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The time spent in the minipet cages was a lost cause, while Sammy had found a few familiar students especially Thackery, it hadn't shined any light on why they where hunters. Why when she tried to summon her artifact she instead found herself holding a very large, though admirably cool buster sword instead.

Fumbling in her pockets she drew out a phone, flicking through semi familiar faces, some of them if she looked hard enough the face that really belonged to them would surface in her mind. She paused at one name Haddy. There was a pause.

"Yaya."

There was another pause, this one made Sammy's eyes go wide. She began hammering out text after text to Riley. She'd been missing for ages at the school, when the first five didn't get an answer she selected "Haddy" next.

She was somewhere near the Labs, which is where Riley should be, unless she was at the dorms in which case she should wait for Yaya, but they might just end up walking back there anyway.



The fact that everyone she had met wasn't a real hunter, and the hunter leads where no one she knew threw up even more red flags. Her pace quickened towards the dorms at once.

Sammy's own discomfort was, well, she couldn't say minimal, the fact that her left hand was skin and bone with a skull tattoo on the back of the hand was disturbing, and her eyes being physical again was strange. She already missed the low light vision of her normal ones.

The good news was her hair was still the same, and purple contacts she wore ended up being decent enough signs.

"Yaya?" She shouted from a distance, looking at the girl who almost matched but not quite, "Is that you?"

Even given their distance in terms of being friends it was still relief to hear Yaya’s voice questioning her name. As Sammy jogged closer it became more clear that some of them indeed retained more of their original selves. The two toned hair, the love for heavy boots, the purple contacts. What sucked was this constant need to breath. No sooner had Sammy gotten to Yaya and she was doubled over breathing hard from her run.

“F-faah, yeah, it’s me but, holy s**t. Breathing. It’s awful.” She took a deep breath and stood up right inspecting Yaya properly for the first time in nothing but a t-shirt. In another time and place she might have found the over sized t-shirt being the only thing on another ghouls body appealing, but this wasn’t the time or place for that.

“Do you know where Riley last was? I haven’t seen her at all today and she could be here or the labs. Jack I don’t even know how long we’ll remember stuff even.”

It was a distinctly Undead issue, sleeping, breathing, all little things Sammy never actively did and so it was suddenly very confusing to a brain that wasn’t sure if she was dead or alive. Rattling her whole body, taking another deep breath she nodded. “The labs it is, maybe someone there will have seen-” she was cut off suddenly by an unexpected hug.

Her own arms slowly wrapped around Yaya, a few light pats on the back urging her to relax a little bit. There was a calm, if only for a moment while Yaya sorted her thoughts out, Sammy nodding in agreement. “Yeah that sounds about right for me too.” Relaxing she let Yaya go giving her a curious look. “Is this your first time dealing with multiple memories?” She asked curiously as she mumbled about her, not being her, but still her.

Sammy laughed softly at this, “You’re in for a treat, I’ve got at least three sets in my head now?” She counted, “Blue kingdom, Manthis, the whole mess with the first hunters and Avalon. Now this brings me to four if we remember it later.” Nodding as Yaya spoke again she started back towards the labs

“You’ve ran into hunters before, you know some by name or face. Have you seen any of the real hunters or just. Us?” She made a vague gesture at herself, sporting a white coat, black and red clothes tied with belts under it. It would take a few minutes to get to the labs still, didn’t hurt to poke around for more info on the jog there.

Sammy watched that look of fear, a curious look on her face, "Don't worry, one of them I made a deal with, another I've mostly forgotten, and one has knowledge some Hunter's aren't even aware of." She shrugged, "If you ignore it long enough, it kinda goes away." Sort of she thought. The memories of the queens, the terrible things Manthis had done. The stretch of time with lost memories.

Not all of it was pleasing.

Continuing onward she glanced back at Yaya as the coldness of her face slipped into her words. "So then they aren't here, the leads are all wrong too. No H, or Caelius with his crazy weapon." She made no mention that she was going to call Jordan and have a long talk with the hunter.

The two continued onward finally at the labs:

Break Time (CW: Gore)