Oh god that's a terrifying thought, but as far as I know it's the real her. She even has the same scar on her side from when she got her appendix removed in surgery a few years ago. If someone was able to like make a clone of her or something than they did an immaculate job of it.

Honestly I was paranoid of that happening to every time I looked in the back seat when we were driving away. Both Amelia and Natasha have since said they were the only ones in the car that night, so I don't think there's any others. However, considering our jumbled senses and their apparent trance-like states we probably are not the most reliable witnesses unfortunately. As of now though, there is no evidence that anyone else was with them.

That's kinda what I was thinking, but I have no history of psychosis and neither does Amelia or Natasha. I guess maybe the terror could've induced something like that, but it just struck me so suddenly it just doesn't seem to fully line up.

We definitely are planning on doing that, maybe even get prescribed some meds to prevent these damn nightmares hopefully. I think the experience definitely took a toll on all our psyches, and I dearly hope it's not permanent.

Interesting I've never actually heard of these and here I thought I was relatively well-versed in cryptids. Alot of this does seem to line up which on the one hand brings me a bit of relief knowing that maybe someone has information on these things, but on the other it terrifies me with the thought that more may be out there. The idea of a predator for humanity which can alter it's appearance and mimic voices seems to explain a lot of this, but I can't help but feel it's only part of the puzzle. Do Fleshgaits normally have mind-altering capabilities like that? What really terrifies me is that this thing- whatever it was didn't even have to touch me to discombobulate me like that. It's like me just being near it fucked with my mental faculties to a level I've never felt before. Maybe it was just some result of tremendous fear that made me feel that way, but it just felt so wrong, and that's the only word I can think to describe it with.