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[Hope gets the device working after a moment. She's not really sure what to say so.....have a small awkward laugh...]

So .....I'm not dead.

I'm pretty sure I died there but ....I'm not dead? Maybe I just suck at dying. First radiation now exposure. Though at least there I woke up in a medbay with answers and not a morgue and....

....and I'm rambling but ....uh yeah. I think I missed a few days there being ....dead and all but I guess I'm back?

[Small pause]

Okay no really how am I back? If anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear them. This is freaking me out a little. I was ready to die there. I accepted it...and suddenly I'm back here.

[Again. Why does she keep coming back and why does she have the feeling that she's forgetting something really important?]

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[Clayton remains hopeful. For every name that shows up on the obituary, he thinks about how each of them could be another mistake, like his, and how they could all come crawling out of the woodwork when he checks the network in the morning. Hope is one of them--particularly as a name that he's seen himself talk with comfortably, even if he doesn't remember doing it. She's vibrant and young and never deserved a death out in the frozen wasteland of Norfinbury.]

[Today, it seems he was right to stay hopeful.]

[Clayton's doing a very good job of staying serious in spite of how relieved he is.] I know it ain't the first thing you wanna talk about right now, I'm sure, but I need you to tell me everything you can remember. We can sort this out.

Are you quite certain you didn't hallucinate the experience?

Clayton, you're alive too?

[She died before he came back so this is news. But she's happy at that.]

Everything I remember about dying or after that?

The dying bit? Well I can't say for certain but I've been pretty close to death before and it certainly felt like it. Also I know I didn't hallucinate waking up in a morgue in a church I've never seen before.

[How many more people are going to join the dead/almost died club, jfc.]

What was the manner of your supposed death?

[He hadn't recognized her by her name in the obituary. To learn that not one, but two of the names had been people he'd spoken to before...]

Perhaps you did not die. I know that I have come very near death only to be rescued at the last moment. But it...seems as if our mysterious hosts have been lying to us. [@ADMIN always did use "we". He assumes the ID represents more than one person.] But only about some deaths...someone else did find a body, after all...

[He shakes his head, not that she gets anything beyond hearing the rustling of his cloak's hood it causes.]

I don't understand this at all.

[Why does this keep happening?

Al feels so conflicted when he hears her voice and the explanation of what happened. There's definite relief there, even some traitorous wiggles of hope for a long-buried mother, but mostly it's sorrow and revulsion.

This cannot be allowed to continue, not even if it gave a second chance to people who deserved one. Death can't be overcome, and it's against the laws of nature to try, he understands that now.]

Are you... are you sure you died? Maybe you just passed out?

Exposure to the elements. Or freezing.

You know at this point I'd really like that to be the case. It would make a lot more sense.

I don't know though. All I know is that I pretty much resigned myself to death at a certain point there and then I woke up in a morgue.

I don't know.

[She sighs.]

It was confusing and I at least felt like I was dying. But ...I've felt like that before and survived so maybe?

Like I said. I thought I was dying, I was ready to die again. I made my peace with it and then I woke up in a morgue with no one around to give me answers.

[ Even after the screaming of the night before, Link had taken to keeping the 'Gossip Phone' open at all times. Remembering that there were people here with him, even if he hadn't come across them yet, was an important thing to focus on.

Still, he's tired and hungry, and probably not really thinking right. He keeps the phone gripped in one hand as he digs through rubble with his other. ]

Might've been near a fairy.

[ The sound of bricks being shoved aside can be heard as he asks the question.

It'd be good to find fairies in this place, even if they weren't likely to be Navi. ]

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[Dying and coming back Clementine can believe. Dying, coming back and still being human... with no canibalistic urges? That she's having trouble with.]

do you FEEL the same

[And, unfortunately, the fact that she woke up in a morgue means absolutely nothing to Enoch. He doesn't even know what a morgue is. Though he can sort of make a guess by etymology since they're speaking a defined language and not just nebulously translated, and he can infer it has something to do with death. He still doesn't think that really proves anything, except that she was moved before she woke up.

Actually, something is different about her, as far as he can tell...]

Does anything seem...wrong? The two who have spoken so far have lost something - one his memory, and one his sight.

[There's a morgue here?

Just the knowledge of that makes him feel cold inside, and it's harder and harder to try and convince himself that she only passed out and somehow was saved.]

It... it could be a trick, they could have put you there specifically to make you think that you'd died.

....A fairy?

[From ....fairy tales? She wasn't aware they brought people back to life.]

I do. I mean I feel like myself. Even if I didn't die though I don't know why I don't have any symptoms from being out in the cold for so long.

There was one in the church I woke up in.

....Yeah they could have. I don't know why though. And I should be showing some more signs of being left in the cold for so long.

Wrong....I.

[She pauses and frowns because yeah...]

I...can't remember ...something? I don't know. I feel like I'm missing something I should know. Something important.

[Her memories of her father are gone and while she doesn't know this it leaves a lot of holes in her memories.]

[Specific memories now. He has to wonder how, in addition to why...]

The people who return have lost something. Is our... [he hesitates to use the term for a moment, his voice soft with an edge betraying a hint of fear and anger.] ..."babysitter" responsible for this?

...I hope it was a trick.

[His voice is soft and troubled, though he doesn't explain why his hope is so strong. It's simply against everything inside him to agree with resurrection now, no matter how much it seems to have been perfected here.

He takes a deep breath, useless really since he has no actual lungs, but it does serve to give him a little more calm and the ability to focus on something else.]

Was there anything in the church?

"Overseer" seems like a better term.

[She has hatred attached to that word. She remembers that well enough.]

They'd be my first guess. Maybe it's a punishment or maybe they just like messing with our heads.

[She sighs.]

Maybe this is all just an experiment to them.

That would be nice. I'd rather not die just yet.

[She's already been ready to die twice in one life, she feels that it's twice too many.]

Nothing of significance. Just an empty church.

Did you recognise the architectural style? Or even the religion it might have represented?

[He knows this is a long shot, but if they can establish the religion, it might give them more clues as to where this is and who lived here.]

Maybe pre-war christian? It was smallish but there looked like saints in the windows.

And I don't know anything about pre-war architectural styles.

Are you still nearby? Do you think you could take some pictures and share them with everyone?

I know it might seem kind of trivial, but if we can pin down anything familiar and identify it, it could help us work out where exactly we are and who was here before us.

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