Hazel Rose Ackerman's Story

Setting

65 Fahrenheit | 18.3 Celsius
It's a rainy day in Wisconsin. Those who are found outside are likely to be soaking wet. On the calender it's marked as September 25th. All watches seemed to have stopped at the time of the storm, marking 1:58 PM. Though time keeps ticking, the clocks aren't.

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The repetitive green tile pattern of the hallways weren't comfortable on the eyes, nor the back. Her head was spinning, thoughts empty of any personal agendas. Quinn's eyes opened in the dark hallway of the school. Dark blue lockers to each far side of her - and a blank CD with the words "Modest Mouse" written on it. It was a strange feeling, being...blank. No memories of loved ones, no recollection of what had happened, just existence. Her stiff body sat up against the lockers before she willed her voice to call out.
"Hello?" she yelled, hoping that someone would hear her. In the darkness she sat, looking blankly at the CD, then looking to the ends of the halls for any signs of movement. While all personal memories may be gone, she still remembered everything else. How to brush her teeth and how to play a crappy game of chess were all things still there. As much as she searched her own brain, nothing appeared.
The next emotion to arise was panic. Where was she? Who was she? Those were questions that she had no answers for. Based on common knowledge she quickly deducted she was in some kind of school, a blind deaf monkey would know that. Looking down at her clothes, she hoped for some kind of epiphany of who she was. Purple studded shorts, teal vans, a Nirvana shirt, and various rings on her fingers did nothing to help her jog her memory. Searching her pockets she found a phone, which she assumed was hers. She didn't feel like a thief of any sort, and if she was - she was a well dressed one. The grunge Ariel phone case didn't help her at all either, and clicking the home button, she learned it was dead. Picking herself up off the ground she wobbled slightly.
Either I'm a well dressed thief, or hungover she thought, leaning against the locker for support. She grabbed the CD off the floor and held it in her hands.
CD? I don't even have a CD player on me. Am I an idiot? Her inner dialogue stopped when she saw two doors opposite to one another a few feet away from her. One door had a female sign on it, another a male. Locker room? Why would she be down by a locker room. She didn't feel toned and muscular like some sort of athlete.
"Is anyone around?" she yelled once again, hopefully not in vain before she slowly took steps towards the doors. Her dizzy body decided to give out on the girl before she reached the door, and she stumbled to the ground.
"God I hope I don't have any walking impairment" she mumbled before getting back to her feet, and leaning against those blue lockers once more.

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Outfit

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Doc halted suddenly, his face rammed against another persons, he took two giant steps back, his heart beating rapidly. A girl was standing in front of him, smoking.
"Who are you..." He muttered uncertainly, stepping away a little. Before he could run away from the awful stench of cigarettes, the girl grabbed his hand and tugged him out the door, "What's your name?" She demanded, maybe not realising her harsh tone.
Doc thought carefully... he didn't know his name, in fact, it had been irritating him the most out of all of this.
In a flash he said, "Doc. Because I woke up in the nurses office," He sighed heavily, "I don't know my real name."
Doc smiled weakly, "What's your name..." He assumed she had come up with some crazy nickname as well.

The girl was puffing thick, grey air into his face, it was annoying him immensely. He put his hand over his nose.
She had short, dark reddish hair and her skin was extremely pale, She was rather thin with excellent skin. Doc wouldn't say she was pretty exactly, but she wasn't bad-looking either, somewhere in the middle. He scratched his head, glancing up and down the dead silent hallway, willing for someone to chuck a bucket of water on the girls cigarette.

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"That's an interesting name," he coughed slightly, "Very...you..." He gestured awkwardly to her cigarette, eyes watering. He thought for a moment. This girl could be an alien... she could be trying to steal my memory, But my memory has gone already..I'm blank. He rubbed his cheek and smirked slightly. The smirk -a tiny smirk at that- almost seemed directed at him, as if he was laughing at himself. They were so vulnerable, and had no memory. And here they were, talking in the middle of a deserted hallway, as time ticked by. (The time, however, didn't tick on the large clock hung precariously at the end of the hallway. It was apparently 1:58, and had been for a while.)

