12th Blood

[makemebreakfast]

[Oh look, the phone just happens to be off the hook when Arcueid wakes up in the morning. After a long moment of silence everyone will be treated to Arcueid screaming one word.]

SPIDERS! [A long pause, accentuated only by the sound of her own heavy breathing.]

That Milk man. I guess we weren't trapped after all.

[The sound of her crawling out

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[normal_anomaly]

"Back?"

[makemebreakfast]

I was in Westport for a while.

[Ask a simple question, get a simple answer xD]

[normal_anomaly]

WHAT?! How did you get back?!

...Wait. That was a dumb question.

[makemebreakfast]

I died. That Milkman gave me milk full of spiders...then I woke up here.

1/2

[normal_anomaly]

[Kyon gives an involuntary shudder.]

Ugh. That's gotta be one of the worst ways to--

2/2

[normal_anomaly]

...Wait. WAIT!

The MILKMAN was over there?!

[makemebreakfast]

There was a Milkman, yea.

He had really, really white teeth. Abnormally white.

Why, do you know him?

[normal_anomaly]

Wait. She can't be serious, can she?

You mean no one's told you about all the stuff the milkman has done in Mayfield?

[makemebreakfast]

I don't think so.

If they did I don't remember.

[normal_anomaly]

I can't tell if she's been living under a rock or someone has been intentionally keeping her in the dark.

It started a year ago. We were given a name and a photo of another person in town and told to kill them. Those that didn't got bad milk delivered to their houses. It was filled with spiders, scorpions, poison, LSD...stuff like that.

Then mid-summer, all the drones disappeared except the milkman, and suddenly it became Christmas. There were gifts, but we couldn't get them open until they opened by themselves. And inside were...body parts of the drones.

Then there was Election Day. The milkman won the mayoral election, lit Town Hall on fire, then plunged the town into a huge storm. Then, when a recount election was held, he did everything he could to keep people from voting and punish people who voted for the old mayor.

[makemebreakfast]

...sure sounds like him.

Even if I had known that...I doubt I could have kept myself from drinking that milk. I was dying of thirst and hunger.

It was...really bad over there...[It kind of sounds like Arcueid's just a bit shaken talking about it. Only slightly.]

[normal_anomaly]

...

If you don't want to talk about it...

[makemebreakfast]

N-no, it's fine!

I figure people want to know what was going on over there. Unfortunately I didn't play much of a part in everything going on...I had my own things to find.

I know other people were looking for things...I guess clues? I talked to one man who was looking for one of them in the church...but that's really all I knew.

Something about "the police man on the steeple" or something.

[normal_anomaly]

Clues, huh?

I'd better let Nagato know about this.

[makemebreakfast]

Yea, but like I said I didn't really find much out about that stuff.

[normal_anomaly]

Still good to know for when everybody else gets back, if for nothing else.