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D A Y 0 4
CHAPTER 2
Nov 3rd | 63℉☁
▸ Due to last night's storms, a quarter of Blackwell is still without power. It seems a tree has fallen on a power line, which will be promptly inspected by BWI and fixed ASAP.
▸ The worst of that storm is now over, thank god. Weather reports cloudy days from here on out.
▸ Fairweather and Winters kids are still missing. Local authorities and volunteers are resuming their search in the immediate area. Please, if you have the time, go join the cause.
▸ In a sad turn of events, the remains of Kara Samson have been returned to the family not a week ago. Details surrounding her disappearance and cause of death have not yet been released.
▸ Rumors say that the county morgue outside of Elkins was broken into early this morning, but officials decline to comment on the matter.
▸ Today's news radio is brought to you by Black Lodge Bar! Head on down to Black Lodge for their all day Monday happy hour!
▸ And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
THE RISING IS NOT IN EFFECT
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[a spy nearly ran him off the road. no joke. he grabs at the chain to lean over and catch her look]
But yeah he goes here. He's like really big into the church thing or something. [shrugs to emphasize his disinterest in his humble hobbies.] He doesn't care about all the bullshit though. [the dead people bullshit. he's never asked him about it or treated him like a spaz. i mean he nearly busted a guy's head in front of him and they're still cool. he won't say that part.] You'd probably like him.
[not like that though. don't like him like that. he's just saying. if she finds herself in the outcrowd now she has peepl]
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[russian spies, huh? not likely. the only interesting that happens around here is the statistically improbably high disappearance rate. which isn't boring, but it's not russian spies.
still, it makes her smile. just a little.]
Maybe I'll come to Blackwell and hang out with you more often. You know how you can, like... Know a lot of people but you don't really know anybody?
[bela was one of the few outside of her family.]
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Kinda. [2deep hailey. squints at her like he's trying to look deep and he gets it but he doesn't. he never examined his relationships that closely. they're teenage friends they're supposed to be vapid and fleeting.] I mean you can know me if you want. Ask me anything. My middle name is Benedict. [pause for laughter.]
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[she laughs before she thinks better of it, and there's a moment of guilt there but it's a flash in the pan. hides the expression in her sleeve but she has to lower it to ask him again.]
Is it really Benedict? God, I'm sorry. Mine's Nora, but most people know that already. You probably knew that.
[are we facebook friends? we're probably facebook friends.]
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Nora. It sounds like an old cat lady. Yeah, I know the whole town's. You know Dr. Abernathy? His middle name is Dorothy.
[it's true he asked him himself. he didn't just make that up]
So now you know like, two people.
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[she's not really offended, though, that'd be dumb. she does like haileynoravaughn though. it's way better than colbybenedictmoran. your parents really had it in for you.]
Really, Dorothy? I guess it'd be hard to find something worse than "Lester" to go in the middle of it, since there seems to be some kind of rule about middle names being the worst.
[well, her dad's is pretty normal. she doesn't think aunt alex or uncle ben have middle names.]
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You know him? [squeaky lazy swinging. his legs are too long to properly swing so he's kind of walk-swinging. he glances across at her with his eyebrows furrowed, he thought he had seen everyone who was a regular shrinkee at some point or another]
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[if you'd lie about a serious thing like that. come on colbybenedict. shakes her head at colby's frowning. sorry friend.]
No, my aunt does. They're not friends or anything but she's mentioned him.
[she thinks he's weird, which is saying something, since aunt alex is pretty weird herself.]
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[he doesn't know her aunt or what she knows about his psychologist but it doesn't really concern him so he switches gears, looking up into the woods when he hears a distant shout of someone in the impromptu search party. well, he's not doing jack shit, and neither is she, and it might help to feel like they're doing something]
[also who is he kidding it's just alone time with her so that'd be rad]
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[it's enough of a shift in mental gears that at first she's not sure what he means, but then she hears the same thing he does, the shout off in the woods. she nods and slides off of the swing, stomping a little to wake up a foot that's gone to sleep.]
