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Temperance blinked and hovered behind Zac like an overly large, gangling puppy. She had no idea who any of these people were but waved briefly, nonetheless.

"Should we just... go in?" And see what would happen?

The assembled group is suddenly struck with the feeling that IT IS NOT TIME TO GO IN. Perhaps they should wait to strengthen their numbers before approaching the mansion.

Alexis wasn't, necessarily, friends with Autumn -- or even on any level of positive acquaintanceship. What few words they'd exchanged had both been in a life-or-death situation (of a sort), and not necessarily kind words. But they always kept an ear out for disappearances in the city - had even before Ashdown, really, one had to have a hobby, and what they'd been able to catch about the scenario of hers was...well.

It wasn't pleasant. But she'd gotten on so very well with the Peaceful One, so -- odds were -- this was an other-Ashdown thing. (It was pleasant in other Ashdown. Quiet. Rainy. Lonely, usually, but there were plenty of people here. Alexis would say so, at least, except they had to consider the fact that this was only the second time they'd been there; and both times - given the atmosphere, and Smith's disappearance - it had been in MURDERDEATHPLACEZONE situations. And Sunny - whoever she was - whatever she was, with her face on the sign, with the trees and the deer and the ice...well. It was dangerous, and it was awful, and that was sort of reassuring in its' own way? As reassuring as the constant low-level threat of murder could really be.)

Alexis hovered at the edge of the group, a pocketknife in their back pocket and their hair in a messy bun, and stared intensely at Jeremiah like he was the harbinger of destruction. When Jeremiah stared back, Alexis smiled. And just kept smiling, lips peeling back to reveal their teeth. This face made people uncomfortable, after all -- and Jeremiah was a man they absolutely wanted to make uncomfortable.

He thought he knew everything. Some adults did. Cops? Detectives? They always wanted to feel like they did, to the point where it was suffocating - Alexis wanted to rip that look off his face. Tear his skin away and watch him bleed it out - but. That was a Bad Child way to think. (They'd never be able to get rid of that idea. That things were Bad Kid and Good Kid -- no matter how much they squashed it down, it'd taken root far too long ago to do anything about.) After all - killing was illegal. It was! And it was for a reason -- but that wasn't the point here, was it? They needed to save Autumn. From whatever she'd done to herself. This sort of ********, whatever it was, you didn't just have it happen: oh, no. You had to embrace it down.

Jeremiah stared right back at Alexis, matching intense stare for intense stare. A look that spoke of I am watching you because I absolutely do not trust you.

His attention immediately flicked back to Chris at the mention of Silent Hill and the high school teacher got a stern look. "Are you the reason she was excessively unnerved by the hospital? You've been here and you would - ugh!" Jeremiah actually managed to make a noise of disgust and annoyance. Congrats, Chris! He let out a snort.

"Yes, I can tell. If something is dangerous, means me harm, I can feel it and that place," a finger was pointed to the house, his tone was still bordering on contained anger and annoyance, "is nothing but danger."

Algie adjusted his glasses, then the leather bag he'd been carrying when he found himself here so that he could also give Zac a wave. It was a bit strange to see other familiar faces reappearing, people he'd only seen that last time they were there was a group. It begged to question why they were drawn in crowds.

"It's never good," He glanced back up at the house and it's invitingly warm windows, "when something that looks pleasant here," then back to Jeremiah and Chris, "is guaranteed to be sinister."

As soon as the words slipped out of her mouth, she shivered. A sense of wrongness swept over her - they shouldn't go in. For a moment she froze entirely, like a deer caught in the headlights of a semi-truck. Then she exhaled and stuck both hands in the pocket of her sweater. Temperance stood and tried to absorb everything like an out-of-place sponge. She could accept this was another world, okay. Not a dream. Still, it was all very weird and she supposed she should be freaking out but all she felt was... surprisingly calm. Ignorance really was bliss.

"So it's like... spidey sense." She said to the completely unfriendly detective. "Do you also shoot web?" The other man could apparently ingest plants and she wondered for a moment how he even knew. "Silent Hill, like - in my restless dreams, I see that town?" She swallowed a giggle, never having noticed the apropos nature of that quote. There was an... odd person, just staring, but Temperance politely ignored them.


idk who else

Rumor had it that something had happened to Autumn.

Like the others who had previously disappeared, so, too, did the selfie-queen.

This worried Asiya, for even though she only met her on the previous trip to Other Ashdown, she liked Autumn. And the last thing she wanted was for something to happen to the girl.

What had she gotten herself into?

She had arrived in Other Ashdown much as she did the first time: but not suspecting it. She had been working in the pottery studio, and she turned around for one moment, and was all of a sudden in the strange world. Yet she did not come unprepared. Ever since her first trip, the young woman always made sure she carried an umbrella in her purse, as well as a bottle of water and a few other odds and ends. She wasn't sure if she would need any of that stuff, but hey -- it could prove useful. And the umbrella certainly was.

"So I hope a group of us being here means we'll find out what's wrong with Autumn," Asiya said upon arrival, not being far off from the large group of other individuals who were already gathered outside of Sunny's house. A few of the faces she recognized immediately. There was Erin, and Jeremiah with Algie at his side. Christopher was also there, as was Alexis (whom she was a bit surprised to see, given the last incident in Other Ashdown), and Zac, too. Aside from all of the folks who had went to Other Ashdown previously, there were also new faces, which intrigued Asiya.

All of the visitors together was a lot to take in. Asiya suddenly saw a flare of vivid colors; a rainbow of auras from the different people who were there. Squinting, she narrowed her eyes and tried to focus on just one, rather then all of them as a whole. To make things easier, she picked Erin's aura, since she was not only a familiar sight, but a friend. She then focused on this energy, while allowing herself to glance at the new people to Other Ashdown. The last thing she wanted to be was rude, so she gave them all a slight wave, followed by a polite nod.

"It's refreshing to see new folks in Other Ashdown. I'm Asiya. Nice to meet you all!"