There was a pleasant vibration in the air, soothing her, making it feel as if all her troubles are washing away. Her eyelids started closing by itself, that vibration having taken away her feeling of urgency and thus her need to stay awake.

"Mado."

She snapped awake immediately, startled by the hand gripping her shoulder.

"There." The gentleman she was with pointed his hand towards the lake.

The faceless man, herding those people in the cabin into the lake. THere was that familiar feeling of something crawling all over her skin, but there was something different about it. For instance that feeling of something crawling up her leg and into her skirt was new....

She lifted her skirt and flicked away a large candypede.

"Tch.." With her knife in hand she would have rushed the faceless man, gutted him and wear its stupid suit while she drags the naked corpse home, but the hand on her shoulder tightened. The faceless man continued walking on to the lake and just.... vanished as he would often do, leaving the others walking into the lake, making no effort to really swim. Oddly, even though the human body was buoyant, they seemed to be [i]sinking[/i]. As soon as the hand left her shoulder, she started to run towards the lakeside, but again, that strong hand gripped her just as she was about to go into the water.

"Why?" She turned back towards the gentleman, who was still calmly smoking, as if oblivious to the several people quite obviously drowning in front of him.

"Forgive me for asking, but.." He puffed out a perfect circle of smoke. " Mado my dear, can you swim?"

"..ah.." Mado went slack at that, prompting the gentleman to let go as soon as he was certain she wouldn't just jump in like a fool.

"There is nothing we can do."

With the faceless man gone, and the rest of the others drowning, she was powerless to do anything else but stare. Mado had thought the faceless man would kill them off one by one, but it seemed he had more power than she had imagined, simply dragging the lot out and drowning them in their sleep. Speaking of which, why wasn't she targeted? Did she have something the others didn't? If so, then what was it? What was it that saved her, and took the others? She was rather downcast by the mere thought that she could have done something to save the others. Not that she really know them or care about them terribly, but being able to stop the faceless man from killing would be nice.

"Best we can do now is wait until morning, and... oh. Well, at least some of them will be saved." He gestured out towards the lake, where the... the... other not human people were in a boat rescuing the sleepers.

She stared at the people in the boat for a while, then turned and walked back to the cabin slowly.