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>“We should get going” Moonie says.  
>“You intend to go to the bell?” Paradise asks.  
>Everypony else files out of the store.  
>“Is there some reason we shouldn’t?” Moonie asks.  
>Troubled looks form on the faces of your new companions.  
>“Well… It is the only thing we can really investigate but…” Homesick answers.  
>She looks to Paradise.  
>“Before we met Floor here, we were actually trailing the bell, we kept it in our sight for quite some time…” Paradise starts to explain.  
>“Is there something dangerous about it?” Taku asks.  
>“We we’re never really sure, we never gave them a chance to find out…” Paradise continues.  
“The first time was an accident… but every other time after that… it was just too easy…”  
>Moonie and Taku grow visibly unnerved.  
>Paradise starts walking towards the bell.  
>“It’s probably best we get it over with, talking about it is just going to make it more difficult.”  
>The rest of you look at each other before following.  
>Moonie rushes to catch up to Paradise.  
>After a while of walking Paradise and Moonie start talking to one another.  
>“Floor, do you know what she was talking about earlier?”  
>Taku inquires with a scared look on her face.  
>“She isn’t talking about killing other p-po-”  
>“No, at least… I don’t think they are…” you answer.  
>“You saw them?!”  
>“You did too apparently”  
>Taku looks confused.  
>“Remember that sheet we found?”  
>“Yeah..?”  
>“Apparently that was a corpse.”  
>“Huh…”  
>Taku seems to be thinking.  
>“You know…” Taku starts “So far most of the creature we seem to have encountered are dangerous to us… is it possible there are creatures that we are the danger to?”  
>You hadn’t considered that idea.  
>In video games and movies with end of civilization scenarios similar to this the monsters were always at the top of the food chain.  
>The idea that some of these creatures may view you as a monster is disconcerting  
>Do they view one another as monsters? That one that spoke did eat the remains of one you had killed…
 
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