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You’re gonna be waiting for a <span class="mu-i">while</span>, bucko! Not wanting to stick around until Jake kicks the door down, you take a few steps back before diving through the window like a lion jumping through a flaming hoop!
Flipping in mid-air, you grab the windowsill in uncharacteristic gymnastic proficiency and scurry along using the route you saw Pepper take!
She’s taking her time, by the way… with how dark it’s getting you hope she didn’t fall! Chancing a look at the moon above, your heart falters a bit when you see even <span class="mu-i">more</span> dark, thick clouds rolling in from the sea to engulf the moon.
No doubt about it, you reason as you continue to inch across the wall, a storm’s coming!
Speaking of storms, your skater pal storms through the window as well, albeit a little less smoothly than you did! Squirming through the tight squeeze like it was giving birth to him, Raj gives you the best thumbs up he can manage as he nearly kicks apart the curtains getting through!
You linger in place for a moment in case the dope decides to slip and fall, but all that skateboarding seems to have paid off: even with Linda held in one hand the guy manages to avoid falling and breaking his neck! Props!
As you get to the point where the wall ends and the <span class="mu-s">OFFICE’S</span> windows begin, another uncomfortable sensation washes over you–one that compels you to look behind you at the yawning forest surrounding the mansion.
No doubt about it, remarks some primal feeling inside your gut, <span class="mu-i">something or someone is WATCHING you…</span>
“Hurry up, man!”
Raj’s sudden request nearly makes you lose your balance! Pressing yourself against the wall, you shake off your weird feeling and default back to mild irritation–what’s his problem?!
“I uh… I’d like to climb back inside, dude…” He mutters sheepishly. Oh yea, you nod, that uh… right.
Leading the way around the windows, your view inside is obstructed by thick curtains until you reach an open window! She did it!
Your enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished, however, when you look inside…
Pepper!
>CONTD.
