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Okay...I now know a fraction of Zeke's pain. And have come to the conclusion that Slenderman hanging around outside of MY house is not good.

It hurts to speak. I'm drinking Airborne and making tea to try to alleviate the pain.

Thank whatever deity was responsible for getting school closed today. I slept for about two hours. I spent until about 6:00 just laying in my bed trying to mentally defend myself from Him.

During the time I WAS asleep, I was running around in a nightmare. The bad ones. They're back.

It wasn't a forest though. It looked more like...Pripyat. Just this abandoned, decomposing city. I was walking around, looking at everything crumbling around me. And then I smelled something. It smelled like death. I don't know if it was this or the sudden feeling of being watched, but I started running. And I saw them, their shadows. Following me. These people in masks were chasing me. I thought I was outrunning them, but in reality they were corralling me into a corner. I realized this too late as they were closing in. I turned around...and there He was. A tentacle wrapped around my mouth. I tried to scream.

And then I woke up.

When I heard somebody else awake in the house, I decided it was safe to get out of bed. Both schools had been closed. My throat hurt. I drank some Airborne, and then went back to bed to try and get more sleep.

And now I'm here. I'm tired, I'm sick, I'm annoyed, and I'm scared. I can't lie. I don't think he has any problem with getting close to the house. I think he's trying to give me a false sense of security.

I don't fear the "ghosts" anymore. Because I know that's not what's really waiting for me in the dark. I know you're there now. You did it, Slenderman. I'm scared. But I'm also angry. And I won't let you control me like you do Seth.

Edit: I almost forgot. I have some more stuff to catch up on it seems. Ava's blog, for one. And apparently Robert is still in action. I missed all of that.

Status

I thought it might be helpful to any others to give a full update on what exactly is going on with my crew.

Me: Nightmares, but less of them now - standard running panicked in a forest, evolved into actually seeing him in them. Paranoia. Have spotted him in a photograph of the woods down the street. Keeping an eye on all vantage points in the house. Have an Operator symbol taped to my room's window. "Disturbing coincidences" have slowed. I'm either fully attributing them to him and therefore am not specifically looking for them, or the number of strange incidents themselves has dropped. Confused about his intentions.

Seth: In more trouble than I initially thought. Has full on nightmares. Has a journal partially filled with strange doodles and the general messages. Also has a slight cough. May or may not be losing time. I suspect he is becoming Hallowed, though he was doing much better with Skyler around. But she's gone back home for the week. Will monitor as closely as possible.

Skyler: Don't know much and is hard to gauge, but is in less trouble than Seth. May be the least bothered, even less than me right now. She was patrolling windows for Seth, not out of her own fear.

Sammi: Possibly has the most snarky/angry attitude towards him. He now appears in her night terrors, but she fights. Woke up to her mom screaming about something this morning. Incident might be related. She's trying to track him through her photography. I'm fairly certain this means he's also stalking around outside her house.

Casey: Is also terrified. (I'm not gonna lie, I'm thoroughly frightened by all of this too.) But has taken my tips on trying to stay upbeat. Wanders the living rooms and kitchen by daylight cautiously. Avoids them as much as possible by night. Has stopped taking pictures for the time being. Also has nightmares.

Skye: Whether she wants to be included or not, I believe her case is relevant. Developed a cough that has progressively gotten worse. Was not at school today. Has become more irritable. Went from being annoyed by Seth and I and our discussions, then got blatantly furious about it. It could just be that she gets angry about things that she doesn't like and she might possibly have what Aiden had. But I'm considering her anyways.

I think that's everything. I still don't see him in the window behind me. I will definitely alert you when that happens. Because despite my best efforts, I'll probably be screaming about it.

I'm going to go try to offer input on other blogs.

I don't like my dreams...

...but I don't feel like talking about the ones I've had as of late. Ugh...

Meant to update earlier, but was still have an anger/anxiety attack because of BPA. Cannot wait for Thursday to happen and just be over with.

Yeah. Still can't believe they put it on a THURSDAY. Awesome. That's really nice of them.

[sigh]

The animation is almost done. I'd show you, except that in my opinion it sucks too much (it's still decent for our first one ever) and I have no readers anyways. I have to fix some transitions and edit the rest of the audio. The other two girls have been assigned the task of explaining exactly how this is superhero related. Because I said weeks ago what it was supposed to be about (in their defense I didn't really press the fact). But there's metaphors all over the place in it. So I don't know if the judges will like a metaphorical explanation, but they're gonna have to suck it up.

Annnd...I have to make note cards of my speech. Good thing about this is that there are like...three judges at the most. So only a few people get to see us scramble to form a metaphorical explanation for the video and watch me nervously talk about the 1993 Flood.

I'm rambling. That has nothing to do with anything...only me venting.

I guess what I SHOULD talk about is...well...Skye watched Marble Hornets.



...and thought it was dumb.

Sammi, on the other hand, was the unfortunate victim of Seth's craze over it. Which is why she's been so quiet. She's terrified. Apparently she can't sleep. She's having nightmares. Seth feels remorse, but doesn't really remember telling Sammi to watch them.
This accompanied with my dreams.
I don't like it. I feel uncomfortable.
Although...my case could just be from stress.

Ah well...still wondering what was up with the black birds and the fish. I think I'll go check that out now, in case I missed an update.

EDIT: HAH! That kinda cheered me up. Was reading comments on an article about the birds and found this: "I bet Sam and Dean Winchester would have the explanation..."
I want this person to be my new best friend.