Various rooftops around town, Wednesday afternoon

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae was exhausted. She had a pounding headache. She was not, however, slowly mutating into a -- something -- and the dorms had people who were mutating into things, so she was out and about, trying to move through the tired and headache and distract herself from the very creepy illness that seemed to coincide with the very creepy dreams she kept having this week.

The fact that she kept half expecting to run into giant glowing fish monsters or possibly a ghostly band was putting a damper on her "run the feelings away" plan, but Mae was nothing if not stubborn. As she hopped tiredly from window sill to roof top to power line to rooftop, she was keeping a paranoid eye on the various water sources around town -- including, you know, the ocean surrounding the whole damn place. It didn't seem to be glowing, which was nice, but she was still suspicious. It was definitely large enough to house a giant evil squid monster, after all.

Which would be how she was entirely unprepared when a glowing, rabid chipmunk with mange suddenly attacked, from an otherwise perfectly innocent looking chimney.

She managed to flail her way out from under it and drop kick it off the roof in fairly short order, but not before it had scratched the hell out of her shirt. She checked herself over hurriedly for drawn-blood -- she lived close enough to the woods to know the vectors of creepy animal infection -- and then just stood there shuddering for awhile.

". . . I wanna go home."

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