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[clussy]

(Eddie had debated on whether or not to share this piece of information. But what the natives had said weighed on him heavily, and he felt like if he didn't and something were to happen...

He wasn't so sure he could live with that guilt.)

I asked one of the natives if bad things from our homes could come to this place. They said it was possible.

maybe some of you will think I'm crazy. Or the adults won't believe it. The adults in our town didn't believe anything and they didn't want to pay attention to what was happening. they didn't care about all the missing kids. I don't care if you believe it or not. some stuff exists whether or not people want to believe it does. me and my friends took care of it before and we'll do it again if we have to. we made that promise.

our town had this fucked up evil in it. and im not talking hellfire church-evil stuff either. I'm talking like...fear. real fear. maybe even the thing that made Fear

IT knew what you were afraid of. no, not your 'kind of' fears like thinking spiders are gross. i mean the kind of fears you dont even tell your best bud about. the kind of fears you don't even tell YOURSELF about cause the shame's so bad. IT knew you and IT fed off those fears. i guess it liked how kids tasted best when they died in terror

IT ate them too. im not saying it like sucked out their soul. no. IT would

(Eddie has to stop here. To breathe. To focus. He touches his own arm, closes his eyes, and counts.)

i cant explain how you'll know when you'll see IT
you'll feel
like you have to go towards something real bad, real scary
you'll know you shouldn't but you HAVE to...and maybe you'll be lucky like we were
like i was. and be able to get away when the fear gets bad enough.

IT takes the shape of a clown the most when ITS just existing normally. IT only changes when its hunting. IT can come through pictures or sinks or anything. i dont know what ITs limits even were

sometimes IT called ITself Pennywise the Dancing Clown. IT told me its name was Bob Gray when IT talked to me. And sometimes you could hear that carnival sorta music.Sometimes it'd lure you in with the smell of popcorn. IT sometimes had balloons. A lot of balloons. I don't know. It lived in the sewers and

I want to say we beat IT for good but we didn't. i'm not sure if IT can BE beaten.

I dont know if IT'll ever show up here
but don't trust things to be what they seem. don't.

and maybe realize the monsters you know might come here too. please be careful.

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[morphogenia]

[She's ready with a whole lecture about how an asthma attack does not make him a loser when she reads the rest of that. It stings badly. Kamala has never really been alone like this before. She had Nakia and then Bruno. She's made a bunch of other friends along the way with more even to come. Here she's just dumb kid to be pitied by the adults. She swallows past the lump in her throat to reply.]

Yeah, I could use some friends. It's hard to make them without school, I guess. I don't know anyone here really. Plus it'd be a pretty awesome to be friends with someone that brave!! Don't let your lung problems get you down! >( Even if Captain America used to have those kind of problems and no one called him a loser... except for those people who bullied him, but they all suck so much that no one remembers them!!!!!!!

My name is Kamala by the way! What's your name?

[clussy]

(Eddie's really never been alone either. Except a couple times- but those had been real bad times in his life, times he didn't like thinking about. With this girl's generosity, it felt right to offer her that friendship. It was sincere too. She seemed like the kind of person he would want as a friend.)

I never had a lot of friends. Especially at school. But now you know some people here and I think people here are a little nicer.

Wait are you calling ME brave??? trust me. out of my group i am EASILY the biggest coward

Captain America used to get bullied??? No way. That's. HE'S HUGE

I'm Eddie! It's nice to meet you Kamala. OR I guess talk to you?? What do you look like so I know if I see you in person?

[morphogenia]

That's true. It didn't take long for them to welcome me. But, okay back to you! FACING SOMETHING THAT'S WORSE THAN FEAR IS TOTALLY BRAVE. Besides, it's not a contest. You can all be brave so don't knock yourself like that!! I mean even talking about what happened to you guys is brave, I think.

Now to Captain America: yep! Back when he was all tiny and fighting bullies in Brooklyn people bullied him for like everything. How he looked, who his friend was, his hobbies, etc etc.

Finally about me... uh okay. Well I have brown hair, eyes, skin... I have long-ish wavy brown hair too. I'm also petite! What do you look like?