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[Winter was now over and spring had just started. Minato kind of missed the snow, but at least the weather was cool and comfortable instead of being too cold. For a change of pace as he wandered outside, now that the space event was over, he decided to head to the Checkerboard Hills. He hadn't been there often. It was time to check it out again.

That is, if checking it out meant doing a once-over on the checkered patterns from dark to light, then ending up laying in one of the darker square patches, his comm device off to the side as he looked up at the sky.

It's spring here and spring at home. School would be starting again, if he were there and time progressed.

Were these questions even fair? Did he have too much time on his hands, playing around with or thinking about 'what if' in a place that may make him forget his existence here at all?]

..... Would you rather be dead at home or alive here?

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[Minato shook his head. He hadn't heard of the term before, he didn't think.]

No, but I'd like to hear about it, if it's okay.

They're incarnations of Lamia, an ancient queen who was said to have been cursed by the gods. They're immortal and eternally youthful, but to stay that way, they have to drink the blood of virgins.

[ she shook her head at herself, repressing a mirthless laugh. ] Sounds pretty out there, doesn't it?

[Minato shook his head. It was her story. Anyone's story was their own and he didn't have any reason to judge.]

Are you one of the incarnations?

[If he could venture to ask.]

[ !!! she looked alarmed for a second, then laughs, shaking her head. ]

Oh God, no. I'm not a Lamiae. [ one day she'll be. if she returns home, she'll have the misfortune of ending up just like the women who damned her. ] But the teachers at my school were.

[Minato smiled out of relief too. He was glad that she was candid with him about it.] But again he'd still worry since people around her were those incarnations.

You've tried running away or moving?

[He had assumed so. Those Lamiae didn't sound all that pleasant, and all of a sudden she had teachers who were, so she must have thought to try and get away.]

We had just moved there. My dad had a book deal, and after my mother died, he wanted to be closer to the publishing offices to get more done.

His publisher is one of them. So is the school nurse, who he started dating. They were everywhere, and nobody believed me.

I would have.

[He would have believed her. From what he could tell, she was straightforward and honest, definitely not the lying type.]

How or why did they all gather there?

I know you would have.

[ a lot of the people she's grown close to here would've, and that's a small comfort. knowing that there are people somewhere out there who would've listened helps. ]

I don't know how, but as for the why— [ a breath, ] In order for them to stay immortal and eternally youthful, they had to drink the blood of virgins. As far as I could tell, the school was a just a cover. A way of easily obtaining what they needed to survive. They made the deaths look like suicides.

[A school would be a good place to find people like that. Schools seemed to be a place where a lot of weird things happened.]

How did you find out about all of this?

Chance, mostly.

[ ... ]

Well, kind of chance. I also sort of... see things. Things that aren't there or haven't happened yet. Sometimes things that have already happened.

Is that something you can do or is it up by chance too?

[Seeing things sounded like it would be a useful skill but then also kind of detrimental too if she couldn't control it.]

Mostly chance. I can't really control it.

[That could be problematic, but it did have its advantages. Somehow.]

Sometimes you get lucky and see things right when you need it?

[ precisely. problematic, but also advantageous. ]

I do. I probably wouldn't be alive if I didn't see the lamiae coming that way.

And there isn't any way to practice that skill?

[He wished, anyway. If she could control it, that would be ideal. If he could worry more about her, then he was doing that right about now.]

I'm not sure there is. I mean, I was kind of talking to a friend about it, but she's not here anymore...

[ bonnie got it, and bonnie saw things sometimes, too. but who else in this place had abilities like hers and was trustworthy enough to try and teach her how to hone them? ]

[Minato still wished though. Perhaps she could practice here and then take that information home with her.]

I'm sorry. When you have them, you black out or are you aware of what's happening around you?

[If he ever caught her having them and she couldn't defend herself, then he would want to be there to help her.]

When I'm awake, I'm aware of my surroundings. The people and things I see just sort of show up alongside them or sort of overlayed onto everything, if that makes sense. Sometimes scenery shifts, but I know that it's shifted and that that's not somewhere I'm supposed to be.

I think I get it. It doesn't hurt when you have them?

[He hoped not. From what he's read and heard from all sorts of media is that whenever someone has visions, they get a little disoriented or it hurts during or after it's over.]

[ she shakes her head. ]

No. They don't hurt, they just kind of startle me. [ and scare the crap out of her, depending. ]

[Definitely better than getting hurt, at least.]

If there's anything you want me to help you with, I'll do what I can.

Thanks, Minato. I'll keep that in mind.

[ :) ]

You're welcome. Things'll be okay.

[He hoped so. He thought so. They'd be okay.]

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