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At least Jeremiah's umbrella was not the only bright colored one (still, it was garish and fiery and so many little ghost plush things hanging from it) but it was easy enough to follow Finn and Aleksy. Especially considering that there was possibly a better grasp of the situation than what he little pieces he had.

When Algie jumped at the voice, a steadying hand went around his bicep again. The detective never jumped - ever - but the lingering sensation of too much sweet did not fade away. Almost like the books they had opened up.

The detective was, for the moment, quiet and following the group. They were closer by the moment and Jeremiah was definitely on high alert for anything out of the ordinary.

... more out of the ordinary than things already were anyway.

"So hey," Autumn called up to one of the self-decided leaders, frowning a bit. "While we're walking, I got a question. Why us?"

With her free hand, Autumn gestured to herself and to Chris, then nodded at some of the others walking with them.

"I'm a blogger wannabe, he's a teacher in training... I mean s**t, I just moved here. Maybe like, a month ago. I'm assuming this isn't the norm, anyway, or my post guy would've met me for my bath bombs." At the very least, Autumn HOPED the mailman wasn't here. He was a nice guy! He hadn't dropped any of her boxes or anything, and always told her she looked nice. Good way to get on Autumn's good side.

"And like... are we stuck here now? In Crazy Ashdown and Regular Ashdown? Or can we up our s**t and get outta here? No offense, it feels like one of you are gonna drop the bomb of 'this town needs us you can't leave' or some s**t like that."

Alexis kept running even when the voice sounded like a knell, but they had to stop - breathe - and gag on the overripe marshmallow taste - and fine. Whatever it was, it wanted them to go to the park? Then they'd join the miniature parade of people, lead by a man with a rainbow umbrella who seemed to know where he was going. (Why did he own a rainbow umbrella. Why did he own a rainbow anything. People these days.) Their palms were scraped and bleeding, a little bit, from taking the corners too hard -- but that kept them grounded and focused.

...breathe. Interact. People are there, people will not hurt you, people are probably just as lost as you are.

They fell into step at the back of the motley -- cheeks flushed, breathing hard, wiping their scraped palms on their jacket -- and glanced around at anyone of interest.

When she received the look- a familiar face from the tea shop- Autumn offered a cautious wave to Leila, and a bit of a laugh at her commentary.

"Man, all I'm saying with this appealing s**t is that Lucifer spent forty days offering a dying man food and water in the desert. I'm gonna trust these guys for now, but if I'm killed by Ben and Jerry's, I'll be pissed." Autumn paused.

"Don't go for the Moose Tracks. Go for Boom Chocolata. That's the good s**t, I'm telling you. Has this weird cookie-core and everything."

"I'm telling you, if the devil offered me unlimited makeup and tea? Ballgame. I'd be like s**t yeah, let me spread your nasty-a** gospel. Hail Satan and all that nonsense," she laughed, a bit of the tension melting out of her shoulders with the presence of someone she knew.

"Seriously though. Tea? Makeup? More expensive than drugs. I splurged on a Lapsang from a private grower, and man oh man. I probably put myself in debt, but I tasted paradise for a little bit." A wistful sigh here, in memory of that heavenly black tea.

"Then again, though, we probably shouldn't be giving this place... thing... any ideas."

Overwhelmed by the mouthful of syrupy sweetness that had accompanied that last directive, Rabbit spent a moment spitting the taste out of his mouth rather than answering his reluctant companion. There were plenty of others here now who could surely give her better information than he could anyway.

Stiffly striding a couple of steps back the way they had come, he shouted, "I CAME AND I SAW, WHAT NOW ******** disembodied piece of s**t," at nobody, taking a few more seconds to loosen his fists before turning back to the others. As he pulled his hood back into place from where it had slipped, Rabbit caught sight of Alexis as well. Talk about someone he had never expected to see again.

Jeremiah's lips twitched at Autumn's outburst, as well as the conversation that turned into a discussion about tea. That had him glancing over to Algie a moment, clearly amused even given the circumstances. He had no answer himself as to why anyone else was there, not anyone besides Zac (asking questions) and himself (deals with Sunny)

There was a moment when he caught sight of someone who looked vaguely familiar (probation perhaps). Blue eyes flicked to Alexis and their bleeding palms. "Zac, you still have some of that bandaging?" he asked, before he was holding a hand out for it while the young man pulled it from his bag.

A moment later he was going over to Alexis and offering it out. "Don't have anything to clean it up with besides this, but it's something." Jeremiah had no desire to see anyone else bleeding. He glanced over to Asiya and gave her a reassuring look.

"I'm sure we'll find out what is on it's mind once we reach the forest. Hopefully without any more flavor voices." The detective made a face as he said that, managing to not roll his eyes, as he moved to go fall back into step next to Algie. The man would not be that far away from him or Zac.

He did not bother to mention to the young man who shouted that sometimes ... sometimes you did not want to say now what to voices.