'Lighter' sat down against the wall, smoking and staring in concentration at her lighter,
"So are you blank as well?" She asked."Yes," He replied almost immediately, "Have you got any idea what happened?"
He was eager to find out as much as possible. Maybe there were others in the school? Maybe they were the only two? He groaned, his brain hurting.

"I think we're in a school. As for who I am, I'm frightened to say I can't answer that..." Oliver nodded slowly. So he wasn't the only one going crazy. Thank god for that. He let his eyes trail slowly to where the blue-eyed boy was pointing, more to avoid the eye-contact that the teen was trying to initiate than Oliver actually wanting to see, but he couldn't deny that he was curious. "I actually just woke up, in there and I couldn't remember anything. Maybe we took some really bad acid or something." Oliver let out a breath of hesitant laughter, finding the stranger's laugh a touch funnier than the actual joke. However, he hesitated to take a step back as the other boy approached. The kid didn't seem bad to Oliver, he was just a bit too close for comfort.

Pushing up the sleeves of his hoodie up around around his elbows, feeling awkward suddenly, Oliver answered the stranger's last question sounding resigned, "I... No, I can't remember." He let out a sigh, rubbed at his tattoo, looking toward the floor as he was trying to think. He spoke slowly, like he was planning every word in advance, "I guess... We should think of something... Something to call ourselves, I mean--" Oliver was cut off abruptly as he got knocked off balance by a girl running directly into his side.

Oliver, regaining his composer, had the dignity to be embarrassed, and the reflex to apologize, "Sorry..." He muttered, despite the fact that she had been the one to smack into him, before flinching back as she started barked at them, "Who are you? Names?" Oliver shied away instinctively, taking refuge a few steps behind the smaller boy, slouching down as if he could actually be hidden despite the height difference.

"We... We were just saying that... That we don't remember..." Oliver fumbled his words, no longer being able to quell the slight tremor in his voice. He could deal with one stranger, if only barely, but two was enough to make his hands start to shake. Not to mention, this girl was giving off an intense no-nonsense, kick-your-teeth-in kind of vibe.

"I...No, I can't remember." The stranger heaved a sigh and rubbed his now visible tree tatto. Finn stared at it in amazement, it was pretty massive and well drawn. He had always thought tattoos were cool, but he didn't have the guts nor did he think he could pull of the look of a tattoo to get one.

"I guess... We should think of something... Something to call ourselves, I mean--" The wet teen spoke carefully at first, dragging his sentences out as if he was trying to look for the right things to say, that was until his sentence was cut short.

A girl now stood in front of them, as Tree-tattoo, as Finn was now calling his wet acquaintance until further notice, shied away from the girl. Tree-tattoo uttered a sorry, apologizing even though she had run into him. The girl stood looking at them with a fierce look in her eyes. " Who are you? Names?" She spoke firmly and with power. Finn felt the need to back up, feeling more than intimidated. Despite her being shorter than both him and Tree-tattoo, he felt like he wouldn't be able to win in a fight against her either.

The girls hair was cut short, Finn couldn't quite place his finger on the color of her hair, but it looked between the orange and brown family, sort of tawny. Hazel eyes met theirs.

"We... We were just saying that... That we don't remember..." Tree-tatto stuttered from behind Finn. Finn glanced over his shoulder at him sensing his overwhelming nervousness. Clutching his book tighter Finn made up his mind. Quickly he tried to direct the girls attention away from Tree-tattoo in attempt to ease his nerves. Hey the guy had laughed at one of his jokes it was the least he could do, since it felt like a rarity for someone to do that.

"Yeah it's weird, but we can't seem to remember any personal information." He gave the girl a shrug and placed a hand on his forehead. "What about you, do you know what your name is? Do you know what's going on?" He asked. Half of him hoping the girl knew what was happening and the other hoping she didnt so he wouldn't seem like an idiot.

A deep scowl set in on the Tawney-Haired Girl's slight features, looking both annoyed and resigned at the answer Oliver had given for her questions. She looked as though she expected the fact that they knew nothing, but that they just confirmed it brought annoyance. "Yeah it's weird, but we can't seem to remember any personal information." The Blue-Eyed Boy stepped up, talking lead in the conversation where it had started to flat line. Oliver was thankful for that, since now the Tawney-Haired Girl's intense gaze was draw away from the taller male, "What about you, do you know what your name is? Do you know what's going on?"

