C-CAD4-025
Barista: Sarah Blackwood
Date: Dec-29-2019
Receipt: C-CAD4-025
Subject: Business as Usual
Still no word from Brent Hearse. Probably for the best. Never met him personally, but from what I’ve heard? He was into some real ugly work. I get that ██████ ████’█ ██████—███ ████ ████ ████, █████? Oh well, in any case, there are still some tests we can do without Hearse’s insights. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from all of this? Blood is a storyteller, and today, it decided to scream.
We ran some cross-tests between Julia and Katherine. The idea was simple: introduce a small sample of Julia’s blood to Katherine and see what happens. ███ ████ ████████ ███ ██████ ██████ █████ ██ ███ ██ █████ ███ ███ █████ ██ ██ ████’█ █████ ██ ████ ███ ███. ███ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ██ █████████ █████ ██████ ███████ ███ ████ ███ ████ ████ █████’█ █████. Well. What happened was a lot.
Katherine didn’t just react to Julia’s blood—she drowned in it.
The moment she consumed the sample, her entire body seized. She gasped, like she’d been dropped into ice water. Her whole body seized, fingers digging into her chest. Then came the weird part—she sobbed. No pain, no fear. Just raw, gut-wrenching grief.
She muttered fragments of words, half-thoughts spilling out between ragged breaths. Names we didn’t recognize. Places Julia had never been. Memories that weren’t hers.
Julia, for her part, was shaken and confused. None of what Katherine was experiencing matched anything Julia could recall from her own past. These weren’t her emotions. At least, not ones she was aware of.
So… what the hell did we just uncover?
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And Katherine? She came back to herself after a few minutes, dazed but unharmed—physically, at least. Mentally? She looked like she’d just walked through someone else’s funeral. I guess the good news is Jenny’s grounding techniques seem to be working.
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“Unraveled, isolated, and exposed.”
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