[Picky really needed to go and see for himself that the other disappeared people really were disappeared... and although he hadn't liked what he first saw, he had to keep seeing. Had to. Just to be sure.
So he was standing a distance away from not-Lucas-but-maybe-Lucas-but-not, watching with wide eyes as he did awesome things with his yo-yo.]
...I didn't know Lucas knew yo-yo tricks.
[Because that wasn't Lucas up there. And that was sad. But yo-yo tricks were cool, no matter who was doing them.]
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So he was standing a distance away from not-Lucas-but-maybe-Lucas-but-not, watching with wide eyes as he did awesome things with his yo-yo.]
...I didn't know Lucas knew yo-yo tricks.
[Because that wasn't Lucas up there. And that was sad. But yo-yo tricks were cool, no matter who was doing them.]