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[handcuff]

Animals have far more sensitivity to their surroundings than humans do, they can sense changes in the environment that we can't. Canaries in coal mines. domesticated pets warning their owners of natural disasters to come. Survival of the fittest. "Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce." ... the point being that when things start going wrong, we're usually the last ones to notice.

... by the way, I heard that there were a lot of freak animal attacks last month. [ that, and he volunteers at an animal shelter. ] I can pretty much guess that's not unrelated to whatever all of this is about. [ although, to be sure, the details are still rather hazy for him. he can only make inferences and guesses at this point, though his are more or less in the right direction, at the very least.

and now for something completely different: ]

there's an animal following me around when I'm not in public places. a bird. I don't really know why ...

[ he won't directly come out and ask for it, but this is his way of soliciting advice on what to do about it. ]

Comments

[deathcough]

Put some ketchup on it. Ketchup makes everything taste better.

So how long ago did these numbers pop in your head? Most people seemed to get it around the same time or smth and then it exploded out from there.

[handcuff]

That's definitely not true.

[ and he's probably thinking about it too literally. ]

About a week and a half ago ... what about you?

[deathcough]

Forever ago. Like, I think a month or two? I didn't realize it at first though and I put off doing anything with the numbers for forever.

I thought this was some internet scam or cult or something. Guess it's a little ore real than I first thought tho. You should probably just run while you can.

[handcuff]

What, because of some rumors about wolves or something like that ?

I'm not scared of animals.
or any humans, for that matter, either.

[deathcough]

Yeah, sure you keep saying that when you're faced with a bunch of werewolves.

Also I meant more "run before the crazy infects you too." But it might be too late.

[handcuff]

Panicking won't help when faced with a bunch of werewolves either. if a person gets mauled or killed, it's because they were too dumb to think about how to get out of the situation properly.

[ see: his above definition of "survival of the fittest". ]

You mean the memories and things.
I think it is too late for that.