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[quote=Stacey]"So what you're saying is we'll see Caelea's Apparition. What're the chances that she'll know who we are? Will she be like the one that..."[/quote]

Odessa looked at Stacey. Eyes wide open, but yet a determined look on her face the whole time. Her mouth open to speak the words with absolute dead confidence, "... She'll look different but she'll come back almost the same as before," There wasn't a hint of ambiguity in Odessa's words. "[i]Trust me.[/i] I know what I'm talking about."

[quote=Stacey]"If it's a shared dream, is there a way out?"[/quote]
[quote][color=goldenrod]“Yeah, we find the dickhead whose nightmare we’re stuck inside of and shove our foot so far up their ass they’ll never be able to lie down to go to sleep ever again.”[/color][/quote]

"... [i]Where there's a will, there is a way,[/i]" Odessa spoke to Stacey compounding what Penny said. She was speaking as confidently as before. "No abstraction is flawless, after all." Odessa took a moment to look at her arm, pulling up her sleeve a bit to look at her various complex tattoos on her body.

"Well, riddle me this, 'Dessa," Hagan questioned as he fell out of his pit of depression for a moment. Just one moment, to ask a question. He was listening to everything that was being said with his arms crossed. There was a question on his mind. "... What if this [i]ain't[/i] a dream? And it's all real...?" Hagan just had to ponder.

Odessa looked over to Hagan and smiled. For the first time in a while. "... Well, my point still stands, Hagan. Every Abstraction has a blindspot, so to speak." She just flatly spoke as she merely shrugged and her smile went flat yet again. Every Abstraction did have a weakness or something they could take advantage of... just that finding it was beyond her.

"Hrm," Hagan replied.

[quote][color=goldenrod]“Look, I’m not against figuring out what’s going on, but let’s do it somewhere better than this. Like a place with a couch, or even just a chair. Everyone looks like they could use a break, and the street’s not cutting it. On our way, why not tell us about this place the Hound won’t go? I don’t know about you, but that sounds like paradise to me.”[/color] [/quote]

"Yeah, that's good," Zoey added on... even though the hot sun above was warming her up pretty good and she wasn't fucking freezing to death. Still, getting indoors was a great option too. She looked around and saw... Paradise Bank. Every time she saw the name "Paradise" she couldn't help but internally cringe, but she's not sure how long she's fucking been here. It seemed like several fucking days. It still probably had couches and it was within walking distance. Looking at her ragtag group of misfits, she gestured for them all to come along.

Odessa nodded her head up and down as she would prefer to stay in the sun but she had enough sun to last. Silently she went along with the rest of the group, but Penny had to prod. Odessa sighed for a moment as they walked along. Might as well explain. "It's known as [i]The Pit[/i]. Well, it's tough to explain but..." She looked at the kids and they probably had no idea what she was about to say. Or if they were even listening, still...

"... There exist alternate universes but in between them, there's this place known as the [i]Void[/i]... which is basically [i]unreality[/i]. There exists a net that "catches" anything that falls between the cracks of reality and that is the Pit. Thousands of locations coalesced into one place... and it's full of unspeakable horrors. Death doesn't exist there, but he Pit twists whatever is there into abominations... it's to the point where people would rather face the Hound."

Odessa explained up until they made it to the entrance of the Bank... Odessa held open the door as everyone walked inside but Zoey gave her a look. Narrow, sharp as knives... and she could barely figure out why. Inside the bank was fairly large... the tile floors were clean as the day they were made, implying that nobody even stepped foot in the place. The whole place just looked... white. White ceiling, white columns, white furniture. The main lobby was empty though, but it had several sofas lying around with offices on the side. Directly opposite to them was the Teller Desk, but Odessa had no interest in it.

"... Now I'm freezing my tits off again," Zoey said as she felt the air conditioning hit her. She didn't exactly waste any time in finding the nearest sofa and flopping down on it. Resting her face onto her hands, but she felt like she's been running forever. Finally getting a break after so much. She took in a deep breath, and then let it out. She needed to breathe, more time to recover. "So... where were we?"