ii.

Image: Flash of a silhouette: Kay Lin jabs one of Caleb’s fangs into something.

Dear diary, today I almost got stabbed.

Image: She’s adding to a tally; she and Caleb are even. As she writes, talking to herself, the fang disintegrates like chalk. (Faint noise from elsewhere.)

I’ve been very good, all things considered. If I just stay down here for the rest of the night, or maybe even forever, then maybe they’ll just… go away, and no one else gets hurt—

Image: Crash!

Ah boy.

Image: Kay Lin glances off to the source of the noise.

I should… at least take a look….


Image: Hands on the ground—one pale and bony, oddly long and bloody beneath rubble; and the other belongs to Joce, kneeling.
Image: Kay Lin is perturbed.

So that’s what happens.

Image: Joce is hunched over, silent. Then looks abruptly up.
Image: Kay Lin stands at the end of the hall, not remotely hidden. Joce says something, to her surprise.

—Oh. I said that out loud, huh?

Hi.

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