Okay, so backwards establishment. Deni probably learned Su left at some point in the time-skip. She’ll have been very sad and tried calling Su to talk about it, and if she failed sent a text message. Mostly just wanting to know why directly from Su, that way she can be more fine about it.

When Loc here says those who arrive through his game need not be alive, Deni freaks out a little, because Su isn’t dead, right? Loc can confirm she indeed isn’t dead. Deni’s relieved, considers for a bit if she wants to vote for Su or not, because if Su’s picked maybe someone else loses the chance to remeet some dead person they could otherwise never meet again. However, she figures that the more the merrier, if more people vote more people will be coming to the party, and it would be cool if Su could make it, and as such she votes for her with the additional message that “Helga can come with her!”.

[hr]

It’s in the middle of the snow-battle, with Penny growing fiercer by the second and more people joining. Freya was the one who was actually able to keep up with Penny’s physical capability, not even Mayra could do that (due to Mayra having invested a bit in magic, too). Anyway, eventually she noticed she had a phone in one of her pockets. Freya lifted it, and-

[color=C5DBE7]‘…!’[/color] 

Proceeded to throw the phone into a tree over there with her full gigantic strength where it promptly broke into pieces, Freya’s eyes wide. From that moment, she no longer could participate in the snowball fight and had to run off. She was left gasping a bit in the forest, before she grunted and went off to search for a single individual. She found her sitting behind a tree playing a game on her phone.

[color=C5DBE7]‘I received a text-message. Track down where it came from,’[/color] Freya commanded her, deeply frowning.

[color=A2DFF6]‘That’s usually easier if you don’t break the phone. Fortunately, I already know who sent it,’[/color] the girl replied, rolling her shoulders a bit. [color=A2DFF6]‘There’s a horror playing a game. Send him a text message, and you enter a lottery in which you may have a reunion with someone from your past. The person need not be alive. They’ll return to where they were before after this event. The text was an appetizer, meant to get your attention. A second message, that I guess you never saw, explained the rules. So, who was it that texted you?’[/color] she asked, peering up at Freya. Freya grunted, and looked away.

[color=C5DBE7]‘… A long dead ally from my homeworld. A… very close friend…’[/color] Freya muttered.

[color=A2DFF6]‘So here’s your chance to bring her back from the dead for a short time. Maybe. Why not go for it?’[/color] the girl asked.

[color=C5DBE7]‘… It’s not that simple. The monsters were the enemy. Now, I am the monster. She’d see me as an enemy. That and…’[/color] Freya grunted. [color=C5DBE7]‘… I don’t see how seeing her again would help. Astrid’s dead, so her experience doesn’t matter. It would be purely for myself if I were to try to get her back. I can’t see how that could possibly be anything but just painful for me,’[/color] she muttered, unconvinced and uneasy.

[color=A2DFF6]‘That, or it could be a cathartic moment of healing. Wasn’t that what that boy told you? Heck, you’d never have opened up to me like this before you spoke to him,’[/color] the other girl said, poking on her phone.

Freya frowned. Indeed, that’s what that boy had said. That her impression of things was all wrong, that she was the one who hadn’t grown up yet. The idea frustrated her, yet…

[color=C5DBE7]‘… Geh. Fine. I’ll try it…’[/color] she eventually gave in.

The other girl smirked, and handed Freya a new phone, using which she could send the text-message to the horror…