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"Snow... Graves?"

Raina was fairly sure that graves weren't how people were kept warm and safe. She was pretty sure that was what dead people were put into...

And then all the people disappeared...

But this was Noah's story, and she opted not to ruin it with any more of those questions! No, she needed to know what happened next. What was worse? Why did it look like Noah was about to cry? Nervously, she edged a bit closer, trying to pat Noah's shoulder this time instead of the cast. At least she had smiled from the cast patting...

Raina's eyes widened.

A creepy cabin in the woods? This was setting up like one of those cop shows her Mama watched sometimes--

Wait a clown in a creepy cabin?!

"Was he a serial killer?!" asked Raina, in a voice that was somehow both horrified and fascinated all at once. "That sounds like the kinda thing you hear in one of those cop dramas right? Creepy guy in the woods in a cabin!"

She paused, before edging closer, lowering her voice.

"But he was real..."

Raina squeezed Noah's hand in turn, because it seemed like the right thing to do and it seemed like Noah needed the support. She seemed afraid, especially with the way her grip was going from being just a small squeeze to something of a vice grip.

It kinda hurt a little, but Raina tried to keep the urge to cringe off her face while she listened to Noah's words.

"Kinda sounds like something outta a horror movie...," murmured Raina, thoughtfully. There was a specific horror movie she was thinking of, actually, one that she wasn't supposed to see but she snuck and watched anyway behind her mother's back. What? She was a badass superhero, she saw worse things on the street than she would see on a damn movie screen!

Wait, Noah was crying--

Raina scooted a bit closer, opening her arms for a hug if Noah wanted it. "He definitely sounds like a horror movie serial killer supervillain," confirmed Raina, scrunching her nose. What a terrible man! If she saw him, she would smite him! She didn't need to ask why the villain did what he did--it was obvious, really. But she did want to ask, "Was it like, the stereotypical evil laughs you hear in cartoons, or was it like, something else?"

Quieter, she added, "And I'm glad you're here, ya know? And okay? Besides for the arm. Do you know who the other hero was?"

Because Mimosa was still a hero, even if she had been momentarily defeated. Teamwork made the dream work, after all!

Raina squeezed back, trying to be comforting. It seemed like it was working, which was a relief-- Raina wanted to be a comfort to all of her friends, if possible. Also a protector of them all, but that came with the whole superhero territory--

Senshi of salt? What a weird power base! She supposed it wasn't any weirder than geese was, though, all things considered... Wait, his name was Dice? At least Anser made sense! She looked it up, it actually apparently meant Geese, which in some ways totally explained everything about her power base even though it explained nothing else-- "Dice of Salt?" asked Anser, giggling a little bit. "Was he salty?"

Nothing like cartoons? She needed to figure out what a real evil laugh sounded like, then...

"No, no sorry! It's okay," offered Raina, with a wide grin, as Noah pulled back. It was clear that Raina was trying to cheer her up a bit, with the jokes and the smiles, and even added after Noah was done talking, "Still think it's kinda shitty he grounded you for getting defeated."

Raina sat back on the couch, looking to the television ahead of them. Hmm...

"You wanna play some video games? Get out the," she squinted, running through her English vocabulary words once more, "aggression at the evil clown man."