The girl gave a small huff of spiteful laughter, jamming her hands into her pockets as she spoke with a chipped tone, "Nope, can't recall and not a clue. But," Out of her pocket, she produced what looked like a small block of metal. Oliver squinted slightly, trying to make out what it was, but his efforts were for naught as she easily presented it for both boys to see, flicking it open and letting the flame burn. "'Lighter' will do just fine for a name. And this is--" She glanced over her shoulder, looking back into the empty hall like she expected someone to be standing there. Lighter grumbled something inaudible under her breath, but it sounded like nothing more than an awful lot of nasty words.

'Lighter'? Oliver was baffled. He guessed he had to give the girl some credit, though, because neither Oliver nor the Blue-Eyed Boy had thought of calling themselves by inanimate objects yet. They would still be stuck in an endless loop of unanswerable questions if Lighter here hadn't walked in. The girl scared him, she looked like, even though she was much smaller, she could take on both of the boys in a fight without breaking a sweat, but Oliver had to give credit where credit was due. Taking some initiative, even though he was a shaky, stuttering mess, Oliver stepped out slightly from his refuge behind the shorter boy.

Oliver's gaze was positioned just above Lighter's left shoulder, trying to fake the appearance of eye contact, if only slightly, "Then... You can call me... Um..." His voice started to lower in volume at an alarming rate, to the point where he was barely talking above a whisper. Eyes flicked down to his arm, he finished his statement sounding more like he was asking than telling, "Call me... Trees?"

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The tawny haired girl in front of Finn gave a mean laugh, stuffing her hands into her pockets.

"Nope, can't recall and not a clue. But," Her voice lingered in the air as she presented a small gray box to them, her eyes glowing with pride as she flipped it open. A flame jumped out, licking at the air around it. 'Lighter' will do just fine for a name. And this is--" Lighter looked over her shoulder as if searching for a person. She muttered something under her breath.

Finn cautiously took a step back at the sudden appearance of fire. Lighter fit her, he thought watching her through cautious eyes. It was definitely genius for her to come up with something to call herself for the time being. He would have chosen fire as her name, thinking it fit her wild personality better. Well as far as he could tell. He had only known the girl for a couple of seconds.

"Then....You can call me....Um...." A soft voice came from Finn's side, causing him to turn to his tall acquaintance. "Call me....Trees?" Tree-tattoo or rather Trees finished.

"Trees hmmm...okay. What about you bookworm? Why are you carrying around a book anyway, I'm not quite sure now would be a good time to return your library book." Lighter laughed shoving her lighter back into her pocket.

Finn jumped at that, clutching his book tighter as his blue eyes met her hazel ones. "I...I...I don't now he stuttered." The demand in her voice shaking him up a bit.

"Well think of one." She barked. "It can't be that hard, I did it, he did it. Just pick something." She motioned to Trees as she spoke. Crossing her arms over her chest after she finished.

Finn bit the inside of his cheek. What could he call himself? He definitely didn't want bookworm, it sounded nerdy and he definitely wasn't, or at least he assumed he wasn't nerdy.

Glancing down at the book in his hands he read the title of the book.

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This was the book he had woken up with. Before all of this he was reading it. It was important to him.

Finn.

That would be his name. It was apart of something special to him and sounded like a normal name.

Finn grinned. "Finn, I want to be called Finn."

"Great job." Lighter said sarcastically, giving a single clap. "Now that we are all properly introduce, is it just me or are you hungry? I'm sure there's a cafeteria or something in this lousy school." With that she took off down the hall not bothering to look back.

Finn ran a hand through his hair, suddenly feeling the effects of hunger as his stomach growled. He glanced over at Trees, unsure if he should follow this tough girl. He looked back at her, watching as she began to get farther and farther away from them. Finn let out a sigh, shrugging at Trees before jogging to catch up with her.

She seemed to have some idea of what she was doing, I mean she had helped them figure out names.

