[Center] [h1] [color=A0522D] Mikhail Afanasyev [/color] [/h1] 
[sub][color=A0522D][b]Location:[/b][/color] Class -> Cafeteria
[color=A0522D][b]Time:[/b][/color] Morning
[color=A0522D][b]Mentions:[/b][/color] None
[color=A0522D][b]Interactions:[/b][/color] Open [/sub]
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Drowsily Mikhail exited his class, he hated morning classes because he would spend his time trying to not fall sleep rather than on paying attention. While grabbing his phone, he saw one of the strange creatures behind him. If he had to describe it would be a mass of black flesh sporting creepy long thin arms and seemingly no legs, dragging itself by using its arms at an amazing speed, soon followed by one of his classmates passing him by. Mikhail looked back at his reflection on the phone, he hadn't really thought about it until now but adding to the pile of mysteries it was weird that he saw his reflection just fine instead of seeing a shadow monster as the others had. Thought even the creatures that made up that twisted world changed day by day instead of being permanent counterparts like he had thought on his first few days here. Nothing about the situation made sense, and it was honestly too early to be wracking his brain thinking about it. 

Mikhail went into the cafeteria to grab some coffee to wake himself up. Now with a bit more energy, he was thinking about skipping his next class to go to look for info in the library again. If he didn't find anything today he might have to go ask one of the locals about the shadows, as much as he disliked the idea. Some of them didn't seem too fond of foreigners and might just think he's mocking whatever myths they have, or do worse and feed him bullshit so he stops bothering them. Still, his last visit to the library hadn't been completely worthless, he had found the abnormal amount of people that went missing each year here. People going to work and never arriving, a camper's belongings being found without a single footprint or sign to point out their whereabouts and even one case of a kid just vanishing inside his room one night.

He felt a chill on his spine when recalling those cases. Mikhail had done his best to treat the things around him as mere topics to investigate and solve. It did distract him from the fact that if he wasn't just crazy and seeing things, these creatures were all around him and just like with that kid they can just snatch him up and no one will hear from him again. He shook his head, there was no need to make himself panic. There was no way to stop seeing them and fearing them will just make him go crazy sooner rather than later. In the end, it was a better plan to go to class, it'd put the topic off his mind for a while and it may be a better idea going to the library when there are more people around.