The Hidden Mall: Circles 🔘

[aldersprig]

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“One minute.  Just one minute, and then we can run.”  She was being ridiculous, and she knew it.  No, she was being suicidal.  But she had to know.

She pulled the bag from the skeletal hand and passed it to her Liv, who took it as it it was on fire, holding it with two fingers by the end of a strap.  Then she pushed aside a bunch of the vines in one rough shove.

The vines wanted to crawl back in, pulling back around the body, pulling back around Abby, but she grabbed what she was looking for - the chain of the necklace around the corpse’s neck - and pulled hard.

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Comments

[chanter1944]

Oh! *Two* amulets? Abby, what are you building?

[aldersprig]

Good question! Something, all right.

[sauergeek]

I suspect they've found their way into a parallel of the first back-hall mall they found. Now if only they can stay with the right person opening doors. (Have they found anywhere recently that would let them find something to leash Liv-1? It'd probably be for the best...)

I'm glad that Abby managed to escape the vines that got one of her counterparts, but now she has that backpack and a second amulet. The first one hasn't been of terribly obviously much use yet, and the new one didn't stop another Abby from dying. Are they really good for anything?

I want to know what's in the second backpack, and how it compares to the one this Abby is carrying.

Liv-1 might be improving. Still not sure: she ran off, but stopped. Maybe? I hope?