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After listening to introductions and the ideas of others, Mouse nodded. The dimness of the school was unsettling, and it made her want to leave the place. Despite her want to flee - people may be left in the building, and she had no recollection of the outside world at the moment. The other guy that had joined the group was being terribly quiet, she found it a bit unsettling. Everyone she had met were as confused as she was - she liked that. It sounded terrible in her head that she was happy that other people were feeling the same amount of confusion as she - but it was what was binding the people together.
"Sounds like a good plan Lemony Lemon" she said to the blonde with a small grin before kicking an empty water bottle on the cafeteria floor with her aqua colored vans.

She began walking back towards the cafeteria doors they once entered. As glad as she was to find people, she couldn't help but feel rather...crowded. Something about being alone seemed very appealing. It was hard not knowing anything about yourself - why certain behaviors were evident, why you did certain things. Those girls seemed to have the same issue. She could tell Captain was a Casanova - it was blatantly obvious. In fact - that is what she made his nickname.

Quinn walked through the locker filled halls with quiet steps. Her eyes averted to the ceilings of the school. Some lights flickered dimly. It was eerie. The place was in obvious need of a good electrician.
"Do any of you know what time it is?" she called behind her to whoever may be listening. The clocks were still stuck at the same damn time.

Walking she fell to the ground suddenly when her body collided with a different one. Awkwardly she fell on top of whoever the person was with a small squeek.
"Oh shi-I'm sorry" she quickly apologized, getting herself off of the poor boy. The boy had a book in his hand and had brown hair with blue eyes.
"I found more people" she called out to the others she had met earlier. Brushing herself off she offered a hand to the guy she tumbled over.
"The floors, terribly slippery" she joked lamely, flashing a small smile. A girl to the side seemed to snort.
"Or you're just a giant fool, tripping over themselves" she mumbled. Mouse could smell the faint scent of smoke on her. She wrinkled her nose slightly in disgust. There was another guy nearby as well. Doing a mental body count there were 4 guys and 4 girls. Coincidentally even.

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Outfit

Finn, as the Blue-Eyed Boy had newly dubbed himself, turned to look at Oliver as Lighter stomped away in search of food. The taller boy could see it in Finn's eyes that he was making a decision, and, with a resigned shrug, he seemed to have came to his conclusion. Finn hurried away after Lighter, leaving Oliver standing be himself in is sopping wet clothes and the light of the flickering florescents. Then, in thoughts churned out of sheer panic, Oliver came to a conclusion of his own. That conclusion being, despite the fact that the pair of odd strangers frightened him dearly, he really didn't want to be alone right now. Alone meant solitary confusion and unanswerable questions.

Oliver didn't have to run to catch up to the fleeting figures, a few long-legged strides at a moderate pace brought him just a few steps behind the pair. He kept himself at a reasonable distance back, finding it hard to kept proper pace with his shorter companions without feeling like he was walking in slow motion. Oliver had been lost in thought, finding himself staring at the backs of Finn and Lighter with interest, when suddenly Finn was knocked to the floor. The sound of two bodies smacking against the linoleum made him jump out of his skin, taking a half-step back and tensing his muscles, ready to bolt.

However, Oliver hesitated his flee. The person who smacked into Finn, a dark haired girl whom was now getting back to her feet, muttering apologies and offering her hand to Finn in assistance, didn't look like the threatening type at all. Lighter was by far more intimidating, by any stretch of the imagination. This girl, however, just looked normal (Dressed a bit strange, but normal. Then again, Oliver was no expert of that kind of thing), for all Oliver was concerned. As she helped Finn back to his feet, she called over her shoulder into the hall behind her, "I found more people!"

That was when more figures came into view and the panic in Oliver's chest spiked again.

Aside from the girl who had toppled Finn, Oliver counted that there were two more girls and two guys trailing behind. Oh god... Oliver cursed himself mentally for not hanging back at the entrance now. This was a lot of people. Too many people, actually. As they all started to clot together in the middle of the empty hall, Oliver found himself edging toward the lockers that lined the walls, hovering off to the side hesitantly. One the guys, an average sized boy wearing an outrageously colored jersey, was already trying to pick fights with sharp-tongued Lighter. The tension between the two as they exchanged glares could be cut with a knife, but quickly dissipated as the jersey-clad boy turned to the dark haired girl to ask if she was alright.

