002 The Disappearing Denizen Dilemma

[watsowned]

A. [ Phone ]

On a scale of one to ten, one being abnormal for this place, and ten being hinky/kooky/downright freaky with their respective capital letters, how would you rate recent happenings here in crazy town?

And by happenings, I'm referring to the mass disappearance and replacement of a lot of people, in case you missed the unofficial memo.

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[kinships]

[And Wendy just happens to flag down this ten year old boy on the way to the library, brow furrowing a moment as he tried to remember where he knew that name.]

--Miss Watson! I think we spoke on the phone when you got here? I'm Cain.

[watsowned]

[And Wendy does the same thing.]

-- That we did, Cain. That we did. It's nice to give a face to your name.

Thanks again for answering a newbies call.

[kinships]

It was my pleasure, really. If we can't help each other here, then what chance do we have of getting through to the other side?

[Oh, listen to him rambling when she had stopped him for a reason.]

I'm sorry, what was this survey?

[watsowned]

True that.

[Oh, right.]

-- right. It's about the extreme amounts of weirdness that have been happening lately. I'm doing a little investigating. Mind if I ask you a few questions?

[kinships]

Oh. No, go ahead, I'll do my best to answer.

[watsowned]

Great! Question one: have you noticed anything especially weird lately?

[kinships]

You mean aside from the power outages, the people vanishing and the odd replacements?

[watsowned]

All of the above, with a side of doomsday nightmares.

Experience any of it firsthand?

[kinships]

There's one of the replacements in my house, she was my 'sister' before this. Miss Rachel Alucard, it's... disconcerting to see her like this.

[watsowned]

I'm so sorry.

. . .Do you mind if I ask another question about her?

[kinships]

No, not at all.

[He seems very calm, but that's probably because he wasn't that close to her.]

[watsowned]

About her copy, can you pinpoint exactly why she seems off? Or is there just a general feeling of...wrongness?

[Duly noted.]

[kinships]

I'm not sure, it really is just a general feeling. She just feels... off, jarring.

[watsowned]

But you can still remember her clearly, correct? Or are some of the details fuzzy?

[kinships]

Remember her clearly?

[That seemed like an odd question, taking him by surprise. He was about to answer that of course he remembered her clearly when...]

...I don't remember how we met.

[watsowned]

And that's the kicker.

Everyone's forgetting them. Slowly, one bit at a time, but it's happening.