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[stonyfaced]

[There are no smudges, pauses, or pentaps here. Instead, Stoneface's writing is unusually, precisely neat. Chronologically, this entry takes place the morning after he made a visit to Bell to tell him the news personally.] As of midnight last night, the Wilderness changed from the place of games to a city. The city is not empty. Its

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[feathered_earth]

Youth is

[heretic_hamlet]

Has he... vanished, or is he merely dead?

[After about ten seconds, he realizes how silly that must sound and crosses it out.]

[unevoked]

[This will be read and re-read a few times.]

How the hell are there [The writing stops there- of course people don't know, or else they would have said. A line is drawn through that.]

Alright. Thanks.

[bloody_pens]

[live_ringer]

Christ.

[The statement is crossed out almost as quickly as it's written. He's already planning to stop by the ninja house to see how Bell is holding up, if he's even stuck around there at all.]

Feeling ill... that's what happened to Youth, then?

[This is a new one. He's never heard of someone getting sick before they disappear.]

[stonyfaced]

That's correct. He also began flickering before it happened, but by that point, it may be too late.

[live_ringer]

I see. Illness leading to flickering... suppose it's stating the obvious to say this place works in damned strange and frustrating ways.

[He wants to ask if Stoneface knows just how much Youth learned before it got to the point of no return. What the timeline was. But... it's too soon. Not to mention, it would also give away the fact that he's considering investigating the place later, despite (or maybe because of) the warnings.]