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[maoa]

[ she doesn't envy her position. all of this feels awful.

it's why she decides to tell cellar everything. ]

i'm the daughter of someone who was a serial killer. he and his friend killed his girlfriend's mom and a bunch of their friends, centering it around her. the murders went down before i was born but my mom kept the fact that he was my dad a secret. over the years there were a few people who targeted the same people who survived the first murders. there were movies that were made about them that gained a following.

my boyfriend someone inserted themselves into my life because he found out who my father was. he and my sister's best friend hooked up. they planned to set up the murders they committed to make it look like i'd done it all. then his family tried to do the same thing half a year later.

in both cases all the evidence pointed to me. there were a lot of people who thought i'd done it and set them up. so i don't like the idea of going after somebody just because the evidence lines up.

[longlegs]

jesus
i'm so sorry, sam
that's psychotic

[ She can't even imagine. Someone like Sam going through that with her family, with people she must have thought she could trust, only to have the world turned against her. It's a fucking nightmare. ]

[maoa]

[ it was. it's still something she's working through. or had been, until she'd been brought to the mansion. and then followed the people here. ]

i'm okay. i lived. so did my sister.

[ she's still not sure about mindy, chad, or gale. she hopes they did. ]

for a really long time i stayed away. i wanted to keep her safe. from me.

[longlegs]

it must have been really hard to stay away

was she happy to see you again? despite everything?

[maoa]

eventually. but she was angry, too, for a while. our - we don’t have the greatest mom.

[longlegs]

sorry. i'm glad you had each other.

i haven't seen my family in a while
i mean, before i even came here

[maoa]

i’m sorry to hear.
unless that’s for the best, but I’m still sorry for it in that case.

[longlegs]

it's part of the contract i'm in
i can still go see them but i'm kind of not supposed to
and they forget me while i'm gone
i think that's to make sure they don't go looking for me or something

[maoa]

i guess that’s smart of them.
really fucked up thing to do to you, though.

[longlegs]

it happens to all of us in the organization
to make it easier for our families too, i guess
that way they don't have to miss us

[ That's one way to cope. ]

at least i could still go see them every now and then, you know?
not much we can do about that here

[maoa]

yeah.
i miss tara. but i wouldn’t want her here.

the woods tried tricking me into drowning by showing her to me.

[longlegs]

you too?
i mean, it didn't happen to me
it happened to teddie
i had to pull him out

[maoa]

geez. i wonder how many others.
although i guess it doesn’t matter as much at this point.

[longlegs]

not unless we all go back the same way, i guess

are you going back? whenever we manage to get out of this place?

[maoa]

[ god, that’s the question, isn’t it? there’s a long break between messages. ]

if we still can’t get home and there’s enough people who decide to return?
yeah, i think so.

[longlegs]

i'm going to return to saltburn
even if i have to do it alone
i can't leave theo by himself anymore

[ read: can't stay away from him. ]