[Halloween Special 2024.] She wants to visit the Ferris wheel.

There’s a small smile stretching her lips as she thinks. “Well, let’s wait for my replacement to get here, and when they take my place, we can walk around? Maybe find the others…?”

There’s a hint of **** when she mentions the others. Clearly, she hopes you won’t. It isn’t long before Mikko’s replacement comes to take her place. It’s a girl, probably 16, maybe a little younger. She’s dressed up like a witch, complete with pointed and curl-toed shoes, dressed in black. There’s a brief exchange, with a handful of nervous glances from the teenage girl in your direction. However, when Mikko’s free to go, she joins you.

You grab your walkie-talkie and have everyone do a report, and every team answers, including Scarlet, who is still within your eyesight. She waves at you in a gesture to say you’re free to go.

The little Fox Vampire comes around and wraps her arm around yours. She looks up at you, her eyes, now crimson red, stare up at you. “I really, really want to go up on the Ferris wheel. Will mmmmasster take me there?”

You look around, noticing that there’s no one looking at you. Still, you have a feeling that a few people are looking at the security contractor with the fox girl wrapped around you. It’s a leisurely and warm stroll through the park as the smells of and sounds of the pitched amusement park. On the edge of the amusement park is the desired Ferris wheel.

Around the park are a few other staff members dressed up; the theme of the “Afterlife” is very clear in how the people are dressed up. It builds an almost surreal atmosphere as some even play their roles. Screeching ghouls, mumbling zombies, seductive witches, slutty nurses. If you were a regular person living an everyday life, you would have made the time to visit this more than once.

Eventually, you’re in line for the Ferris wheel, where you make generous small talk and happy remarks. In her new uniform, Mikko seems much more confident as she enters her thoughts. There’s a lot on MIkko’s mind, stuff you wouldn’t have thought if this was when you first met her… She’s happy. And you know she’s earned this.

An hour passes, and then another… It flies by, and you are getting seated on the Ferris well before you know it. Across from you is the Vamp-Fox. On one side is the town glittering with rides, vendors, and entertainment. On the other hand, the desert is inky in the pale moonlight as nightlife stirs in its environment. The odd contrast is romantic in every sense you can think of.

You glance up at Mikko as she fixates on the brighter side of things… Literally, the park's light highlights her unnatural features, along with the others, so much like her sister but also entirely different. She looks over and lifts an eyebrow. “What is it, Warren?” She blinks and lowers her head. “I meant to say ‘master.”