Miki had been paying polite interest to Michiyo and Kari when she first noticed it. Something seemed to be shifting. She blinked at first, thinking it was something in her eye. Maybe a lash. Then things just got<em>weird.</em>The shifting couldn't just be her, could it? It was getting dark out in ways that were not natural. Then the moon was up, blood-red. She blinked, thinking she was hallucinating the blood seeping from the ground, the eerie moon, and the sense of terror that was raising every hair on her body. A cold sweat was breaking out on her body, chilling her as she began to breathe heavily.<em>I...no. Not again! This can't be happening to...to us?!</em><br/><br/>Her panicked gaze took in the others. They all seemed to be experiencing what she was and that hadn't happened last time. What did it mean? There was no time to ponder though. Creepy shadow<em>things</em>were crawling towards them and Kari was shouting and fighting. It was chaos. Miki had never been able to abide chaos. It violated her orderly, perfectionist mind. She drew closer to Shine and Michiyo, unconsciously obeying Aryn's order. "W-wha...." She had no plan. Nothing to hold onto in this world that defied all logic she'd ever learned. There was only fear.<br/><br/>Her hyperventilation only increased when Kari started to bleed as she fought the...whatever it was. Then Aryn fell and she could hear her heart hammering in her chest. She backed into Michiyo and her wide brown eyes took in the other girl without thinking. She was about to say something when a sound caught her attention.<br/><br/>Gunfire.<br/><br/>It was almost unbelievable. She'd never had any experience with guns save what she saw on Western shows on television but the booming thunder made her hope for just a moment that maybe someone from the Self-Defense Force was miraculously here to save them. Then she looked at where the sound came from and her jaw dropped wide.<em>"K-Kari-senpai?"</em>Then it was madness once more as Kari...or whatever she had become, lashed into the creatures, aided by the beast she had fought.<br/><br/>Miki's whirling mind could make no sense of it. She grabbed Shine's hand and Michiyo's and tried to yank them back towards Aryn. Her only thought was to get to the injured boy and get them out.<em>Away. We have to get away. Get Aryn-senpai help and...and...</em>Her mind blanked past that point. All she had really was a vague hope that the horrible nightmare would end like it had before.