khaneaihoto

[khaneaihoto]

As I head back towards the woods, I see a couple of people sitting on a bench by the edge of the clearing. They're both looking out over the forest and talking about something. I can't quite make it out, but it sounds like they're talking about something important. I move closer to the edge of the clearing and peek my head out. I hear two voices coming from inside.

“Do you think you can do that? For me?”

... I can’t make out the other person.

“Good. I’ll see you once this is all over.” 

And they left in different directions. 

[khaneaihoto]

"If you say so. I just want to get home."

"Alright then, but I'd suggest staying away from the road for now." 

We continue walking and eventually reach a clearing. The trees seem to have grown out of the ground, and there's an opening in one of them. A large metal door stands right at the entrance.

“What is this?”

“The generator to power this whole place, I’ll have to fix it, but no one will bother us here so don’t wander off too far, okay?” 

[khaneaihoto]

“Help me up?”

“Yeah, yeah. Let’s go.”

I walk along side Hữu who seems to be leading the way. As I do so, I notice that the sky is starting to turn red. It's almost like when they turned off the power in town yesterday...

“Does the sky look weird to you?”

“It does, but it will get better.”

[khaneaihoto]

I wake up in the morning with a start. My head hurts like hell and I feel like I've been run over by a truck. The pain doesn't stop though, but rather just gets worse as I sit there trying to figure out where exactly all of this is coming from. I looked around... I realize that I’m still lying on the ground. There's no sign of Hữu either. In fact, she looks completely normal. She even has her gun back in hand.

“Hữu? Where are we?”

“Hey, Ray. I don’t know... The middle of the woods I guess.”

“Are we safe?”

“We’re fine, but I’m not sure what happened to you...”

[khaneaihoto]

“If you want to come with you’re going to have to take this, and learn how to Dimension Hop.”

“This doesn’t seem so bad! Is dying scary?”

“...Not really. Not when you know you’ll be fine.” 

The last thing I see before I pass out is the sun setting in the distance...

[khaneaihoto]

“I...? No.”

“Yeah, well you're not going to convince me otherwise. So how about this for proof? Take me with you?”

“You’re a child, don’t you have school or something?”

“I’m 16. School is on break (lie).”

[khaneaihoto]

“Did you hear about that girl who died ... J something..?”

“You mean Julie? How do you know about that if it just happened?”

“Last night, she got into an argument with another person. Julie went home and when she came back, the other person was gone. The police were called and they think it might have been suicide or homicide.”

“That makes no sense, it just happened it wasn’t last night!”

“How do you know that, Ray? Did you kill her?” 

[khaneaihoto]

Hello! I...Don’t know you, but I think I need to. I’m glad you’re here.

Sorry, who are you?

My name is ____, I'm your new friend.

Could you repeat that for me?

It's ____.

Right, well my name is Ray... Nice to meet you.

[khaneaihoto]

Enjoy it while your luck lasts, but the Witch of Waltaiusunarga won’t lose forever.

I don’t have the time to listen to ghosts. 

[khaneaihoto]

Whatever, I’ll enjoying killing you over and over again. One time wasn’t enough, anyway. 

[khaneaihoto]

God, you’re really a moron aren’t you? 

If one of us dies we just go to another world, you should've known this by now. 

[khaneaihoto]

How are you here? How are you alive?

[khaneaihoto]

Where are we? What year is it? What are we doing? Does it hurt, Ray? Does it fucking hurt? 

[khaneaihoto]

WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?

[khaneaihoto]

The sun shined through the windows as we woke up the next morning... I greeted Hữu with a smile but she still looked so grave.

Hữu, what’s wrong?

...

...What is it?

I can’t help you, Hữu moved on last night.

Th-then...Who are you ?

That’s kind of private. 

[khaneaihoto]

That’s okay we can just try to help you remember!

It’s a good idea but I’m so tired, can we just sleep for now...?

Y-yeah. Of course.