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I think I'm maybe just paranoid. Maybe not even paranoid in the right places.

If we are in danger - and we might not be, but if we are - then I think I have to tell you, because I don't think I can do what I'd have to do by myself. But since there are mindreaders in play, it's best not to tell anyone else anything that could get us caught. It might be worth it for you to try blocking them, but since I don't even know if that works, I think our first line of defense has to be having as few people in the know as possible until we have a plan.

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That sounds pretty exhausting honestly, I don't think I'm going to do it.

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It kind of is. I feel like we're probably screwed either way if they read us and aren't friendly, so that's pretty reasonable.

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I bet they won't bother. No one wants to hear what a bunch of teenagers think.

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Maybe.

She taps her pen irritably.

I'm worried about some stuff but I think I should probably talk about it later tonight.

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Okay. 

 

Has anyone asked about the missing kids?

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Nobody's said anything to me about it. Might be worth it to ask some of the counselors and see what they say.

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The three of them snuck into town and into a bar and got drunk and have been expelled from camp.

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This is totally plausible, but then she's been told that good liars try to tell plausible lies.

 

She makes it through the day. After dinner, she writes another note and passes it to Trace. 

So the thing is that the stuff I found in Melissa's computer included a lot of information about experiments that the government is running on demons. Lots of them are lobotomies, they leave the demons comatose or dead or with serious brain damage. At least one operation that involved cutting heart tissue from a living demon. A lot of cases on sapient demons. I don't know that it has anything to do with why the government decided to run a summer camp for superheroes, but I don't want to bet lives on it, especially with kids going missing. I'm going to head into town tonight and call for backup. You can decide whether you want to leave with me or stay here.

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Wow. 


I'm with you.

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Cool. 

She sort of thinks an at all competent evil summer camp would have the entire grounds covered, but it's possible they don't, so the cafeteria bathrooms are probably still their best bet. From there they can leave the camp and eventually circle around to the road, and from the road they can get back to the nearest small town. Towns mostly have payphones. She doesn't have a million quarters, but she thinks she has enough. 

She dials Dennis's number and asks his parents to put him on.

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"Hey. Thought you were at summer camp."

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"Oh, yeah, I am, but I think it might be an evil summer camp, so I snuck out, and conditional on it being an evil summer camp I think they might have my phone tapped? So I'm calling you instead of my sister, so that you can telepathically contact Alex."

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" - so, uh, it sounds like you're keeping track of a lot of things right now, but I'm actually not telepathic."

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"No, no, I know. He is. It'll work. Just - think the words 'paging Alex' at him, and then ask him, on a scale of one to ten, how sure he is that his Quendi friend in the government is not running an evil summer camp that exists to kidnap half-demons or figure out whether specific people are more useful as soldiers or as lobotomized lab rats, or whatever."

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" - you know what, fine."

...paging Alex? Ugh, how would you even know if you were doing this right -

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Cause I'll be like 'hey, what?'

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Gah.

OK, uh, Karen wants to know how sure you are that your government Quendi friend isn't, quote, 'running an evil summer camp'? Sorting demon people into soldier types and lobotomized lab rat types? On a scale of one to ten. 

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What's one and what's ten?

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Man, I don't know.

"He wants to know what one and ten are."

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"Um, I dunno, ten is 'I was actually my friend all along and am therefore as certain as one can be that their motivations are not that', and one is 'well, I know I told Karen that they were fine, but actually I met them once at a party a thousand years ago and they were giving off shifty vibes at the time, so come to think of it I actually know zero things.'"

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Dennis attempts to think this at Alex.

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Tell her ten. Does she want us to come out there?

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She sighs when this is relayed. "No, not for a ten. Found some files about how the government is doing live dissections and lobotomies on sapient demons and stuff, which I'm pretty sure is unconstitutional or something on top of being really sketchy, but - "

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"The government's doing what?"

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