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>Hansel sat comfortably in his bus seat as he took in his surroundings and thought about how far he and his friends came
>To his left, Cindy was sitting quietly and fiddling with her pants and shirt, very obviously trying to keep her mind occupied from falling asleep
>It was night now and it marked day 2 of their journey, they had just escaped from the frogmen's temple with their lives. Thank god Miner the bus driver knew his way around
>speaking of, Miner was busy polishing his pickaxe while he let Timothy Dull take the wheel for the meantime. Hansel trusted Dull enough that they'd stay on course
>further behind Cindy sat Mandy, she was in charge of the directions, so she was drawing and marking locations on the map along with small comic strips for fun
>Nancy was near the back of the bus, she could be heard talking to someone on the phone. She was holding her brother's credit card, so the assumption was Robert found out about the group's bad spending habits
>Max was surprisingly quiet. Every now and then, Max would look behind him and quickly turn away like he didn't want to get caught. Hansel would have to ask him about that later.
>"pssh, hey big bro..." a voice whispered
>lifting his head, Hansel saw his self proclaimed little sister looking down on him with a perplexed look on her face
>"What's up Ash?"
>"It's been two days now and I'm just a bit confused. Are you guys pretending not to see me?"
>"What?" he asked with genuine confusion.
>"I mean, we're playing hide and seek, yet none of you guys claimed to found me despite wanting to look for me."
>"Look...for you? What do you mean? We're looking for my sister, not yo-ooohhhhh..."
>Hansel put the pieces together and understood that Ashley misunderstood the purpose of this quest
>"Ash, we're looking for my real sister." An awkward silence befell them, then Ashley simply smiled at him and slumped back down in her seat without a word.