05 | voice | day 108

[intelligently]

I know that this sounds odd. [ And isn't really a question that people generally ask. Also what isn't odd, around here? It's her justification ] But with what's been happening I'd like to know.

[ There's a pause. It's a touchy subject, obviously, and she's not even sure where the conversations might go ]

I want to know about your experience with death. [ She's going to try and go slow on this. As slow as Lydia Martin wanting to know something can. But things are pretty messed up. She feels pretty messed up. And she'll even tell her reasons for asking if she's asked ]

Not just if you know someone has died but... if you've seen it. [ A two second pause ] Or nearly died.

It's happened here, and could have happened a lot more. [ If Dirk hadn't put out that useful message. People were still taken but at least they were warned ]

But- Can people come back? [ It might sound crazy, but it's happened before. It happened to Jackson - twice, although that was a supernatural thing. But it leaves the possibility, right? ]

( PRIVATE: Allison Argent | "Stiles" Stilinski )

I'm going to the library. Hopefully it's as useful as it should be.

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[nedofpies]

[ It's not exactly the question he'd been expecting, but he's secretly glad that she seems ... at least to believe him, and be taking it all in. Not telling him that he's lying or a freak or any variety of other colorful scenarios ]

No, it wasn't. Everything was sort of... upside-down, that week. I didn't have my usual power. I know, because I tested it. I could touch dead stuff and nothing happened. But I could make things grow, just by touching the ground and sort of wanting it to happen, and whenever I got hurt- [ He says it as if it happened rather a lot, even though it was only for the space of a few days ] -I healed.

But like I said, everything was insane that week. Daneel turned into a human and River turned into a tree spirit and half my friends were vampires for some reason.

[intelligently]

Has that happened before? Everything changing like that?

[ She doesn't know if she wants to believe it but she does. It's weird enough that it could happen but horrifying enough that it shouldn't - that it's wrong ]

[nedofpies]

Not just like that, no. But... unusual occurrences of one kind or another are common enough. But you probably already got that. [ What with the weird dreams and the weird sea monster and the weird... everything ]

Lydia... [ Ned isn't quite sure it's polite to bring it up, but his curiosity (and concern) is getting the better of him ] Can I just ask- why the question and answer session about all things morbid?

[intelligently]

[ Lydia nods. She's starting to figure it out, anyway - from what's been said and the things she'd seen. This place is another strange place

But then she just looks at him or at the video, just for a moment. She'd expected someone to ask sooner or later ]

I keep finding bodies. Not just Wallie but I found one at home, and apparently I'll find more. [ If what Stiles said is true, anyway, and she believes him. He wouldn't make up this crazy crap ]

[nedofpies]

[ Ned listens, running a hand over his mouth. Finding bodies is something he's done a lot of, too, in his life, but the way she says it makes it sound different. He thinks back to how she'd behaved and asks ] Do you always go into a trance like that, beforehand?

[ He doesn't even question how she knows she is going to find more. Stranger things happen around here than getting a glimpse into one's future. ]

[intelligently]

[ Lydia nods slowly ] I did before. I'd got into my car to go to the store and ended up at the pool.

[ Sounded dangerous, right? Apparently she could still drive and do so well despite everything ]

[nedofpies]

[ Yes, she'd said something about driving at the time. So from the sound of it, the trance state and the stumbling across bodies are in some way connected, and not a result of any tampering from the scientists, since it happened to her back home. Ned tries to think of any similar cases he's heard about, or what it could mean, but he has no frame of reference for this ]

That sounds... alarming. For you, I mean.

[intelligently]

Yeah. It probably wouldn't be as bad if there weren't bodies at the end of it.

[ It would still be bad, and frightening - or more weird, but less scary and freaking-out-y than having a body there too ]

[nedofpies]

Dead bodies generally spoil things, yes. [ Ned knows the feeling behind that statement all too well. He wants to reassure Lydia as much as possible, without trivializing what must be a pretty frightening and unpleasant thing for her ] But you're not killing them, or causing them to be killed, or really harming them in any way. You're just uncovering them, right? [ That has to be some comfort ]

[intelligently]

There's that. [ It was the smallest upside, anyway ] I just wish I wasn't doing that either.