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[For those that know Seth, he's looking much better than he has for months. Pulled together, all sharp creases and straight lines. There's no dark circles under his eyes and he doesn't seem to have a glass in front of him. At least for now.

He also looks bitterly amused.]

A guy goes out into the woods for one freaking week to try and get his head on straight and you all go nuts. Nice to see that much as some things change, everything else just remains the same.

With a week or so of sobering up and learning my paranoia apparently has jackshit to do with my diet of scotch and whiskey, I had a thought that came to me and if I have to live with these thoughts, so do the rest of you.

How do we know that everyone that vanishes goes home? I mean, what if some of those that are positive about serial killers and criminals in our midst... [Hello, pot? This is the kettle.] ... what if they're right and someone's bumping people off and we just assume they're being sent home like so many others?

After that thought, not sure if sobriety will pay off but we'll see how long it lasts.

{Locked to Chloe}

How are you?

{Locked to Maggie}

Where are you? Are you okay?

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Well shit. I know family like that. Which sucks. Royally.

[Definitely nothing anyone should face.]

Shit. Soon as you mentioned a cannibal, I knew it to be Evelyn. She mentioned once about dealing with some things here that weren't events.

She never got a chance to figure out what to do because then he was gone. If someone like that has come back since, I haven't heard anything about it. Should everyone be responsible for warning others about all the possible dangers of their world?

[ It's also conflicting. Jane was a terrorist, or at least she had been. What would someone from her past say about her? If they showed up here and she couldn't remember them anyway thanks to her memory wipe? Then what? ]

So there's precedent that this place could bring someone like that here. Isn't that cheerful?

Damned if I know. I've talked about mine with a few, but that's the big heavies, you know? There's what? Like hundreds of active serial killers at any given time or some shit? How would we even know?

[Not that he doesn't take every chance to downplay his own criminal element and the things he's done. Or protect Richie's reputation from what his brother did. ]

And with timelines so different, someone who...might have done terrible things at one point in their life could be completely changed now. But bring someone in from their past who only knows them as that person, then what?

[ That's her second big concern. ]

You have someone here who hasn't done anything wrong at all, but someone from home trying to convince us we're dealing with a terrible person.

But where do you lay down that line? I mean, do we want to know the past in case? Never know it until they do something shitty here?

Has to be somewhere in between, right? Not that I have a clue how you'd measure that but still. And I'm not talking shitty and not meaning like has fun killing people and shit like that.