Psychic Singularity Ch 06

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Grenda paced the length of the community center, hands running over
her weapon. Her mind kept going back to the last near-apocalypse they’d
all been involved in, back when she was still a child and unable to do
anything to help the girl and her brother who’d been two of the only
ones to accept her as she was, without trying to change something about
her, and the ‘incident’, as it was being called, of a few months ago.

If she never had to see that again…if Mabel was like a sister to
her, then demon or not, Dipper was like an annoying, slightly bratty
brother, and she still wanted to beat heads in for what they’d done to
him. And that was before she started in on them for the trauma to her
animals.

Across the room, her husband was calming down a couple who had
started to panic about being trapped in the community center. Her kids
(and wasn’t that amazing, still, that she had kids, the one who’d
thought once she’d never be able to have kids at all, not even adopted)
were sticking close to the Ramirez Seven.

Candy had set up shop in the small balcony that surrounded this part
of the community center, near a window, where she could keep a lookout.

It may have been deceptive, but it still felt pretty safe in here,
inside the center. Thankfully there was food down in the kitchens (there
had been some kind of event planned for what should have been the next
day, and after all the things that went on in Gravity Falls, well, right
now they were keeping places like this stocked in case of
emergencies…though no one had ever expected an emergency like this) as
it was getting close to dinnertime.

At least, Grenda thought it was getting close to dinnertime. Time was
behaving oddly right now, as the clock above the door had at once point
been ticking away faster than any clock she’d ever seen, and was now
running backwards.

She knew she wasn’t hungry, and her kids weren’t complaining about it
yet. Usually Hansel, at least, wasn’t shy about letting others know
when he was hungry.

Grenda passed by a small, curtained alcove as she continued her
patrol around the room, and paused at the tiny noise she thought she
heard from behind the curtain.

For a second, she was tempted to keep moving, but she hadn’t made it
this far in Gravity Falls by not paying attention to things.

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