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[rebornmother]

[ Eileen stands in the middle of the lawn, wrapped in a bathrobe and looking very distressed. From the way her eyes sweep up and down the block, taking in the eerily similar houses, one can guess that she's a new resident to Mayfield

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[lookingformykid]

[Walking by with a bag of groceries

[rebornmother]

[ Waves him down. ]

Excuse me!

[lookingformykid]

[Looks over at her and then walks over]

Hello. Can I help you?

[rebornmother]

[ Smiles weakly. ]

I sure hope so. Where am I?

[lookingformykid]

[Ah, another new person]

Mayfield I'm sorry to say.

[He shifts his groceries and holds out a hand to her to shake.]

My name's Harry Mason.

[rebornmother]

[ Mayfield, huh? It was fitting. Eileen had never seen such a picture perfect suburban neighborhood before. ]

I'm Eileen Galvin. Nice to meet you.

[ A pause. ]

What do you mean by you're "sorry to say?"

[lookingformykid]

This place isn't exactly as peaceful as it looks.

We've all been brought here from different ...well this is going to strange, but different worlds.

And those smiling people you see around here. That think everythings normal? We call them drones.

[rebornmother]

It doesn't sound all that strange...

[ Peering over her shoulder confirms that the child in the second story window is still burning a hole in her back. ]

Drones, huh? Makes sense.

[lookingformykid]

[He shruggs]
Really. It sounded odd to me.

Yeah. They don't realize what's going on here. If we act out of line too much they can make us act like them as well.

And then the town has....a tendency to mess with our heads. This month it trapped a group of people in a new town and left them there without any supplies and with people trying to kill them.

[rebornmother]

[ In spite of how vividly she can smell freshly cut grass and feel the sunshine warming her face, Eileen is still praying that this is all a dream. The last thing she wants is to be trapped again.

Being bombarded with all this information, she can only manage a single word in response. ]

Terrible...

[lookingformykid]

[He nods]

Yeah.

It takes a while to sink in.

[rebornmother]

...Have you heard of a man named Walter Sullivan?

[ It's a stretch, but she has to be sure. ]

[lookingformykid]

[He shakes his head]

Sorry. Do you know a town called Silent Hill?

[rebornmother]

[ That came as more of a shock than if Harry told her Walter lived just next door. ]

I grew up near there.

[lookingformykid]

[And now it's Harry's turn to look shocked]

You...you know about Silent Hill?

[rebornmother]

A little. My parents took me to the amusement park every summer when I was a girl.