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Coming Back For A Visit

    | R O O M   F O R T Y |

The group of entities sat at the dinner table, only the sounds of the wind and Figure's occasional discontented roars filling the room. Seek, who seemed more isolated than usual, had insisted that everyone ate in silence. None of the others knew why. What they did know was that The Eyes weren't going to return anytime soon.

Screech sighed and picked at his dinner. "Eggs again?" he whined. "Why can't I help make dinner?"

"Hey, you've been banned from the kitchen, remember?" Halt said icily, pointing her fork at him. Screech poked out his tongue and continued pushing every bit of egg around into the side of his plate. Figure devoured the eggs with no mercy and then laid back, patting its stomach. Timothy pounced on Figure's head and it thrashed around, trying to get rid of it. The effort caused the chair it was on to break, and it ended up on the floor with Timothy still clinging to the creature's head. Halt, Ambush and Screech managed to hide smiles. Rush, on the other hand, stayed quiet and kept staring at the floor. Halt elbowed him. "Hey, what are you all mopey for?"

"I'm full." Rush said quietly, and removed himself from the table. Halt narrowed her eyes into slits and shoved another spoonful of egg into her mouth, before continuing to stare in suspicion at where Rush had been sitting. Of course Rush was immature and messy, but he wasn't so... secluded. 

     | R O O M     F O R T Y     F I V E |

Sitting in her hallway, Halt flipped through a few books that she'd snatched from the library next door. That's what she usually did -- apart from looking after the younger entities, of course. She noticed the lights in the room flicker slightly and she sighed, dropping the book she was holding on her couch. "Yeah, what is it?"

"Halt?" came a feeble voice from the doorway. Rush poked his head into the room and then dragged himself into the room with his smoke trailing behind him. "Can I talk to you?" Halt nodded slowly, not sure what to say. Rush looked down and then said quietly, "I made The Eyes leave."

"WHAT." Halt jumped up in a flash, and her expression melted into a scowl. "What. Did. You. DO."

"It was an accident, I promise!" Rush cried, upset. "I got told to!"

"By who, you little freak?!"

"I don't know!" Rush started to cry and Halt sighed, sitting down heavily on the couch. "Ugh, the least you could do is tell me what they look like."

"I don't know that either."

"Then what do you know, then?!" Halt yelled, and went stomping out into the next room. "Follow me. We're going to tell Seek."

      | R O O M    S I X T Y    T W O |

"So... a voice in you head told you to direct The Eyes to the reception?" Seek said, rather suspiciously, while Rush nodded like he'd just been told he wasn't going to win any sort of game for the rest of his life. "...Yeah."

Seek groaned. "Tssk. You both annoy me sometimes." He looked outside at the rain pouring down and then started flicking the window latch open and shut in a constant rythm. "Do you know if this 'voice' you speak of may have hinted to any place it may have taken The Eyes?"

Rush shook his face. "No."

"Then we're back at square one," Seek flicked the latch again. "What if they're in trouble?"

Halt shrugged. "If I don't know where they are, I can't teleport to them." She looked around and then laid her eyes on a trashcan in the corner of the room. "Wait, what's that?" she plucked a bloody towel out of the trashcan and Seek blanched. "That--that's--"

"Why does it smell like human blood?" Halt sniffed the towel and threw it on the floor. "Blech. Where'd you even get this from?" Seek faltered. "There were... humans... in the hotel." He held his breath waiting for Halt and Rush to panic, but Halt just rolled her eyes. "Is that really it? Did you kill them?"

Seek shook his head. "I think The Eyes did it. Jack found the bodies at the reception." Rush gasped. "What?"

"Wait." Seek stopped flicking the latch, realization dawning. "Where did I dump those bodies again?"

He ran out followed by Halt and Rush, running into the next few rooms and almost crashing into Screech. "Hey!" Screech squawked, flying after them, "Watch it!"

      | R O O M      F O R T Y     O N E |

Seek ran to one of the windows and looked outside, but there was nothing but grass below. "Where are they, where are they?" Halt and Rush stopped at the doorway, panting as Seek kept looking outside. "I swear on my eye I dropped them out here."

"Psst."

"Maybe you didn't drop them out here?" said Halt, looking outside. "Or maybe someone picked them up?" She shook her head suddenly after that remark. "Wait, we can't leave." "Of course we can't. We'd die," Screech said, popping into view and making everyone jump. Seek slammed his head on a wall. "But then who might have picked them up?" Rush looked at the window, an idea forming. "Maybe that little entity I told Halt about did it?"

"What, the window guy?" Halt asked, "Well, after everything's that going on right now, with The Eyes committing murder to this weird new voice that's come up, I won't not believe it."

There was a sudden silence that fell over the room, like something had popped into existence that hadn't been there before. The strange feeling of a new presence.

"Anyone else feel like we're being watched?" asked Halt, shivering. "It's freaking me out."

Screech nodded. "I swear I'm not joking this time."

A red light suddenly flashed throughout the room and then the entities were met with a large being standing tall before them. "Hello."

Seek's eye widened. "Glitch...?"

She nodded. "Came back for a visit."

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And now, a short message from the Guiding Light.

A reunion indeed.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Wow, we're almost at 1K!! Thank you all so much for reading. I'm sorry for all the shorter chapters, but I'm very busy between sport, school, updating my other stories and my Youtube channel. I hope you've enjoyed the story so far! :)