[ Heās admittedly a little slow to decipher her meaning. Itās sort of like how he needs an embarrassingly long moment sometimes to fully comprehend what Dustin is babbling about, but he lets himself be slow, lets himself work through the things River is saying phrased by phrase. He made a promise and crossed his heart, after all. Heās not going to pull away from all of this now.
He already knows thereās two of themāthe necklace was his clue there. One was left waiting in the darkāso they were separated at some point, and the tother came back wrong. Wrong, like half of the bodies here look now. Itās horrifying in the aftermath; he can only imagine what it was like to be there and he makes a second mental note to talk to Steve when all of this is over.
People said they looked like twinsāsoā¦siblings, or mother and daughter, but relatives of some sort. Red hair, just like the woman with the bone charm, but no face to go off of. In the end, he gets it and snaps to attention. ]
Red hairā¦.red hair, no faceā¦red hair, no faceā¦.
[ He gives Riverās shoulder a quick, reassuring squeeze and mumbles to himself as he begins to walk down the rows of corpses, skipping right by anyone who may still be recognizable as human. It takes several moments, but River has helped to narrow down what heās looking for. In the end, he stops in front of the body of a woman, more plant than human now, with a few wisps of auburn hair laying limp across a grotesque collection of gnarled roots that are no longer recognizable as a face. He frowns, and his stomach turns once more. What happened on that godforsaken island? ]
So, uh, she fits the bill. But sheās not wearing a necklace. I guess it could have been lost, butā¦
[ He sure hopes they didnāt just hit a dead end. ]
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[ Heās admittedly a little slow to decipher her meaning. Itās sort of like how he needs an embarrassingly long moment sometimes to fully comprehend what Dustin is babbling about, but he lets himself be slow, lets himself work through the things River is saying phrased by phrase. He made a promise and crossed his heart, after all. Heās not going to pull away from all of this now.
He already knows thereās two of themāthe necklace was his clue there. One was left waiting in the darkāso they were separated at some point, and the tother came back wrong. Wrong, like half of the bodies here look now. Itās horrifying in the aftermath; he can only imagine what it was like to be there and he makes a second mental note to talk to Steve when all of this is over.
People said they looked like twinsāsoā¦siblings, or mother and daughter, but relatives of some sort. Red hair, just like the woman with the bone charm, but no face to go off of. In the end, he gets it and snaps to attention. ]
Red hairā¦.red hair, no faceā¦red hair, no faceā¦.
[ He gives Riverās shoulder a quick, reassuring squeeze and mumbles to himself as he begins to walk down the rows of corpses, skipping right by anyone who may still be recognizable as human. It takes several moments, but River has helped to narrow down what heās looking for. In the end, he stops in front of the body of a woman, more plant than human now, with a few wisps of auburn hair laying limp across a grotesque collection of gnarled roots that are no longer recognizable as a face. He frowns, and his stomach turns once more. What happened on that godforsaken island? ]
So, uh, she fits the bill. But sheās not wearing a necklace. I guess it could have been lost, butā¦
[ He sure hopes they didnāt just hit a dead end. ]