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𝑂𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔
𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡
𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒, 𝑡𝑤𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒, 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡
𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠
𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐞, 𝐎𝐰𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐚
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The teens all wake up groggy and disorientated. Luna wakes up not remembering falling asleep and only to find herself in the clothes she had changed into before they went to the warehouse. It was odd since the brunette teen would always change clothes before sleeping and if not at least she would take off her shoes.

When Luna exits her room she doesn't notice that one of the walls no longer had her painting but she does notice the jazz-like music playing around the house. Luna walks over to where Karolina, Nico, Molly, and Gert were standing only to hear Gert announce, "Guys, all of the Didion is gone from my shelves."

No one replies as they look out of the balcony and see a themed party going on downstairs. Luna looks down at the men wearing a tux, waiters walking around with trays, women in beaded flapper dresses, and white balloons spread out on the floor. Without thinking Luna mumbles, "What the stars"

"What fresh hell is this?" Gert asks taking in the event downstairs just like the rest of the teens, "Okay, I don't know if this is some kind of dream or mass hallucination, but I really need a minute to process."

"I'm a little hazy as to how we got home last night," Nico states making everyone look at each other not having an answer they could back up with 100% certainty

"We drove, right?" Karolina asks before she shakes her head "Not that I remember, but that makes sense."

"The Hostel looks so weird." Molly states and she wasn't wrong, not only was there strangers downstairs but there were too many vines wrapped around every pillar in the mansion "And who are all these people?"

"Chase?" Luna mumbles spotting Chase in the crowd and so she's the first one to walk towards the staircase everyone following her as they make their way towards Chase

"Guys, I've been reading about this. I think we're suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning." Chase worriedly states as they all stand on the staircase

"That would make us dead," Gert states with certainty making Luna shrug her shoulders believing Gert in her knowledge of carbon monoxide poisoning

"And this is Purgatory?" Molly asks making everyone look towards the party

"No" Luna strongly states only for her confidence waiver when saying, "...No"

"Maybe we're back in Jonah's Algorithm," Chase suggests

Karolina having experience with the Algorithm says, "Doesn't feel like that."

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