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Day 26 - New arrivals!
Who: Stephen, Spencer, and Oz. [And maybe any locals that happen upon them.]
What: The latest victims wake up in Vas.
Where: Edge of the forest near the clock tower.
When: Day 26 - 7:15am.
Rating: PG.
Status: Active.



It was the prickle of grass against his skin, tickling his nose, that woke Stephen up. The feeling was by no means uncommon, but it was off. He had just been at the beach; grass was not what he should be feeling. Beach... the scorpion... Helen's hushed voice... they were dead...

His thoughts brought consciousness swiftly and Stephen sat up abruptly, eyes flying open. But instead of falling on gently crashing waves or sand or that damned giant scorpion thrashing at the end of its tether he was faced with a treeline, and an unfamiliar one at that. What happened? Had an anomaly just... appeared right in front of him? The last thing he remembered was striding across the sand to his vehicle with Helen's words echoing in his head. The team was dead. Nick was dead. But Helen was alive and needed him to play hero and rescue her.

A hard shake of his head, one hand briefly pressing to a temple and then running back through his hair as he tried to feel if he had been knocked out with something, and then he was getting to his feet. Blue eyes narrowed slightly at the trees, likely the edge of a forest of some size. Something was off. It didn't look right, or feel right. He just couldn't quite put his finger on it at the moment. A noise had him turning sharply to one side, left hand reaching for a gun that wasn't there, and a confused look came to his face when he saw someone else lying in the grass. Actually, two someones. Two men he didn't recognize, at all.

He took a quick look around him, weary of a threat appearing out of nowhere, only to have his sense of confusion increase as he saw buildings somewhat nearby. So. An anomaly appeared out of nowhere that went to... the future? Somewhere not so far in the past? Unlikely. And that wouldn't explain the two others. Or why there was no shining anomaly nearby. Stephen rubbed a hand over his face, the other resting on his hip as he sighed heavily. This couldn't be happening... whatever the hell was happening. He needed to get to Helen. He needed to find the team, even if they were dead. No matter what she said, he wouldn't believe it unless he saw it for himself. It was too unfathomable to think that they were really dead. That Nick and Connor and Abby were gone.

Briefly lost in his thoughts and the grief that wanted to creep up on him, Stephen didn't immediately catch on that the other two men were stirring.