Event #7 Who? [TTW with Zara]

[Nancy Holmes]

OOC: this happenes after ‚here we go again‘

Nancy was exhausted. Her mind couldn’t keep up with everything that was going on. So many..disrational things. Should she even keep trying to process it? She was on the edge to just giving it up and accept everything that was happening.

„Arielle?“, she called for her friend. Maybe she would meet her again after changing rooms often enough... She looked through the empty room and sat down next to a wall, frustrated. With herself. With the situation. With everything.

Then, she heard a noise behind her, on the other side of the wall. She jumped to the side and then slammed against it. „HELLO? ARI?? is that you??“, she screamed against the wall.

[Zara Hamilton]

Zara wasn't usually the sort of person who needed a lot of time alone, or rather, was allowed a lot of time alone, but something about this place wore her out. Too many people in close quarters, always changing. She was happy, therefore, to have a moment to breathe, leaning herself against a wall, much like she had done when she had woken up and talked to Tara.

"Arielle?" A faint cry came from the other side of the wall. So there must be more people here, fantastic. Zara wasn't sure she was up for talking, but pressed her ear to the wall anyway, wondering who it would be this time.

Clearly, whoever it was had heard her scuffling, because they called to her, "HELLO? ARI?? Is that you??"

Sighing to herself, she supposed she should dignify them with an answer.

"No, Zara, if you know who that is. I don't think an Ari or whoever is round here."

The voice from the other side sounded familiar, but she couldn't quite place it.

[Nancy Holmes]

"No, Zara, if you know who that is. I don't think an Ari or whoever is round here."

"Zara?", she repeated. "Zara Hamilton?", she asked further. What the hell was an ex-student doing here? Why..? Why had she been at the school again in the first place? Also, she said Arielle was nowhere near. Goddamn it, where was she? Nancy was getting anxious. Well, even more anxious than she already was.

Oh, she should probably tell her who she was. "It's Nancy, Nancy Holmes!", she said against the wall. She could hear her surprisingly well from the other side, even if she did not scream. No wonder those thin walls didn't stand a chance against an earthquake...

"What are you doing here if I may ask? I mean... You must've been in the school during the earthquake, right? Why? And what have you witnessed here so far? Who have you seen?", she paused for a moment. "Sorry, I know I'm asking a lot but this place... it's ... I just want to go home.... so if you have any kind of information.... So, as far  as I know, a lot of people have died already and nobody knows how to get out of this place and with this weird ghost or whatever lingering around here....."

[Zara Hamilton]

"Zara? Zara Hamilton?"

"Uh, yeah, okay I guess you do know me..." When the mysterious voice said her name, Zara almost hit herself. Of course it was Nancy! She'd tutored her a few years ago, the girl was smart. Why were all her tutees in this hellhole, though?

"What are you doing here if I may ask? I mean... You must've been in the school during the earthquake, right? Why?"

"Well, my brother still goes here. I was picking him up from detention, and the next thing I know I've woken up in a horror movie on crack. And he's nowhere to be seen, so absolutely fucking fantastic!"

She groaned. She couldn't believe she was actually missing the little twerp, considering how much she wanted to get away from him when she was at home. Zara supposed life had an odd way of doing stuff like that, making you lose the one thing you didn't even realise you'd miss.

As she listened to Nancy speak, she felt dread creep into the pit of her stomach. So they all seemed to know about the death in this place. Or had heard of it, anyway. 

"Well, ghosts don't exist, but I have heard of some murderer torturing and killing people and blackmailing people to do the same. But I haven't seen anything. Only weird thing is, Alessia has amnesia and, well..." she didn't want to sound cocky or accuse anyone of anything, but... "She's been a bit weird, shall we say."

She paused for a moment.

"What about you? Seen anything? Heard anything? Know who the murderer is?"

[Nancy Holmes]

"Well, my brother still goes here. I was picking him up from detention, and the next thing I know I've woken up in a horror movie on crack. And he's nowhere to be seen, so absolutely fucking fantastic!"
"Ohhh", she replied and nodded to herself. "But he isn't here too, is he? I at least haven't seen him..." She didn't want to alarm her unnecessarily, but he was probably here too. No matter where people have been in the school, they all had ended up in this nightmare. Well... as far as she knew anyways. But as long as she didn't know for 100%, she would stay quiet. Hope was a rare thing in here and she didn't want to bother Zara even more.

"Believe me, if you had seen what I saw, you would believe in ghosts. This isn't just any human murderer, it's a fucking THING, it's ... it uses telepathy and all these things and... It's everywhere...", she said, fear clearly in her her voice.

"...But I haven't seen anything. Only weird thing is, Alessia has amnesia and, well...She's been a bit weird, shall we say."
Who the fuck was Alessia? "Uh... I don't know who that is, but.... is that something that only happened since she was in here? Because... If so, I'm sure this thing is the cause for that. It can.... It plays with your mind.....It did play with mine, so... I know."