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The Wookiegetlucky Swamp, Louisiana.
A swamp like any other swamp but it's not. This swamp just happen to be a nexus of realities & possible futures. Normally you don't find many people just wandering around but today you would. These people are a long way from home & happen to following a man who was searching out something, something he won't tell them what it is but must be there for some reason.
They haven't been walking around in a clump, they are in a more drawn out in an almost single file line.
"So, what's up?" Catherine asked as she walk up beside one of her fellow walking companions.
"Uh.. what?" Jane said. She had been lost in thought.
"You look like you got something on your mind. You know besides the normal stuff."
"Oh, nothing. It's just Ronnie." Jane said giving the man in front of her a odd look.
Catherine looks at him & then back at Jane. "What about him?"
"Oh. I don't know. He just.. seems different. Somehow. He's just not the guy I once knew."
"How so?" Catherine said resisting the urge to scratch that itch on her left ankle.
"It's just that in the last few.. oh. I don't know. For sometime he's seemed different. Like something about him has changed. Like he was one guy & now he's someone else."
"You think Spooky pulled the wrong guy out of the water?"
"No. He was different before that. Plus, I think we would have been tipped off that it wasn't our Ronnie."
"He was wearing different clothes?" Catherine said in a sing song manner.
"Well, he explained that."
"Ok. But, could be a lie. How do you know were all the same people you entered into the swamp with? How you do know you were sent back to the right dimension? All swamps kind of look a like. How do you know that once we leave this swamp that the outer world isn't ruled over by giant toads or Paris Hilton? Or giant toad Paris Hiltons'?"
"Now I think your getting a little paranoid." Jane said bluntly.
"I may have to be."
"Plus, I think Mr. Spooky would be a little more careful then just randomly pulling people out."
Catherine didn't reply, just gave her a look which made Jane look at Mr. Spooky. He was currently appeared to be talking to himself.
"I think I may have answer to your Ronnie problem." Catherine said. Jane stopped looking over Spooky, then Catherine said "Who's new to the group?"
"What?"
"Who's new to the group?"
Jane looked around. There was Mr. Spooky up front, a few feet behind him was Ronnie with Little cat, another couple of feet back was her & Catherine. Pulling up the rear was Chad & his accordion.
"No one."
Catherine made a buzzer noise & said "Wrong! When you met Ronnie, there was only 2: Him & Chad. 3 if you count Little & I guess 4 if you count Chad's accordion."
"Chad didn't have his accordion when I meet him. But, Little Cat was there." Jane interrupted.
"Interesting. But, getting back to the point. Over time there have been additions to the group. Mainly Me & Creepy over there. We have changed the dynamic of the group. By changing that the original players changed as a result."
Jane just looked at Catherine. She wasn't liking it. "What?"
"I didn't know you were this introspective."
"I can be, at times. Now before you wonder if I'm actually the real Catherine, ask yourself this: when was the last time we had a conversation like this?"
Jane thought for a moment & then said. "I don't know."
"Ok."
There are a few minutes of silence. Then, Jane asked "How do you think you've changed the group?"
"Chad for the Better & Ronnie probably for the Worse. I doubt I've had much effect on the Little Cat & the Accordion."
"Why for the worse with Ronnie?"
"I keep on having people telling me Ronnie is this fun loving, always joking, super happy kind of guy."
"Which he is."
"But... I don't get that. That's probably because I don't think he likes me. So, I get the prickly side of him. The Jerky side."
"No, you don't."
"Yes, I do. Maybe you don't see it or hear it. But, I do. I know how he looks at me. I partly feel that I've somehow soured the goodness in him." Catherine said sadly. "I've every so often feel that things would be better if I wasn't around. He likes you, He likes Chad, He likes Little Cat. Not sure about Mr. Spooky. But, I bet he likes him more then he does me."
"Don't think that way."
Catherine gave a weak smile to Jane. Before she could due anything else, the two women were stopped by bumping into Ronnie. He shot her an unkind look.
Just then Chad, who had been lost in his own thoughts, bumped into the group. He then became aware of what was happening:They were stopped because Mr. Spooky had stopped & was looking over a new section of the swamp. One that was darker then the rest, the trees that grew up out of the water had grown up to form a canopy that blocked out most of the sunlight. The stretch of land they had been walking on had continued on but it was hard to see where it went.
"So, are we going on or not?" Ronnie asked.
Mr. Spooky turned around to face the group.
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TO BE CONTINUED....
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