Katie flew while holding some lavender, heading towards Amelia's grave. Katie decided to fly to Joey's place after leaving the lavender at Amelia's grave. She saw the shack and landed before shifting human.

"Thought I hear y'all out here," Katie petted Blu, seeing as he had stayed with Joey that entire cycle. Joey continued his conversation with Jay.

"You can come in ya'know," Jay looked a bit uncomfortable.

"Ah, thanks," Jay said before entering,"...Feral frenzy?"

"Um, that thing I do......with the speed. The entity gave it to us...we draw blood and we can move really fast for a while, but like, it runs on bloodlust. It's like a high, coming down is never fun though."

"Ah," Jay nodded.

"Is that why you threw this at me?" Katie held up the knife.

"You keep mentioning this...'entity'. What happened to you? Before you came here? It's okay if you don't wanna say! But from what you've said before, it sounds similar? In a way to our current situation at least"

"It was, it really was. Basically, this isn't the only killing loop I've been in, it's the first time I've ever been prey though"

"Oh...honey..."

"Fine, ignore me then," Katie threw the knife at Joey's feet, sticking it in the ground,"bye ya pineapple bastard." Katie went to leave the shack.

"Katie wait, I was talking. Yes, it's why I threw the knife...also why are you calling me pineapple bastard?" Ezra finally found the shack and saw Katie starting to leave the shack.

"Katie?" Katie looked over her shoulder at Joey and tapped her nose. She then looked at Ezra.

" Hey you" Jay watched Katie leave and sat down.

"What?"

"Okay, basically......there's this creature, we called it the entity. It feeds on emotions, usually hope, but it seems to love despair and bloodlust just as much. It kidnapped people, pulled them into its own dimension. It created killing grounds based on the memories of the people it brought in. It took people who killed before and made them kill for it, sacrificing innocent people it dragged in. If they escaped? It got fed. If they didn't? It got fed. Lots of serial killers and what have you, but I never figured out why it took us. Before it took us, we'd only killed one person between the four of us," Jay sat and listened calmly to Joey, worry clear on her face. Ezra was a bit confused at what Joey was saying, but she focused on Katie for the moment and smiled.

"What's goin' on?"

"I got ignored and Joey is having a heart to heart with Jay bout his own personal demon"

"Personal......demon?"

"His version of your IT" Ezra frowned at this.

"H-how? I thought...I thought......wait, you said his version, yes?"

"Yup, his own personal demon...," Katie looked around, seeming like she heard something, "What was that? I just heard something or someone fall..." Ezra took a step towards Joey, not hearing what Katie had said.

"You have a version of IT?" Joey had continued his conversation with Jay, most likely not hearing Ezra. Katie had left to figure out what she had heard.

"It was all Frank's fucking fault, before he came to Ormond we were all bored, sure, but we were good people......mostly. Then Julie figured he was her way out of there and decided to date the guy......he was pretty cool...and charismatic, ya know? I got fired from my job at the hardware store, and Frank decided we were going to have revenge or whatever, the janitor caught us, grabbed Julie, and Frank saw fucking red" Ezra realized Joey probably hadn't heard her, so she repeated her question.

"Joey, did you have a version of IT?"

"And yeah, I know what IT is, the novel, right?"

"No! IT, as in the entity that I talked to Katie about..."

"Oh, um...I don't know then"

"It controls what you can remember, sometimes even what you do...I think IT is why I'm here," Ezra had started making gestures with her hands while she was talking.

"Oh, well then yeah, I guess we have another Entity I suppose," Jay frowned.

" You mean when you lost your memories the other day?" Ezra turned to look at Jay.

"Yes! That thing!" Joey had gone back to talking and Ezra had gone quiet to go over some things mentally.

"So yeah, Frank stabbed the guys, and then he started screaming about finishing the job or some shit. Before I knew it, all four of us had blood on our knives and we're trying to hide this dude's body. Then the fog rolled in and we were all crammed into one body and it was telling us to kill people," Ezra glanced at the other two before suggesting something.

"...IT hasn't really been active for me recently, as far as I can tell that is...what if this entity is across multiple times or even universes?"

"It won't be the same entity, we killed the last one......at least, we think we did"

"Okay, so first off, you're acting on the assumption that this is a different universe, time, or what have you. Secondly, can you be absolutely sure that IT has been after you? Excuse my language, but it could just be fucking around."

"I don't know Jay, okay? I was just suggesting an idea..." Ezra looked away from the other two.

