( may event ) sudden recall

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EVENT: SUDDEN RECALL

On the day of the fifteenth, as the sun finally begins to break through the clouds that have been hanging over the town for weeks, the incessant ringing of your house phone similarly pierces the stillness, and refuses to cease until you answer it. You're free to leave your house and simply ignore it, of course, but judging by the distant sounds of ringing coming from all of the other houses on your street as well, it's probably an important call. It would really be a shame if you missed it.

... or it could just be an update from the mayor on the town's current state of post-flood recovery. But maybe that is important to you. Civic pride is important, after all, you'd never catch Linda missing an address from the mayor. Even one as strange as this one.

The voice on the other line isn't as polished or eloquent as you'd expect from someone in such a high position of authority, sounding rather dazed and distracted instead, with meandering sentences, abrupt stops, and sudden topic shifts. The information's all there, certainly, if you can parse through the mess, but something about the delivery itself is troubling, something that lingers in the back of your mind like a shadow throughout the day.

Maybe it happens the moment you hang up the phone, or perhaps a few hours later as you're gossiping with a neighbor about whether or not the mayor has a drinking problem, but at some point during the day you're suddenly struck, sent nearly reeling by a vision, a... memory? The chill of metal against your bare back, a bustle of men and women around you, like a churning tide of movement. Their voices a steady drone of clipped conversation around you, but the words themselves are indecipherable. It doesn't seem to slot neatly into your misty memories of Wayward Pines, but then, it doesn't feel anything like that troubling other that's been steadily building and growing in your mind since that fateful day you woke up in the hospital not so long ago.

And yet it feels real all the same.

Over the next few days, it quickly becomes clear that you aren't the only one feeling... off. All over town the people of Wayward Pines are acting strange, distracted, wary. Even Linda fails to make any of her weirdly competitive passive aggressive comments when you see her at the bakery. So that's one good thing to come of all this, at least.

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Comments

[ceoinstilettos]

I… I don’t know. [ she breaths deep, a pause following because she’s got to choose her words carefully. ] But what’s done is done, and now that we know we can do our best to avoid and prevent it from happening again. [ she scoots closer to clary, reaching for her hand, so she can take it in her own. ] It’s going to be alright. [ she’s going to do her best to keep clary safe in her mother’s absence. ] I’m sure your mom’s fine. [ she pulls her into a hug, squeezing her tightly. ]

[babyhunter]

[Clary nods her head but it's just an automatic reaction. Can they really do anything? She signs heavily before turning to look at her Aunt. The touch is comforting and she's happy to have someone like Pep in her life.]

Thanks. I wish I could believe that too.

[Frankly, she can't.]