[you know you feel too much like home, dear, and i've got to teach myself goodbye]

[majorlyugh]

WHO: Major Lilywhite
WHERE: Near the fountain
WHEN: Mid-March
OPEN TO: OTA
WARNINGS: N/A

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It happens without any sort of warning, suddenly and all at once. Major sees the fountain, makes the right to head towards the Inn, blinks, and --

She's there. In her apartment, the one she shares with Peyton. He can only see her profile, her eyes intently focused on finding something in the fridge - leftover brains, probably, he thinks to himself - and he feels like his heart may just burst out of his chest. He doesn't say anything, not wanting to ruin the chance to get to watch her like this, after going so many months without even a glimpse of her face.

But .. wait. Something's not right here. What happened to the village? Had it all been a weird hallucination? A waking dream? An overactive and out of control imagination? It had all felt so real, and even Ravi had been there.

As he takes another step forward, this time intent on breaking the silence, he blinks and the world around him has changed again, this one familiar in a much more disheartening way.

The fountain at his back, the wooden inn door in front of him. He sucks in a breath to try and steady himself, feeling as though the ground beneath his feet has been pulled out from under him like some cheap rug. He can't make sense of any of it, and it reminds him of how he felt when he first started to suspect the existence of zombies. He'd checked himself into a mental hospital back then, a residential facility. There's nothing like that here, he knows.

What's the next best thing? Shout about it.

"LIV?" he screams, whirling on his heel and glancing at everything around him. "LIV? WHERE ARE YOU?"