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Who: Everyone
When: Day 20, evening
Where: The train and surrounding terrain

[So after all the earlier excitement.... dramatic organ music starts to play through the cars. There's no obvious source. It's just... There? All around you for a while, before fading.

Of course before the music fades there's more things going on. A mist seeps up from the earth outside the train and within the train simply seems to form like it's produced by invisible fog machines. As the mist grows into a thick fog, you can hear eerie noises. Distant wolf howls, the screech of a fox that sounds like human screaming, owls hooting hauntingly, the leathery flap of bat wings, and other, less identifiable noises of the night, strange and otherworldly.

If you go out in it, breathe it in, the mist will chill you. Make you desire... Touch.

The need to hold another person is an almost growing compulsion, but it can be fought.

However things that are harder to avoid are the flowers, night blooming wisteria in white and purple seems to have grown from nowhere in the train cars, hanging down to brush the heads of passengers with sweet scented blossoms, and the floors of the train and ground around it have become endless beds of gently glowing moonflowers.

The only places the fog and flowers don't reach are team cabins.

Effects:

Mist:

Cold that cannot be dispelled without touch, a desire to touch others.

Wisteria:

Purple blossoms cause an empathetic bond with the next person you touch.

White blossoms cause arousal and a mild to powerful aphrodisiac effect.

Moonflowers:

Share memories or thoughts with the next person you touch.

By morning the mist and flowers will vanish.]

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... forget about it. Yours was much nicer.

Yes because saying forget about it has always worked.

What was mine?

You said you want to date someone like your mother.

[When did he say something like that....... Oh that conversation.]

Well, she was a good woman.

[ ... that is so disgustingly pure.]

I guess that makes sense.

And you, what happened then? What did I just see?

[ There's a long pause, and then an exhale. ]

I think they were robbers. The police never found them. [ there's a trace of bitterness there. ] She wasn't dead yet, so my power didn't affect her. Or that's my theory, anyway. Instead, the family dog woke up and defended me.

[Wow. That really sucks.]

...I see.

... are you weirded out by it?

[ say yes so they can go back to talking about Jusis' mom, ]

It's certainly strange. But if everything strange put me off I wouldn't get very far.

Well, there's time to change your mind.

Do you plan to?

... who knows? I'm supposed to be on my best behaviour.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means you'll have to like me from now on if that didn't creep you out.

[ he's just being a butt hole now. ]

Who said I liked you in the first place?

[He does, though.]

You definitely do, for some reason.

What makes you so sure?

You're still talking to me even though I hurt your friend awhile ago.

...At this point can anyone claim to be blameless?

I don't know. Have you stabbed someone lately?

Not recently, no.

[ he's almost disappointed... what happened to good behaviour ciabatta... ]

My other theory is you just wouldn't put up with me teasing you all of the time if you didn't.

[Why do I like bad birds.]

It's not like your teasing is particularly unpleasant.

[Like on a scale of one to what he grew up with it seems downright friendly?]

If you're trying to be disliked you could put some effort into it.

... maybe another time.

Tell me more about your memory. Where were you?

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