But she doesn't seem to want to dwell. Out the door and into the open she goes, and Daniel follows a half-step behind as he steps right into a world he doesn't recognize.
It's so empty and chilling and utterly bereft of movement that it puts Daniel on the defensive immediately. The entire area is desolate, torn apart years before now, and completely abandoned.
Well, but no. Not completely. Daniel almost doesn't see the people in the distance because they're all standing deceptively still, practically indiscernible from the rest of the quiet panorama. Daniel doubts he would have noticed them at all if Melanie hadn't pointed them out to him in hushed undertone.
He jerks his head once in a thoroughly unsettled nod. The way she's moving now, with an eerily practiced fluidity, leads him to believe that this world has been pulled straight from her head. He shivers in a doomed effort to shake off how incredibly off-putting the whole area is. And closer inspection of the distant figures reveals something horribly...wrong about all of them as well. Yeah, he's going to trust Melanie with this one.
"Would we be safer inside?" he whispers, not taking his eyes off the collection of individuals a few blocks down.
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But she doesn't seem to want to dwell. Out the door and into the open she goes, and Daniel follows a half-step behind as he steps right into a world he doesn't recognize.
It's so empty and chilling and utterly bereft of movement that it puts Daniel on the defensive immediately. The entire area is desolate, torn apart years before now, and completely abandoned.
Well, but no. Not completely. Daniel almost doesn't see the people in the distance because they're all standing deceptively still, practically indiscernible from the rest of the quiet panorama. Daniel doubts he would have noticed them at all if Melanie hadn't pointed them out to him in hushed undertone.
He jerks his head once in a thoroughly unsettled nod. The way she's moving now, with an eerily practiced fluidity, leads him to believe that this world has been pulled straight from her head. He shivers in a doomed effort to shake off how incredibly off-putting the whole area is. And closer inspection of the distant figures reveals something horribly...wrong about all of them as well. Yeah, he's going to trust Melanie with this one.
"Would we be safer inside?" he whispers, not taking his eyes off the collection of individuals a few blocks down.