The Entity

Level 2

As sad as Penny and Carrie were themselves over the loss of someone they would consider a friend, Nicole and Richard clearly felt what they did a hundredfold right now.

Neighbors were already coming around to the Watterson house and the hole on the side to see what was going on now and why their backyards were destroyed in some cases.

"You... probably want some time alone right now", Carrie started, not knowing what to say as she wasn't the best at comfort.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US PFAHLIUS RETURNED EARLIER!?", Nicole yelled at her, awakening that fear inside Carrie again despite her knowing that the women couldn't do anything to her physically.

"I-", Carrie tried, full of regret over not acting differently about the whole situation and being able to prevent it.

"GET OUT!", Nicole just screamed before turning back to comforting Richard as best as she could.

Carrie sadly looked over to Penny who shapeshifted back into her normal form and also had tears in her eyes now, nodding at the ghost.

"I'm sorry.", she could only say in a regretful whisper before grabbing Penny and teleporting the both of them away.

Carrie decided to teleport both her and Penny over to the attic of their house so they could have some time for themselves.

Carrie turned around, unable to hold it in anymore as tears started to form in her eyes as well now.

"Carrie?", Penny asked, worried about the ghost, as she never saw her cry before. She wasn't even sure if she was capable of doing that at all.

"It's my fault! IT'S ALL MY FAULT! If I hadn't missed the signs, if I hadn't let Anais walk off on her own-", she started to ramble.

"No, it's not your fault! Nobody could've predicted something like that!", Penny reassured her.

"You don't understand. I was the one who kicked things off by revealing Pfahlius' location. I-", Carrie tried to explain.

"Hey, stop that!", Penny interrupted her.

"I know that you feel awful about inadvertently playing a part in it but right now is the wrong time for self-pity. Pfahlius is still out there and has to be stopped as quickly as possible. You're probably our best bet for finding him so I need you to focus on that. Darwin and Anais would've wanted that."

Carrie looked at her for a moment before wiping the tears of her eyes.

"You're right. We have to make sure he won't kill anyone else. We'll find him and then he will pay for what he did to Idaho and Anais ten times over!", Carrie answered with newfound determination.

"Right, Idaho. I can't believe he is dead too.", Penny remembered, shaking her head at it all.

"His parents probably don't know yet. Maybe we should tell them first.", she added.

"I hate to say it, but I think they have to wait. As you said, we can't waste one more second in doing anything else but hunting down Pfahlius before there will be any more deaths.", Carrie suggested.

"I guess Mrs. Watterson would like to have a 'word' with this Pfahlius too. But we better leave them out of it now and give them time to properly grieve.", Penny concluded.

"Exactly. It's up to us for now. But how in the world are we going to find him? We don't even know where he is. Or Anais' body for that matter.", Carrie realized.

"Maybe we can get help from someone who can hack into her phone and retrace where the message was sent from.", Penny replied.

"But who?", Carrie wondered.