outdistanced | turbo heaven 🌼 firefly

I was wondering if there were any in the garden.

[ he takes a deep breath, a little shaky. ]

...I really never thought it would be him.

I really thought he'd be here with us the whole time...

[ Maybe that was too optimistic. ]

Yeah. So did I.

We should've known better, huh.

[ this place always finds ways to hurt them all. ]

It's not wrong to hope.

[She sighs.]

But it does mean it'll hurt if it happens.

[ he thinks it might be a little wrong, if it hurts this badly. ]

I don't know how we're supposed to deal with this. Every week, over and over, and we still don't know how to make it stop. I don't want us all to keep losing people.

I don't want it to keep happening either. I'm tired of losing people- they didn't deserve to die again. The angels are still looking for leads...

We're four weeks in to this experience, and there's only four more weeks left.

As for how to deal with it... We just have to keep going, as difficult as it might be.

[ he winces. ]

We're running out of time. It sounded like they've only figured out a few things so far, but not enough to fix this whole thing.

...I just hate the idea of having to wait for someone to die every week.

[ She sighs. ]

It can take time to find a source. And then, once it's found, it takes more time to properly contain the problem. [ She doesn't believe in an inescapable destiny, but she does miss the clarity of a script. ]

I don't think anybody likes the cycle we're in.

Time we don't have if there's only four weeks left and people are still dying.

I don't even know what we can do to help. I've tried looking around, but I haven't found anything useful about this place yet. I don't even know exactly what all those emojis mean.

[Maybe the deaths will stop by week 7.]

I haven't really found much either. We can try again next week.

Of those things... We can try to puzzle out what the emojis mean right now. What have you gathered so far?

Uh...

[ looks at it again... ]

No cell service. [ pointing at this one 📵 then two lines below it. ] Something about a computer works? I was wondering if that was the computer in the basement, but [ pauses ] Zhongli I tried it this week and didn't really get anything from it.

You didn't? That's a shame...

We know the cell phones don't work when we get locked in. So... Hmm, I wonder if that means the computer in the basement works during that hour?

These three eyes, the hand and tree... Maybe we need to check the forest by looking very closely?

Nothing worthwhile, anyway.

We'd have to ask if someone was stuck there and gave it a shot, but I don't know if anyone stayed there.

[ why would they, it's creepy as hell. ]

...I'm really hoping the eyes don't have something to do with Eupha. [ like. that sounds bad and eupha is good. a friend. ] But I guess we can always look at the woods tomorrow? Though they said those two were at the fairgrounds and the diner...

Kind of like how we looked around last week? [It was just very normal.]

We could try next week. [She does think it's very creepy in there.]

I hope so too. So let's keep an open mind.

The last few times they went through a few places, didn't they? Charlie's body was at the beach, but she was at the arcade too.

Not quite the same. There was some weird stuff, but nothing I'd think is relevant... except maybe the apples.

[ though his mouth twists with distaste just thinking about that. ]

Yeah, that's true. And maybe someone will have seen something again, like with Waner.

[ that one that saw the shadows in the courtyard and brought in the chain. ]

Huh? What about the apples?

[She wonders.]

We'll be able to ask more tomorrow. ... I woke up with a bruise on my left side, but I don't know how relevant that is right now.

He typed in "apples" and the screen said "Want one?" with a smiley face. Like it was taunting us.

You... wait? [ squints. ] Did anyone else where you were staying? Do you know?

That's... Weird. Is the computer linked with what's going on here every week? Why would it be programmed like that?

I don't know. I was alone with Zhongli at the Mystery Shack. [Can't exactly ask him now.]

I have no idea. None of the other words we tried had any effect, and he had a whole list of things related to what's going on in this place.

[ oh but that's. not great, is it. ]

...They're going to think it's suspicious.

He was always so prepared.

[SIGHS]

I know. I can't really do anything about it.

Seems like he's really seen everything.

[ girl he is so worried about you. ]

I guess you'd just have to be up front about it, like we were when we all woke up sore in the market.

[Frowns.]

... I guess that is better than trying to hide it.

...I get why you'd want to. But they'll be more suspicious if you do and they find it later, especially after what happened before.

[Yes, of course, her murder hands.]

Alright. I'll bring the bruising up when it starts.

[MAN...]

[ he can tell she's reluctant, and for good reason. ]

...We still have some things that should help, if we use them right. It may not come down to you at all.

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