2024 0:22:40 GMT

The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

"Ya better hold onto me tight, then." He said, grinning cheekily whilst squeezing her against his side.

If the world tried Back to the future'ing him, he'd drag her along for the ride.

But man, she sure knew how to butter up a guy.

"Nothing too terrible, I reckon'." He snickered, pecking her head as he lead them into the deep, dark and creepy forest ahead, puffing up his chest slightly as he brushed off his... misgivings.

At the mention of the underground, he raised his flood flashlight, the thing turning on like a flashbang and illuminating the path forward.

"Alright. Onwards eastwards." He said, holding the floodlight in reverse grip over his head as he began his advance. "Ghost-types, yeah. Probably. These really ain't their sorts of habitats, though."

Probably what gotten those stories going in the first place.

"I'm willin' to bet it's some invasive species tryin' to find its place in Hoenn. Lots o'those." He said, before freezing as Yuina's gaze suddenly snapped upwards. "Hn?"

The floodlight snapped up towards the tree canopy above, blinding lights drowning the leaves in inky shadows. Nothing.

"Can't see anything. Should I—?" He felt the presence before he saw it.

A large mass of misery had suddenly popped into his senses as if from the ether, drawing his attention to it like a magnet.

A man stood before them— and for a moment, Doug held his arm before Yuina, his heart beginning to beat faster in his chest. The man had appeared from seemingly nowhere. A triad—?

"Who?" He said, his gaze snapping back over his shoulder and to Yuina, his surprise evident for a moment before it was pushed away by concern. "Yuina?"

He glanced back at the man for a moment, before turning his attention fully to Yuina.

"You okay?" He whispered softly. "Should I get rid of this guy?"

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The worst memory that she knew of this place, the one portion of it that Yuina had never quite been able to come to terms with, was knowing what happened to the group of Hisuians that the Megalopolans wrote about. They, like her, were just in a wrong place at a wrong time, but how could they have been able to fight and defend themselves against a threat so devastating, and so unknowable to them?[break]
She wondered, frequently, if she knew them, if they would have been familiar to her, if they would have remembered who she was and might have been able to give her any answers to what might have happened... But knew that she would never be able to truly glean anything... Until now.[break][break]
Everything was quiet, save for a breeze that brushed through the empty tree branches. Fog rolled across the ghostly figure that stood before them, moonlight shifted through its translucent form, and were Doug took the defensive, tucking Yuina behind his figure, she stopped him with a hand clutching his arm.[break][break]
"No-- wait, I know him," Yuina pleaded quietly. Was it a good idea? Likely not. Was it a desperate one? Absolutely.[break][break]
"Hiraki," she spoke up with a tremble in her voice, regarding the apparition. Its form shifted, turning more towards them, responding, listening...[break]
'Yuina... you were gone ...' he spoke in recognition, though the voice carried like whispers, echoes bouncing along the tree trunks, without true substance. Yuina's hand clutched Doug's arm that much tighter, eyes stinging.[break][break]
"I-- I didn't, I couldn't...," but she couldn't find any words, she still didn't know how or why she left that far away place at all. What could she say?[break]
'...We searched... we were killed....,' the apparition continued, and Yuina's blood ran cold.[break][break]
"No... you were looking...," she didn't want to finish the sentence, she didn't want to consider it, but the ghost's face snapped up to attention, staring at them both now, because he knew.[break][break]
'For you... you killed us,' the voice hissed.[break][break]
From the ground below, a sharp chill circled around their feet and ankles, and Yuina shivered against the cold, until she felt it gripping her leg. Ghostly white hands started to lift through the soil, through the grass, the others that too had been lost at the hands of the Megalopolans, spirits that were trapped and misplaced with no where to go. One hand clutched Yuina's ankle, and with a shriek she clutched Doug's arm with both hands, intent to run as full formed figures began to rise from the ground.

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∞ Hoennian Ghost Tales: Ghost Story G -> Route 119[break]

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The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

Things escalated quickly.

The border had been open for quite a while— perhaps they shouldn't have been surprised the dead now roamed the earth. What else was new in Hoenn?

"I'm sorry for what befell you." He said as he pulled Yuina away from the clutching hand, stomping unto it. "But that ain't got nothin' to do with her."

The dead began to rise from the earth, and with them, came a roaring flood of negative emotions that threatened to overwhelm the senses. His jaw clamped as he tried to push it away, feeling it linger around him like stains.

