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Steady, light footsteps were heard before a woman's figure appeared through the fog. Selan's eyes spotted Trixie first, and she knelt down beside the girl and tried to pull her up into a sitting position.

"Trixie, there there, it's okay. You're safe now, we're here..." she whispered, trying to soothe whatever terrors Trixie was forced to suffer through.

Estelle and Marcus appeared a moment later, and Estelle quickly dashed over to drop to her knees and hug Trixie tightly. "Trixie! Selan! Are you alright?" Estelle gave Selan a wary glance, a look she interpreted as pity. [I]Does she know?[/I] Selan would take no offense if she did; she knew Estelle's capacity for compassion.

"Don't worry about me, worry about Trixie," Selan said, not taking her eyes off of the girl, who was clearly traumatized by something. The songstress looked completely exhausted, and her eyes were red. "This isn't the first time I've been haunted by my memories. But it seems like whoever was behind this was able to make the 'visions' more... [i]potent[/i]."

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Lisette was woken up by her beloved capybara sniffing at her face. She looked at Kapi blankly, unsure of how to react, but instantly she had him in a tight embrace, hugging him like a teddy bear. Kapi relaxed in his owner's arms as well, and the two rejoiced in the knowledge that the other was okay.

Kapi clung to her back as Lisette wandered through the foggy streets. She never liked being in dark places, and it didn't help that there was no one in sight as far as she could see (which wasn't very far at all). But she knew that the nightmare she had was just that, a nightmare. None of it happened, and there was no way the others would treat her that way. But even knowing that, she still felt some lingering fright, and needed to know that the others were okay.

So when she happened upon Moira and Syed, the only thing she could do was call their names and run up and awkwardly hug Moira the way a child would hug a relative they'd never met. Likewise, Kapi sprung off of Lisette to cling to the side of Syed's head.

"I'm so glad to see both of you!" she said, her voice strained as she tried to be tough and not cry. "Are the others nearby too?"