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Rin was running around trying to find Melvin in the chaos when she arrived just in time to watch him vanish beneath the sand in a wave of black hands. She ran over to try and dig him back up.

Nothing but sand slipped through her fingers.

She persisted in digging until she heard his voice speaking from behind. She was immediately squinting at that smile. She saw you there. She knows you do not belong. She squinted harder.

Nevada took this moment to bring Leroy up and fire a warning shot at the not Stormy.

"If you're gonna masquerade as us, at last attempt to be more realistic" Nevada hissed, trying to crawl her way closer.

There had been people missing, he kind of noticed that. Did realize there were bones. But then people resurfaced and Milo squinted at them. Sure, he wanted to believe they were okay - he had made it out relatively okay from the belly of a beast. Celebration of them being alive was cut short. Because then that pretty Mist hunter who he gave the rune stone to said otherwise. Well, best to trust the judgement of those who knew these people, right?

"So, like you guys are sayin' this is like those episode where they make a copy to try to fool everyone else and stuff?" Yeah, like the talking in unison thing wasn't creepy and a trigger. Thankfully grabbing that chain did prove useful in more than one way, 'cause he was able to hold Koume out with one hand. "Ask questions first....?"

"But I am me." Stormy didn't flinch from the warning shots and contined to pleasantly smile as the other two nodded in unison. "Watch."

Still smiling, she pressed her palm against the blade of her weapon and cut deeply, red dripping freely from her wound. The wound did not heal or smoke the trademark deep black of Fear.

The yelp from Stormy had caught her attention, but it had all been too fast for Abbi to see. She did, however, catch sight of the other boy being swallowed by the blackness. That was enough to make her turn a few shades paler, but things seemed alright a few moments later when they appeared again. That was startling enough to send the teen trotting forward into the sand that nearly swallowed her. She squeaked and clawed her way up to not quite fully covered before she flinched at the gunshot.
"Ah! Nevada, listen to that lady!" It was almost an attempt at a scolding, but not quite. But the girl remained undaunted and did her best to make her way after the older girl, even if that meant getting closer to the weird impersonators.

As Abbi made her way over she tried very, very hard to think of something to say to the trio. Nothing really good was coming to her mind and she turned up a frown at them just in time to see the Fake Stormy cut her hand. Another squeak escaped her and Abbi flailed a little harder.
"N-no no no noooo! Don't do that!" The brightness of the blood caught her eye, but she didn't flinch from it. "If we say we believe you, then what?" It was as good a question as she could think of, especially if it meant keeping them from all cutting themselves to prove their "realness".

"You're a li--" What..

Candace's eyes widened. No. That couldn't be it. That was impossible. This wasn't Stormy, it wasn't Melvin, it wasn't Ian.

Or maybe..

She narrowed her eyes again. It had to be something. Famine bugs? Could they do that? Where was Otto, he spent a lot of time with them.. "Otto! I hate to ask you this but...is any of this behavior familiar to you?" She called out to the Death hunter, frowning. She turned to the trio again, watching them critically. They had to be possessed in some way...

She was bleeding. That meant she wasn't dead, right? They weren't..it wasn't a repeat of Julie? Could she make them turn around? The wound didn't heal like it should.

Suddenly Pandora let off a shot. s**t. That was either a really good or really bad idea.

Rin gave a shout as Melvin was fired at, especially after a bloody display. But no damage had been done. The shout choked in her throat and she just stared at the man. Okay. So. They weren't replaced and they werent... full of things... that only left a handful of other ideas.

She was squinting holes through Melvin before putting on a forced look of peace. "Ah Melvin. Feeling better I see." She approached and attempted to grab him and try to check him over for ticks.