Yeah. I mean, might as well, right? Did-do you know them at all?
[definitely not a quick enough recovery there from the use of past tense. oops]
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[you tried. hops off the swing when it's at a high point, landing a few feet away from her with a stumble. dusts himself off and shrugs about it before resuming]
I mean they're in my grade, but I didn't know them. Seen them around. [he used to hang with colin, but they were never really friends. june was always kind of quiet and weird, so he never paid her attention. how the tables have turn. picks a direction and starts walking toward the treeline]
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I didn't know them either. I think Bela knew June, but she didn't hang out with us a lot or anything.
[starts scanning the trees for a break that might indicate some wandering desire path.]
Are we supposed to, I dunno, just wander around and look under bushes you think?
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[and they do this a lot so i guess yeah. kicks a rock with his hands in his pockets and looks up to see which way it went. it rolls down an underused path in a direction it sounds like water is coming from. looks to her to see if she's on board with the direction the universe picked for them]
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[starts down that way, ducking out of the way of branches and sidestepping rocks. she seems pretty at home in the woods, moving out of its way rather than snapping it out of her way. this path doesn't seem familiar to her specifically, but if it butts up against the park then she's definitely been in this general area before.]
You'd think, growing up here, I'd have done this before, but I haven't.
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[that's kinda morbid. pulls hands from his pockets to cup them around his mouth and yell their names, scaring a bird out of a tree but otherwise receiving no other signs of their whereabouts for his troubles]
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pauses after colby shouts to listen, and she can faintly hear others wandering around in the woods take up the call. like it's some kind of reflex. this is the least empty the woods have ever seemed.]
Yeah. I mean, it happens a lot, doesn't it? Then their parents or kids or whatever just give up.
[shrugs.]
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[stationary for a moment, he bumps the toe of his sneaker against a tree root before looking up at her. he doesn't usually talk about it voluntarily, but feels like he should defend himself in the face of accusation]
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[covers her mouth with her hands. she didn't mean it to be an accusation, just an observation of something that sucks about the place. she'd forgotten, just for a second, who she was talking to. it's not just some weird crap that happens to other kids for colby. and now sort of for her but jesus. everyone knows about colby.]
I'm sorry. I know, I wasn't thinking. Sorry. I know you didn't.
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[he lightens up, reaches over to push at her arm to get her to stop groveling. it's genuine sounding when he says so, because it means she forgot for a minute, like she didn't associate him with the disappearance and tragedy and whatever for that minute and he's ok with that]
Chill.
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[all right, that was the last one, she's definitely done apologizing now. a little more embarrassed, she's going to continue down the path they were following.]
So did Blackwell not have school today, or did you just not have school today?
[not reproachful. it's not like she'd have a leg to stand on there. she figures it's probably the latter.]
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[rhetorical. unless elkins has a holiday blackwell doesn't. follows her after a beat and ducks under a branch that nearly wings him in the face as she passes it]
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turns back to the path ahead. there is a creek near here, isn't there? she thought she heard it back up closer to the park.]
I just didn't feel like being stared at anymore. You know? I probably just made it worse.
[colby probably does know, only she has no doubt it's been way worse for him.]
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[who needs a bunch of assholes that only know how to talk behind your back anyway. shrugs at her as he angles sideways to pass her on the path, holding a branch to the side to see ahead. it goes on for a while but the sound of water is coming from their right, and he heard somewhere you should always go to the water. not that they're lost but maybe june and colin heard that, too.]
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[it's probably what her dad's gonna say when she comes back on friday. her mom's probably gonna say something about being the bigger person and moving on and shit, but her dad's going to get it, a little. maybe.
steps up on a log next to the path to squint down the hill toward the water. looks back at colby.]
Do you wanna–?
[path or stream? she seems pretty stream-inclined.]
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