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what in the longdark spitting-pit is that

This was a bad idea this was a bad idea this was a bad idea.

Holly runs as fast as she can but the demon's faster. She has no idea where Lightning's gotten to; maybe he found a tree to climb. She on the other hand has been diverted into a treeless hill and she's careening down a slope, trying very hard not to trip.

And the demon's gaining on her.

She's never seen anything like it and neither has Crystal; maybe Book knows what it is but Book's asleep. It's mostly mouth - it looks like a cross between a floorlength mirror of a mouth and a snake to propel the mouth along.

And Holly's not fast enough.

The mouth catches her.

But it doesn't hurt.

Where are we?

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with Minus (kappa)

with Mark (kappa)

with Max (Benedict)

in Terraria (kappa)

with Emma (Marri)

with Erin (Rockeye)

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"We," emphasizes Crystal, "were in a forest running from the demon that ate us."

He nods thoughtfully.

"How many of you(plural) are there?"

"Two. I'm Crystal and she's Holly."

"You(singular) started to be instead of Holly when you(singular) started to talk to the table?"

"Yes. Do you want to talk to Holly?"

He shrugs. "Does Holly want to talk to me?"

"She didn't want to talk to the table. She'll talk to you if you want. But she was the one running from the demon so she's a little tired."

"The table is not the most fun to talk to. Are you always one of you at one time?"

"Holly's still a little awake. We're unusual."

"Unusual because you are two? Or unusual because you are not always one of you at one time?"

"...Second thing. All adults are two, where we're from. But if you don't have demons, maybe you just sleep instead."

"Most people are one, here. I am one." He hesitates, then amends, "I don't know if I am one, but I don't think I am two like you are two or like your people are two."

"We were three," she volunteers. "But Book moved out because he's a boy. Usually people start out one and then they move in together so they don't have to sleep. A kind of demon called a klaon eats sleeping people."

"I might be zero, or one and a half, or three..." he murmurs, possibly to himself. Then he shakes his head and says, "Here there are no things that eat sleeping people, and no people who don't sleep."

"I noticed you were sleeping," she agrees. "Even though you're an adult. It was strange."

He laughs. "That's the first time sleeping has been the strange thing about me."

Crystal giggles.

"I'm many kinds of strange," he confides.

"We're only one kind of strange. But it's very strange. They called all three of us Holly till we explained."

"I was called by someone else's name until just a short time ago."

"Why?"

"Because I'm a [untranslated word]." He frowns at the desk, thinks, then elaborates. "The other person is Miles. Someone didn't like Miles, so he - made a second Miles. That's me. He called me Miles and taught me to think like Miles and act like Miles, and made me look just like Miles, but I'm not Miles. I... don't know who I am. But when I met Miles, the first Miles, he gave me a different name. Mark."

Crystal nods. "Holly came up with my name for me. She didn't like that everybody was calling me and Book by her name. Book named himself though."

"Why was it Holly's name when people were calling all of you by it?"

"We can't remember how we decided Holly was her instead of me. We were very little. They didn't know we were there," shrugs Crystal. "But it couldn't have been Book, it's a girl's name."

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