Seria had nearly completed a lap of the camp when a voice that she somehow knew called out to her.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Seria! It's a good thing you're here. I was beginning to wonder if I had come to the wrong place."</span>Seria turned, her eyes widening as she took in the sight of a boy, well man now, she hadnâ€™t seen in years. Somehow in the blink of an eye the boy she remembered had grown into a man, his once unruly hair that had insisted on standing on end was now somewhat neater. She remembered him as hyper generally happy kid, but now he looked more calmâ€¦ which she assumed came with age, but still part of her was sad to see that the spastic side that had always made her laugh was gone now. She wagered the others would be much the same. After all they were all grown now and the time always came when one needed to grow up and get on with life.<br/><br/>"Alex." she breathed, still staring at him. It was still a shock to see him. More so given that his name had only just returned to her mind. Realizing she must look like a total moron, she composed her features and smiled. Anything was better than gaping at him like a fool. Luckily, she didn't have to say anything because Alex started speaking.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"> "Hey! Uh, maybe we can head over to the fire pit. The farther in this place we go the stranger itâ€™s sure to get.""</span>he seemed hesitant, like there was something he didn't want to mention. Seria smiled slightly wondering if maybe she wasn't the only one who had a strange feeling about this.<br/><br/>"Yes, sounds like a good plan." Seria turned and started to follow him towards the fire pit the crunch of the ground under her combat boots was somehow daunting, she found her lips moving without her bidding asking a classic question that at the very least broke the silence they had settled into. â€œSo Alex... how have you been?" the question sounded idle and innocent even to her ears, she looked up at him out of the corner eye watching his reaction.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"> "I've been good I suppose. Just trying to figure out what the hell's been goin' on here lately. You?"</span><br/><br/>"Pretty much the same... When that letter came this morning...it was so strange." Her thoughts turned back to this morning, how could one simply forget a summer like the one they had shared that year? Confusion was primary in her mind as she thought about it, sure occasionally she had thought about how awesome that summer had been. But she had never gathered memories, just like she remembered vague names but not anything real. How had she not been curious about that? She frowned as she thought about it, unable to understand how she could forget so much, and then have it all brought back a simple piece of paper. Something wasn't adding up here.<br/><br/>"You're tellin' me...I don't know about you, but I picked it up and...I sort of went blank." Seria saw a flicker of the kid she had known, she sensed something was missing from his statement, something in the way he hesitated made it clear, she glanced at him quickly wondering what had happened to him. She decided against pressing the issue, it didn't exactly matter now anyway. But she did wonder if each letter had been different, what Alex described was different from what had happened to her. She had gotten images sure, but there had been text in her letter. Alex hadn't mentioned anything about text.<br/><br/>"Yeah...just reading it reminded me of so much. It was strange." Seria admitted this readily, she didn't admit that they had been more like someone unlocking a door and light pouring out of it, flashbacks flooding her mind like another persons life. Reminding her of something that she had somehow forgotten.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">"We're almost there."</span>He said and she nodded smiling again even as her eyes scanned the tree line around them, looking for potential threats she didn't see anything but the apprehension in her gut wouldn't dissipate. The scar on her right arm was prickling as if trying to tell her something. Absently she ran her fingers over it with her left hand, and now the stone seemed to be shinning.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">What in the hellâ€¦?</span>she thought staring at the stone for a moment before dropping it back to her side. The two of them came to a halt around the pit with the others. She looked around at each of them, seeing how much each had grown and changed over the years.<span style="font-style: italic">How did we fall out of touch?</span>she wondered.<br/><br/>â€œEphyra, Jon, Nyah.â€ She nodded to each of them making eye contact for a brief moment. While it would seem she was greeting them but she was confirming that she remembered each of them, their namesâ€¦ that had only just come back to her, seemed so concrete now. She knew them. â€œItâ€™s been a long time.â€ Even though she smiled her eyes scanned the area around her still wondering where this uneasy sensation was coming from.