Standing a few steps away from them, a blonde girl began to try to mediate the situation, "Don't fight, please. It won't get us anywhere and honestly, in a group this small, do you really want enemies? If you went half and half friends vs enemies you'd only have 4 friends!" After a moment, she smiled, turning to Finn, Lighter, and Oliver, and waved, "I'm Lemon."

Mustering up some courage he had on very short supply, Oliver decided that being a wallflower was going to get him nowhere fast. Out of all the new people, he found the blonde girl, Lemon, to be the most welcoming and probably the easiest to approach. Picking his way slowly and carefully around the edge of the crowd, Oliver offered Lemon his hand, only slightly shaky, talking just above a whisper, "Nice to... Nice to meet you, Lemon." Oliver had his eyes trained on his shoes, and had no intention of raising them, "I'm... Well... I'm calling myself... I'm Trees." He managed to finished lamely.

God, he must have been a blast at parties before all of this.

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Charlotte "Splat" Montgomery

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Splat blindly followed Lemon out of the cafeteria, but kept shyly at a safe distance behind. She felt more comfortable this way; blending in, following someone else obediently...it seemed like she had done this a lot in her life so far. She glanced curiously ahead once they reached where Mouse was and saw that she and an unfamiliar boy were on the floor. She smiled in slight curiosity as they regained their bearings before looking to the new additions to the strangers in the building; a seriously intimidating looking girl with fiery red hair, a guy with a tree tattoo, and another guy that Splat stared at longer than she should've. Charlotte's cheeks flushed when she realized this and turned to look instead at the other members of the group.

She watched as a few introductions were made and stood politely and quietly at where she was, not having enough confidence to speak up and say who she had dubbed herself as. Charlotte was perfectly fine staying as invisible and out of the spotlight as possible, and fidgeted shyly with the bottom of her cardigan while the others went back and forth with each other. She glanced up every so often to follow the conversation and show interest, but the ever-growing group made her feel more uncomfortable with each additional member, seeing as she didn't know any of them. This made her uneasy of her surroundings and the fact that the clocks were all frozen certainly didn't help either.

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Finn glanced over his shoulder at Trees, glad that the tall fellow had ended up coming with them. Finn wasn't quite sure how long he would be able to handle Lighters blunt and snarky remarks by himself. He gave the wet teen behind him an appreciate smile before turning back around. As they walked through the cold deserted hallways of the school, Finn noticed how the few clocks they came in contact with, weren't working. How weird.... Had time actually stopped or just the clocks? Had they been placed in some warp black hole or something? Everything about who they were, had been erased. Was this a good thing or a bad thing? A blessing or a curse?

Finn clutched his head as a headache began to resurface, thinking about anything before waking up in the library made his brain scream. Finn tried to shake the pain away as he shut his eyes beginning to concentrate on the things he knew for a fact. Concentrating so hard that he was completely unaware of the person in front of him. Well before he was on the ground.

Finn stared up into green eyes. "Oh shi-I'm sorry." The girl on top of him immediately stood up, glancing behind her as she spoke. "I found more people." Her eyes returned to his. "The floors, terribly slippery." She gave him a smile and extended her hand. Finn gave a short nod, "I knew it couldn't have just been my charm that made you fall into my arms." The blue eyed boy laughed awkwardly, returning the lame attempt at a joke and rubbing one of his arms that had been crushed between their bodies while he had tried to continue to hold his book.

"Or you're just a giant fool, tripping over themselves." Finn glanced over at Lighter who stood off to the side, he groaned inwardly feeling the need to apologize for her words as a male came stomping out of some door. It seemed like Lighter and the guy in the football jersey would definitely bump heads the way he stood up to her.

"You alright, love?" The dark haired male asked the girl, his caring tone and worried eyes, making Finn think the two were an item. "You okay?" The boy asked now addressing Finn, only getting a small nod in response.

