Re: Woods: Holly and Rafe
Blame the world Holly grew up in, right? Because there was no law against powered people there, because those types of people only existed in comics and movies, right? And everyone talked about haunted places and paranormal stuff, but no one had ever managed to prove anything. No one had recorded anything or documented anything, and everyone recorded and documented everything there. Here? You couldn't walk, like, ten-feet without tripping over some magical fool, and in Repose? People talked about it like it was all golden. Now, Holly? He hadn't been out to the Capital to see that island prison for all people with abilities, but he'd spent enough time in the military to know precisely how Big Brother felt about people they couldn't control. Anyway, right, Audrey was one of the few people Holly knew who didn't have anything special about her, so maybe she was due some fucked up, life-changing thing. Maybe she could shoot lasers out of her eyes now or something.
But, right. Right.
"IDK who she is, or what she has going on, but it's probably a good idea to keep an eye out. And I'll see what I can find out too," he said, without specifically mentioning Noah. And, really, Holly was only gonna involve Noah if the guy came back from his conference feeling better; the Audrey thing had really fucked with the guy.
He rubbed at the back of his neck, really not wanting to spend too much time wondering who Audrey was. And if this Audrey wasn't the real Audrey, then where was the real Audrey? Yeah, no, that was a terrible fucking rabbit hole, and Holly wasn't about to climb down it. As it was, the buzzing was getting louder, and he could literally feel the air getting thinner, and, yeah, it was time for him to bail.
"Look, I gotta go. I wouldn't hang out here a long time if I was you," he suggested. He knew other people couldn't feel the... thinning? Thinnies? Whatever, the thing, but he realized he could. I mean, it wasn't realization, so much as it was acceptance. So, alright, he could do this, deal with it, whatever. But, right now? Right now he wanted the safety of his place above the store, which felt better with Noah being gone. "There's shit in these woods," he added, and he pointed toward the Facility. "Watch out for openings in the trees." Which was more than he should probably say, but this guy seemed okay.
He raised his hand in a halfhearted-kinda farewell, and then he took off for the Jeep, you know, in a totally chill manner.