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Rhys frowned looking after Hawk, he certainly hadn't been trying to be greedy and that others might think that had never crossed his mind. He didn't understand the holiday but had been attempting to enjoy what there was to offer. He'd had a pretty good impression of Hawk from before, "something seems off with him..." glancing over Rhys looked toward Tek, "though I really don't know him well, maybe he's only nice if he's getting something from you." Resting the arm over his shoulder like a club Rhys walked through the area left open inside the clock, "there are lots of people like that." Rhys would have considered just leaving at this point if he could have just left, but a part of his mind did chide that he was likely taking things too personally and it would be childish.

Tek hadn't really been paying attention, he'd been hoarding the candy. For what he wasn't sure, the wrappers were nice and maybe he could take a piece to Bity, the shadow was mildly concerned about the size of the candy it was small but he suspected it might be too thick to slide under Bity's door. Taking his mind off of the warped Medusa he blinked looking up to Rhys, do you think this could be slid under a door? Tek held up the newest bit of candy.

Wrinkling his brow Rhys watched Tek a moment and sighed, "I have no idea...why would you even ask such a thing?" Pausing Rhys looked over the new area, it was dark and cobwebby but appeared to be pretty quiet, the whispering voices moved around him and he looked up the stairs, a soft light of some sort came from down the stairs and he could hear the sound of running water. The house hadn't really hit on any of his personal demons, the boy had learned to sit on them when he was waking; the worst usually came to haunt him in his sleep. "Up it is then..." moving up the stairs Rhys could see the door at the top was cracked open the bit of light was coming from within, and now the sound of running water had been replaced by the sounds of movement in water, from what they could see through the crack it appeared to be a bathroom.

Rhys paused outside the door standing for a long moment, remembering the dolls he hefted the plastic arm and pushed the door open. Staring within the room his already pale features lost even more color and he stared at the bath. Two little boys sat in the bath, blood covered them as if they had been cut and wounded their eyes were vacant and empty and they turned as the door opened, "Mommy? ...have you seen our Mommy...." Rhys stepped forward uneasily frowning and looking at the bath, the children themselves in bloody bathwater would have been bothersome enough but Rhys recognized them, his subconscious had decided he deserved his own bout of personal terror. The two little boys were himself and Max, "Mommy, where is our Mommy?" they stared at him with vacant dead eyes. Max - Cinder didn't even know he'd existed, the one to the left he knew would have been Max with his deformed face and blue eyes. "Rhys?" The deformed Max child looked at him directly and held it's hands up blood covering them, "your why Mommy doesn't know me." Rhys finally jerked back as if hit physically as the apparitions accusation hit true, his hands he realized felt warm, sticky... glancing down he saw that his hands were now bloody. Seeing the blood on his hands Rhys started to rapidly back up his eyes widening in panic between his hands and the children in the bath.

Tek hadn't seen his bonded react in such a fashion to anything they had seen so far, after all the bit of fright had been exciting but now the fiend grew worried and darted over after Rhys, Rhys! Stop! Rhys, the stairs! Rhys either couldn't hear Tek or wasn't listening, moving backward he hit the stairs moving backwards and started to fall.

Muttering Rhys glanced behind him, he'd cried out after just bumping into another door. Tek brought his hand up in front of his face as if he was covering a giggle.

"Not funny at all," Rhys muttered darkly, his nerves were beginning to fray in a very bad way, he wanted out of the house and perhaps he'd smoke one of the cigarettes he was holding for Ume. He didn't really smoke but something about the situation almost demanded it.

Tek continued his giggling the little shadow was moving backward as he did not looking to where his path was taking him, you sound like she when you do that. Tek sat under one of the shelves of dolls and a larger doll dressed all up in pink and frills lunged from the shelf onto the shadow. Tek was solid enough at the moment that the doll actually hit him, Eeeeeeeeeiiiii! Startled the shadow phased from solidarity and the doll fell to the floor.

"Now who sounds like a girl?"

We are not bothered by being she or he.

"Yeah, we should discuss how strange that is sometime...when toys aren't trying to get violent with us." The doll was crawling toward the two, narrowing his eyes Rhys brought the arm up and swung it at the doll putting the toy further away. "It's just a doll..." muttering Rhys turned back tot he door he'd bumped into earlier, "but best not take a chance and stick around too long," reaching out he pushed the door open.