Finn stared at the two out stretched hands. One from the girl who he had run into and one from the football player. Quickly tucking his book under his armpit he took both, hoisting himself up.

"Thanks." He nodded looking around, while on the ground he had missed quite a lot. A girl with golden blonde hair, named Lemon, Finn thought he caught while on the ground, stood by Trees introducing themselves.

It seemed like a lot of people now occupied the hallway, Finn noticed as his eyes passed over a girl with dark brown hair standing near the back. His eyes immediately returned to her, and he couldn't stop himself from staring. She was absolutely beautiful, her hazel eyes were shyly fixated on the ground and every so often, she would glance back up, but Finn could never seem to catch her gaze. Though he had no idea what he would do if he did catch it. Probably make an absolute fool of himself.

Finn turned back to the girl he had run into regrettably tearing his gaze from the shy girl in the corner.

"You wouldn't happen to know your names would you?" Finn asked doubtfully remembering that the blonde headed girl had called herself Lemon.

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"Okay slow down Casanova, I'm not your love" she laughed slightly before awkwardly waving to the the group of people they had met. She looked as the people introduced themselves, the girl that had called her a fool spoke up as well.
"Lighter" she said with a sigh, making Mouse raise her brow. She patted herself off and smiled at boy she fell on.
[color=#4A2C46]"It could have been the charm. You defiantly radiate girl magnet" she humored, patting Captain on the shoulder.
"Chill out, I have the strangest feeling I've been called worse than a fool" she said, her eyes darting to give Lighter a annoyed glare. To the man that named himself Trees she questioned how he got his name. Tree humping possibly. She shook the thought. At least her personality remained in tact despite her lost memories.

Mouse smiled over at Lemon about the name comment. With the realization none of these people probably had their memories either - or knew there names, Mouse was a bit more reassured.
"I swear if my name is Agnes or Eleanor, I'm going to jump off the roof of the school" Mouse sighed, crossing her arms across her chest. The Nirvana logo was now covered, but she still had the Modest Mouse C.D. Faintly she heard the sound of rainfall echoing throughout the hallways. Was it raining? It would explained why one of them seemed a bit...wet.

She ran fingers through her dark hair and desperately wished for answers. She didn't feel like a religious person but they all needed a prayer at this point. A needing of being alone crept into Quinn. People felt like a drain on her, though she was the jokester witty tongued girl, she felt as if that wasn't the whole of her being. Parts of her felt dark and missing. It was a strange feeling to say the least. Not knowing who you are, where your from, your mom or dads name, what kind of life is that.

"I'm guessing there are no more people around, and that outside it's pouring" she thought aloud, looking over each of the people critically. Trees was a shy one, it was plain as day. The boy she bumped into seemed to be witty tongued like herself, but she got the vibe that he much rather be alone somewhere. Lighter - well she was just her. A spitfire. Splat looked to be the artsy creative shy type from what she judged so far, and Lemon looked to be a bit of a moral compass.

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Outfit

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Charlotte "Splat" Montgomery

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Charlotte listened intently as the gorgeous new stranger asked who everyone was, turning towards Lemon. She sighed a small sigh of relief and hugged herself more tightly, wondering about the strange sound resounding above them.

"I swear if my name is Agnes or Eleanor, I'm going to jump off the roof of the school," Mouse had sighed as she crossed her arms across her chest. Splat smiled in agreement, noticing the CD in her hands and the probable reason for the girl's name. She watched as the girl ran her fingers through her hair and looked around in thought, as if trying to figure everything out. Each member in the group had their own ways of trying to decipher what had happened to all of them, and it was interesting to Charlotte to see how each of them showed and voiced their process. Watching people was captivating to her, it was interacting with them that she seemed to have the biggest struggle with.

"I'm guessing there are no more people around, and that outside it's pouring," Mouse went on aloud before looking at each and every member of the group. When her eyes went to Splat, she met her gaze shyly, glad there were more leader-type members in the group than she.

"This is probably really stupid to suggest, but should we go look? Outside, I mean. There might be other places with food or better shelter..." Charlotte rambled and then trailed off. Her voice had started strong and clear but by the end of her sentence was barely above a whisper. Wow, she was terrible at this.

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