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Carmen shrunk away as Brian snapped at her. She had been expecting him to snap at her for being useless and having made no actual progress - she would disagree and say not finding a ghost anywhere was progress towards leaving this place! - but that wasn't the case. She wondered if his own searching had turned up nothing and, with how insistent he was on finding someone or something in here, was getting angry at her. As such, Carmen did as he asked, not wanting to unjustly yelled at again, and meandered about and away from the man for a few moments. She wanted to leave as fast as possible but he would probably yell or shout at her if she just exited on her own, and so she needed to take a different avenue to get him to leave.  "S-so, do you know where we should look next?" Again, Brian jammed his hands in his pockets and shifted one of his hips as far away from Carmen as possible. "I said leave me alone, didn't I? What, you want to strip search me or something? I just came down here to make sure you didn't fuck anything up." "Eh? Ew..." Carmen's face scrunched in genuine disgust as the notion of strip searching him came up, and then shrunk back once again as Brian verbally retaliated at her. She didn't meet his eyes, her own darting from side to side, as she felt the need to put up the barest defense for herself. "Well, I uh...didn't mess anything up." The girl paced around ground floor as she attempted to keep the appearance of searching, without actually attempting to find anything.  "B-but I can't find anything s-so...do you think we should leave this place?" "Yeah, sure, whatever." Brian said, continuing to match his rotation with Carmen's meandering. "You leave and go tell Shiki we didn't find shit, and I'll stay here. I'll pack up or something." The girl's eyes lit up as Brian seemed finally willing to leave this haunted house, and immediately made an about face as she began to make her way to the door. The place had been nothing but dust and cobwebs and she had wanted to leave since the moment she got here. More than normal, too! She was just glad that Brian finally agreed to -  "Huh?" The girl stopped in her tracks, frozen in place as she realized something was off. Brian had been adamant about there being someone here in need of saving, a real person and not a ghost, and had even called her crazy over it! He wouldn't so wishy washily tell her she could leave without first calling her crazy again and finding some way to defend the fact that they had found nothing. More than that, though, she had been ignoring the elephant in the room this whole time.  A voice that emanated from Brian that reminded her of Cathy Langhorne, a girl she knew in middle school who had taken to being a menace in Carmen's life because she had spoken every so often to a boy that Cathy had liked. A truly unnerving monster. Yet Brian didn't seem to notice or care about it. Something was wrong. And so, struggling to push her voice out her mouth, the girl had finally asked,  "um...by the way...did you ever find that um...person?" "What person?" Brian snapped. It took a moment's consideration for him to realize what Carmen was talking about. "Yeah. It's fine. I figured it out, no thanks to you. I said you could leave now, right?" Carmen started to tremble, tapping her fingers nervously together, as she realized her fears were both rationale and sensible. Again.  "O-oh...so was it...th-the ghost, then?" Brian brought both hands to cover a single portion of his hip, an even more defensive stance. "What can I say to make you get out of here? I said it was fine! Scram! What part of 'leave me alone' didn't you understand?" "S-sorry! I'll be uh- " the girl turned away and didn't look directly at him. Brian was a jerk. This was a fact. However, even this level of aggression and hostility was unusual even for him. She hadn't done anything worth being yelled at about, and couldn't help but feel like if she didn't ask these questions he would have normally yelled at her for being a useless, cry baby, scaredy cat who couldn't find her way out of a bathroom and needed to be dragged along to do anything. And even if she didn't know how much he cared about saving other people, he at least always forced her along to go to the end of a job. Even fake Brian was more supportive in that endeavor than he was being right now. So, she figured that the ghost that was yelling at her was the culprit.  Carmen considered leaving and getting Shiki for help, but the ghost really wanted her to leave so she could only imagine something really bad happening to Real Brian if she went along with it. The girl's muscle's tightened as she realized she'd have to figure out something all on her own. He didn't seem interested in talking and she felt like he'd charge and punch her if she asked any more questions, which was definitely no something she wanted. She glanced over and couldn't help but notice how he kept holding onto his pants like someone who had forgotten their belt and was desperate to keep their trousers from falling off at any cost. All of this struck Carmen as incredibly suspicious, and the girl felt more and more like she were she to leave something terrible would happen to Brian. And then something terrible would probably to her. If nothing else Shiki would probably get angry with her and the girl wanted to deal with an angry Shiki even less than an even more than normal irritable Brian.  The girl's eyes darted to every which direction they could. Her breathing hastened. Her legs trembled and her fingers clenched the flashlight tighter. She hadn't made a move yet but she sweated like she was under a 90 degree, clear skied sunny day. She wanted to leave. "I'll...just..." She didn't want to leave haunted by a ghost. She didn't want to make Shiki mad. And she didn't want to leave Brian to die.   "Arrrrgh!" In a manic frenzy, like a sobbing warthog, Carmen charged Brian and threw her entire body at him to tackle him. "Stop telling me to leave!" 

Tonight I dreamed i was at a card shop looking at all the new releases and saw that Pokemon released Commander cards (like in the commander format of MTG). They were all black with a C instead of the HP. The rules was that you started the game with you poké-commander in a special spot, it cannot be attacked and cannot inflict direct damage to other pokemon. Instead it only have moves with passive/supporting ability. Also, you had to discard the energy cost to use these moves (a bit like XYZ monster in ygh).  Anyway I tried to represent what I saw in my dream (I only saw these two cards and I don't know if Commander could evolve)

Fen glanced towards Melissa and Cormag, curious to continue observing the two's behaviors, as she listened to Rona and Trevor talk. The squad leader perked up as Rona had mentioned the details of the mission they were on today. While she wasn't exactly experienced with dealing with kids, she thought of herself as something of a pro when it came to cleaning old abandoned and dilapidated buildings. Fen chimed in along with Trevor, echoing his sentiment. "Yes, you can leave up any mansion cleaning to us!"   As Rona began to voice some concern on complications said complications manifested themselves. Fen watched curiously as the new girl ran in. She was reminded of someone riding a temperamental horse that they have very little experience in handling, one that would pull its rider along and crash into every which obstruction it could. Only in this case the girl's body was the unruly horse.  Though both her introduction and the way she spoke was more reminiscent of a hurricane. As such Fen was taken by surprise as the girl produced a myriad of hot dogs, a food that had a likeness to the kind she would find at the park from yesterday, and handed them off. With a slightly befuddled, "oh, um, thank you," the girl looked at the food and examined it as Rona and the new girl, Hana, continued back and forth with each other.  She could appreciate someone who put food as a top priority and simply smiled to the girl as she introduced herself. "It's a pleasure to meet you Hana, I'm Fen. Uh, the leader of Team Manna," she repeated herself. As she took a bite of her food, the girl said, "oh...it's delicious." She took another bite, then looked to Hana curiously. "I'm not familiar with this kind of meat though. Do you know what kind of dog this is?"