"I know, but it's good to poke holes in ideas before they try to take off with broken wings. It was a good suggestion though."

"Thanks...I guess," Ezra mumbled.

"Joey, you said you killed it...how? How did you get out in the end?"

"One of the killers, he uh, had a heart after all. He sacrificed himself to the souls that were too weak to keep going...it uh, it gave them enough power to rebel against the thing. Next thing we knew, Autohaven was merging with the real world and the entity was screaming at us to stop the survivors from escaping...it was too weak to stop them, like it's own rules were fighting it, we lost our invulnerability, the survivors started fighting back, most of the killers died. We piled into a pickup truck and got the hell out of dodge. We're hoping that without anything to feed on, it'll just die of starvation," Jay wrote this down in a journal as he talked and frowned.

"...but you're not sure?"

"Is there any way to really check Jay?"

"No...that's why so many of the survivors are trying to convince the world of what happened. We're hoping that if anyone else gets nicked, they'll know what to do, but I guess I'll never know, considering I'm on the other end of the knife now...Karma is a bitch I guess," Jay paused.

"Would you say that this entity has influence on time? As in, were any of you from different periods of time?" Ezra glanced at Jay again, going through what she was going to mention earlier, "I know what you're thinking Ezra and I'm comparing this entity to whatever brought us here, not IT. They're not necessarily the same thing."

"To answer your question Jay, yeah. There were people from all different time periods, hell there was dude from a universe where the zombie apocalypse was real."

"It was real," Ezra muttered.

"Oh..." Jay looked at Ezra after Joey said that.

"Maybe, maybe not. We won't know unless we can prove he was from the same time Jay," Jay hesitated.

"I...don't want to say this, but from the sounds of it...it's a very real possibility that we are now facing your entity Ezra. Emphasis on possibly though. We don't know for sure yet, "Ezra sighed.

"Why do you think I mentioned IT Jay?" Ezra paused, "How long has it been since Katie left?" Jay frowned deeper.

"Not long, why?"

"I'm...not sure, something just feels off, did she say where she was going?"

"I don't know, you were the last person to talk to her."

"No way it's the same entity! For one, ours used to whisper in our heads, all the goddamn time."

"We don't know if it is or isn't without looking into it, Joey," Jay shrugged.

"Could be trying something new"

"Oh please, it couldn't tell new if you slapped it in the face with it. It literally adapted things from our memories to make its realm, not even well most of the time," Ezra scoffed before taking a breath.

"...I'm gonna go look for Katie before this turns into another yelling match and someone gets stabbed with something."

"I'm so sorry about that Ezra," Ezra made a gesture, motioning that it was fine.

"Sorry, what happened?"

"It's fine, I guess, I started that yelling match anyways by being idiotic," Ezra waved goodbye before leaving the other two to talk so she could find Katie.

"Katie might have gone to her cave to grab something, so I can check there first...she would've come back to the shack if she wasn't there, right?" Ezra quickly walked to the cave and looked around for Katie, "Katie? Are you here? You left suddenly and you didn't come back to the shack..." Ezra heard muffled howling in the corner of the cave. She rushed over to the noise and found Katie bound and muzzled in her wolf form. She quickly tried to remove the binding, but it wouldn't come off.

"What the hell happened?!" Katie tried yelling through the muzzle, not being able to speak. Ezra removed the muzzle from Katie and as it came off, she shifted human and slipped from the bonds immediately.

"Shit had an anti-animagus charm built in, which apparently works on skinwalkers."

"How did this happen? Who did this?"

"Someone jumped on my back and put the muzzle on me then used incarserus...I never saw a face," Katie shifted into a raven, "Take me home, please, I want to sleep."

"I will, don't worry," Ezra picked Katie up and set her on her shoulder before heading home, "I swear, if I ever find out who did this, I'm going to hunt them until these cycles end..." Ezra arrived at her house as quickly as she could and took Katie back to the bedroom, setting her on the bed.

"Shift into whatever is comfortable Katie, I need to send a message," Katie shifted human.

"I'm good"

"Are you sure Hun?"

"Yeah..."

"Mkay, try to sleep, I'll be right here," Katie passed out right after that. Ezra glanced at Katie with worry before sending a patronus message to Jay & Joey, saying they need to make their way over, quick.

Ezra saw the pair and another person approaching her house and rushed to the door.

"Come in, quiet though, Katie is asleep...and she needs it"