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"It'll take fifteen ******** minutes if we start moving," Aleksy said heatedly, "As opposed to debating! Finn says that's the way to go and Finn can always find the way out, so that's the way we're going."

Or at least, that's the way he was going. He started purposefully down the main road, stopped, turned around, and said, "Like Leila said! Do any of you have any better ideas!" It was a rhetorical question.

Aleksy kept on going. They'd follow if that was what they wanted to do.

With nothing else to say, Autumn tugged her new friend along, and headed out after their new leader. At least they'd figure out what the voice was, anyway.

Jeremiah's lips pressed to a thin line at the outburst. They had, for lack of a better word, had been moving that direction. It was just that some of them were still debating why and he knew. Mogget was dropped down to the ground, the umbrella lowered and no longer held up.

He grabbed Algie's arm, fingers going around his bicep and sliding briefly - without thinking - to brush against the inside of his wrist before his hand dropped. The other man was still kept close, just like Zac was always under his watchful eye. Jeremiah would walk in front of the group. Not that would mean much but he was stubborn and protective and still an officer.

"Ah, he ..." Jeremiah waved a hand in the air, glancing over his shoulder towards Aleksy and then back to Algie. "I somehow imagine my conversation with him went better than yours." Not that he had talked to the other about it. He had not been sure how to go oh, yeah, I've got a power now.

"Not quite sure I'm pleased you made another deal with Sunny but at least it was just books." Then, as if thinking about it because he knew it had to be so. "How bad was it?" The detective meant the questioning that likely happened because he knew it had to have happened.

"Yes when he told me," Algie's voice dropped again and he sounded disgusted, "I was incubating?"

Alg glanced aorund them, behind to see if any new faces had joined, then back to Jeremiah, "How bad was what?" Everyone he knew disappearing? The fog? Everyone implying he was slow for several days for not being ready or figuring it all out? Being held for questioning in his best friend's kidnapping??

That. Obviously. This was Jeremiah, "Oh my lengthy visit to the police department? For your kidnapping?"

Dead stare, Jeremiah. Dead stare.

"I don't know," he answered, uncrossing his arms again and shoving his hands into his pockets. Clearly this stance made him more personable... in his mind. "I feel like I've got to get there, so I'm going." Following the voice was a simple directive, and after the morning he'd had, anything that gave him something definitive to do was a comfort, even if it was leading him into a trap. At least then he'd know what he faced.

"It's easier than standing around wondering where we are. Or when? You are from Ashdown, right? Not whatever this place is." Rabbit had heard plenty of rumors about the fog in the three years since he'd moved here, he'd even paid attention to the recent spate of disappearances, but none of it was coming together for him. Not even reaching the end of the block and catching sight of Aleksy and his entourage gave his circumstances any cohesive meaning, in fact, it only served to baffle him further.

Rabbit's head tilted to one side like a confused dog's. "I know that guy. What's he doing here?"

Finn made a point of staying at the front of the group, unfurling his rainbow-patterned golf umbrella and raising it over his head like a beacon. It was obnoxious enough that he trusted everyone would have no trouble following it.

He stepped up beside Aleksy, holding his umbrella out to shelter his boyfriend. "Can we move a little faster?" he called to the group. "This weather won't hold. And the voice is gonna get impatient. Probably."

He wasn't sure.

The voice was new.

As was the whole Other People in the Otherworld thing.

The voice boomed again and Alg jumped again, this time more of a jolting shudder as he adjusted his glasses. A few more people joined them right before the voise, younger people of course (as everyone seemed younger than them).

The brit pointed upwards at the sky, "We're all going to same place. Straight down this road towards the park."

Algie motioned lightly around, speaking very calmly for the fact they were in some crumbly shadow dimension, "You're welcome to join up. Apparently Finn can find the way out of here-" He pointed at Finn at the head of the pack now and his massive rainbow umbrella.

Following the distant voices really seemed to be Kalisha's best bet, so that was what she did, carefully making her way down the empty streets. Empty, but yet she could not shake the feeling that she was being watched, very closely. And she did not like it. She did not like itat all.

Thankfully, she could see moving figures up ahead. "Hello ?" She called out, and made her way closer. She could barely made out the colors of a rather bright umbrella up ahead - a beacon to follow ? Well, it was the only thing she could think of at the time.

Hopefully there would be safety in numbers, and she caught up with the group as quickly as she could. What else could she do ?

The second time the voice had called out was as unpleasant as the first, after all.