Huh?

[a_gentle_boy]

[phone]
[Oh OK so.  That just happened.  ...Lucas listens a little blankly to the announcement before blinking a few times to himself.]

So, um.  I'm... kind of... still here... So don't worry!  ...I mean, not that it's really that important, and there are probably a lot of other people who are really gone, but.  ...Is there someone else named Lucas here?

[action]
[Today is a normal day.  Lucas delivers the mail, takes his rounds making sure his friends are alright, stops by at the malt shop... And yet, everywhere he goes, he gets nothing but dirty glances.  It's more than mildly confusing, and so it is that he ends up sitting on his front porch frowning to himself.  It's been a long time since he's done so, but eventually, he'll get out the yo-yo and begin to quietly practice some tricks by himself.

The rhythmicity of the movements makes him feel a bit better.]

((Lucas was wiped, so please respond as if he were fake!))

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[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Crowe's also another who's been erased. He's in a bit of a panic - it's giving him flashbacks of last Christmas in Mayfield. Being invisible amongst everyone. This is playing on a big fear of his.

He's running up to Lucas's house to check on him and Silence, to see if they'll remember him, when he stops dead a few yards away. He's panting hard.

That wasn't Lucas. It looked like him, but...]

N-No... Lucas?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas glances up and Crowe and manages a small smile. By this point, he's used enough to the feeling when he sees his 'friends' not to be too perturbed by it.]

It's me.

...Mr. Silence is out. ...He was on the list, too.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

But... [No, it's Lucas! Isn't it?]

B-Both of you, but...

Was it the dream? Did you have one too?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

I think everyone in town had one. Some people said yes.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

S-So that was really it... This is awful. It's like you - we - are drones without actually being droned o-or something.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

It's a little bit like... the pod-people who were here a few months ago. ...I think maybe, that was to prepare. Everyone's assuming we're replacements again because of what happened on Halloween.

I guess the town is pretty smart.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Y-Yeah. But it's like people are almost acting on it instinctually. That makes it even worse.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

I haven't asked exactly what's wrong yet, but... Maybe we should know.

...Tell me everything that's not right about me, Crowe. And I'll tell you everything about you.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

It's... um... hard to put my finger on, yeah? You don't seem like you. You don't feel right.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Nothing very specific? Not... the way I move, or the way I'm saying things, or... anything like that?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

L-Like... most of it, really. You look like you, but you don't feel like you. L-Like it's just wrong.