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[doc_holi]

[Doctor Holiday appears on the screen in the lounge of her apartment complex (Building 2, if you must know) and she looks rather worried. Every now and then, her eyes will glance off screen.]

I know this sounds ridiculous, especially for the time of year, but have any of you-?

[She turns around quickly, before slowly looking back to the screen.]

I think I'm just really paranoid or... someone's trying to prank me? I don't know, I just-

[She turns again... Then quickly glances back to the screen.]

Am I the only one seeing things?

[Holiday realizes how crazy she seems in that moment...]

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[heirrant]

[Ataru's first thought is that The Ninja is starting early and picked a victim they both happened to know- but no. He's already focused his efforts elsewhere, and Holiday looks so rattled...

... and maybe she's not the only one seeing things. He's been putting the blips and shapes in the periphery of his vision down to a lack of sleep, stress, some sort of early winter bug, but if he's not the only one there could be more to it.

He frowns a little into the camera, and when he speaks there's concern in his usually even questioning.]

What sort of things do you mean?

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[doc_holi]

I- I don't know. It's not really... anything, it's just things at the edge of my vision. Just... shadows or something.

At the expense of sounding completely insane... I wasn't going to mention anything, but... there seems to be more of them now. Or more frequent.

Maybe I should go to the hospital.

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[heirrant]

[There's a small pause.] ... I couldn't have put it better myself. [He meets her eyes, more searching now than before.] I've been seeing shadows and shapes out the corner of my eye for a couple of days now- I had put it down to working too hard or not eating right, but if it's affecting more than just us it could be a citywide problem.

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[doc_holi]

[Citywide problem.... Ugh.]

You think the natives already know?

[At least she's happy to know that she doesn't have to check herself into the mental ward now.]

[video] arghh sorry for the delay!

[heirrant]

[He considers the question for a moment; the silence seems little more than a breaker for the tide of his own uncertainty.]

... if they do, they're keeping it very quiet. The woman who addressed the network recently- Irene?- didn't mention it at all.

[video] dude, no, you're fine. I'm super slow XD

[doc_holi]

You would think they would address something affecting this many people. Then again...

Perhaps we're just on our own, then.

[heirrant]

[wryly] It wouldn't be the first time, would it? [He pauses, then relents. A little.] They may simply not know what's happening, if they aren't the ones being affected- though I'd still sooner believe that they were hiding something. Have any other outsiders you've spoken to experienced the same thing?

[doc_holi]

I do think they are hiding something, but perhaps they're keeping quiet because they want to provide us with proper answers first... I hope.

Some have, yes.

[heirrant]

I think I'd prefer to know that something is wrong right away and save the explanations for later at this point. [There's a beat, and then Ataru finds himself giving a small, slightly resigned sigh, rubbing his forehead.] Hopefully this won't develop too much further than this. It's... making me paranoid.

[doc_holi]

Agreed.

In my experience, things always get worse before they get better... Hopefully, I'm very wrong.