The ruins were nothing short of unsafe, with doppelgängers roaming freely, even taking your appearance and tricking you almost every time. Though, your lanterns help zap any doppelgänger that tried to get anywhere near you.

Now, you were roaming around, lanterns hovering around you as you traversed through the grey, echoey cavern. grey fog emerging from above. As you sighed softly, a huff of your own breath puffed out even if it wasn’t even that cold. Though, you kept hearing footsteps behind you, yet when you turn around, nothing there. You shivered at that fact, gulping as you continued to walk before suddenly bumping into someone—or something. You slowly looked up, and were face to face with a stoic and serious face from a teen who looked your age. You stepped back but James gently grabbed your wrist to prevent you from moving further. “Don’t leave. I won’t hurt you.” He says gently, and when he shakily reached out his free hand, he began to twitch and repeat the phrase he had just said, but before anything else could happen, he was suddenly knocked out but his REAL self. That one was just a doppelgänger…

The real James, holding a piece of the grey thick wood in his hand, stared down at his doppelgänger, before looking up at you with a blank face before squinting his eyes as if to make sure you weren’t one of the doppelgängers. Though, James noticed how you weren’t attacking him, and he slowly softened up as he realized he found another living breathing being like him…