The consensus seemed to be that they would be hanging around town for a little bit. On top of that, it seemed at least one of their number had gone off on their own. If ghosty expected them all to work together, Michael swore she was the biggest fool he had ever met. Ascot decided to investigate the notion that this town might be in festival time, and sure enough, it was true. Not only that, but these people were just handing out food like it meant nothing. Michael wondered just how weird this place was going to get. Before going off on his own, a growing trend in this [i]'group'[/i], Ascot passed off the food he had gathered onto him. Michael didn't object, though he wondered why he was Ascot's first thought of pack mule. He would have joined him in questioning the jester girl, but he remembered something...neither he nor Ascot were watching the psycho.

Quickly turning around, Michael discovered Anni of all people having gotten close to him. He had no idea what she was doing, but any thoughts of asking were quickly put aside when somebody new came upon their group. Somebody that very clearly was not of this world, just like them. Not only that, but he was here for the Magician, just like them. Was ghost girl going to be sending an endless stream of people here? In fact...was it possible they weren't even the [i]first[/i] people she had sent here? [color=fdc68a]"Calm down, Anni."[/color] Michael told the girl. Though he couldn't entirely blame her for being flustered by a new arrival in this godforsaken world. [color=fdc68a]"Like she said, we're all here for the Magician."[/color] He said to the new arrival. [color=fdc68a]"I'm Michael Keahi. Call me Mike."[/color] Maybe this would be the first person to actually call him Mike, seeing as he didn't know he was a police officer yet. Giving him a closer look, he seemed disturbed by the knife nut. [color=fdc68a]"Don't mind him. He's unwanted baggage, courtesy of little miss ghosty herself. Speaking of which, I don't suppose you were dumped here by her too?"[/color] It seemed like the most obvious conclusion, though it was hardly beyond reasonable doubt to say there might be more than one supernatural being abducting people to fight their battles in a foreign world.

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