Night 53: Main Hallway, 1-East

[mugenreppa]

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"And anyway, was that a map or what?" She hadn't gotten a good look, but if Scarecrow had consulted it, it was either a map or instructions. Mele didn't know which was more likely.

It was a good idea to exchange notes once in a while, probably. Maybe she'd do that in the day tomorrow; she'd been focusing so much on what everyone

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[vsyourface]

"No."

The answer was immediate, perhaps a little too much so. Scott seemed to realize this after a moment, then clarified with: "Not... that I know of, anyway? I think a friend of mine might have. Something about a shadow with tree branches growing out of it?"

Half of Scott was flat-out lying right now. The NegaScott thing was not something he wanted to talk about right now, least of all with a complete stranger, cool though she was. Whether Senna believed him or got the hint that this wasn't something she ought to ask him about, everything would be fine so long as he got to keep his mouth shut.

The other half of him, though, was genuinely having a hard time pulling details of the encounter to the forefront of his mind. That was because, already, his subconscious was pulling overtime on shoveling more gray matter on top of that memory, like dirt over a secret shoebox in the backyard. He could recall that there was an incident, that NegaScott had been there, and that Other Matt had been affected by something too. However, words were starting to get fuzzy for him, and the exact sequence of events wasn't quite linear anymore. He saw more a string of random images and sounds now than a clear memory. It would have been kind of amazing to an outside observer, if it wasn't also kind of sad/distressing. Or if, you know, an outside observer could see into Scott's mind in the first place.

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