He moved to stand further ahead of Yuina— he certainly did not look like he was running, however.

"If ya think I'm too afraid to punch a zombie, ya got another thing comin', buckos."

He was a Hoenn veteran. The walking dead might be somewhat new, but they did not phase him enough to to not kick their asses.

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-show me ur hands

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Trudging up from the ground, multiple apparitions appeared from the soil and grass below, climbing from the depths of the caves that they had perished in. Their reason for being on their search, the very purpose they had gone out to serve was there in front of them now, their lost kin. And they were being drawn to it. To her.[break][break]
All faces that Yuina remembered, recognized, names coming to her, remembering her time in the village. Egawa, Katou, Morita, and even the face of one who had once cared for a Blood Moon Ursaluna, one that now belong with howard slayte. They were surrounded by those that had perished at the hands of the Megalopolans here, misplaced by time, with no way to return, no way to be laid to rest... But the spirits were certain that their time to rest had now come to them...[break][break]
'We were searching for you!'[break]
'You left us, you disappeared!'[break]
'Our kin! You need to come back with us!'[break][break]
It was all a cacophony of grievances, what they had set out to do and had failed to accomplish, what they remained stuck and trapped over. Where Yuina had turned to run, bidding Doug with her, he moved to stay, to stand, to protect her... They were being encroached upon.[break][break]
'Take us home!'[break][break]
Yuina's panic mounted, her back to Doug's as they stood within an enclosing circle of the spirits that were fixated on her and what had happened to them... Fixated that she was their salvation, their path to move on, to leave this life behind and finally be at peace...[break][break]
'Take us home, take us home, take us home,'[break]
The cacophony continued, Yuina's fingers flexed, those threads pricking at her fingertips as she looked out with stricken eyes.[break][break]
"I can't! Please! I didn't mean for this to happen," Yuina pleaded, surrounded by faces of a long ago place, somewhere she had never been able to go back to, but she longed for it, pined for it in some of her darkest moments...[break]
Doug was ready to take the offensive, the ghostly apparitions closing in still. Could they fight ghosts? What would happen if they did? What would happen if they couldn't?[break][break]
'Takeushometakeushometakeushometakeushome'[break][break]
"STOP!"[break][break]
That was all she wanted, she just wanted it to stop, all of it, everything to stop. The threads at her fingertips broke and snapped, giving in to the energy she held. The very fragile nature of that inbetween space, a distortion, broke out from around her, encompassing both herself and Doug, freezing time within her boundary and bringing everything to a standstill, save for Doug, who she wanted to protect most of all.

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POSTED ON Oct 19, 2024 14:58:45 GMT

The past in the present

ft. Yuina Higashi

Take us home.

He took in a deep breath, spine curdling as skin crawled.

It clung to him and settled in the pit of his stomach, an almost familiar dread that refused to part with him even as he tried to push it away.

Fear. Desperation. Homesickness.

He was a young refugee once again, watching his homeland disappear over the horizon.

His teeth came crashing down on the inside of his cheek.

"Calm." He muttered, tasting copper on his tongue. "Down..."

He didn't know what Yuina was seeing anymore— no matter how he squinted, they were a wreathing mass of outpouring dread.

It didn't matter— he needed to...

The world rippled with Yuina's cry. No— it cracked. It stopped.

Surrounded by overflowing dread and misery, both external and her own, Yuina had somehow made the universe bend to her will— however desperate that will.

His eyes drifted around them. Within that small distortion, that small gap in time, the ghosts' emotions were no longer present, no longer relevant.

"What... the—" He muttered, slowly looking around himself, his gaze finally falling unto Yuina.

The wreathing mass of dread in her place, at any rate.

"... Yuina." He muttered, quickly taking a step towards her and reaching out.

The overflowing emotions slid against him like chilled water, jolting his awareness, his hand hesitating halfway.

He had done his best to avoid emotions like these since he had made his return. He wasn't sure of how he was supposed to interface with them— the memories of Petalburg City were cut off from him, ending shortly after his encounter with dorian westcliff.

What little he could remember, however, and what some reports spoke of made him... apprehensive.

But that didn't matter where Yuina was concerned.

His hand clasped her shoulder firmly, the frigid chill of her raw emotions sinking deep into his arm as he stepped closer to hug her, goosebumps spreading all over his skin as the icy sensations dug into him.

"We're still here."

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-dread real bad
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