fragment:target-audience-3

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[[include :scp-wiki:theme:basalt darkmode=a|redmode=b|hidetitle=a]]
[[include :scp-wiki:component:glitch-elements]]

[[module CSS]]
:root{
--general-border-color: 50, 16, 178;
/*scrollbar*/
    --basalt-dark-element-color: 123, 112, 229;
/*links and highlights*/
    --basalt-bright-element-color: 33, 19, 106;
}
body {
    background-image: url(https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/local--files/target-audience/Mist_bg);
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    background-size: cover;
}
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  position: fixed;
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  top: 0;
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a:link {
  color: #E0E0E0;
}
a:visited {
  color: #E0E0E0;
}
a:hover {
  color: #E0E0E0;
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[[/module]]

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[[a class="style01-link" href="https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/target-audience/offset/2" target="_parent"]][[span class="style01-plaintext animation04" style="--content: 'Return to previous page';"]]Return to previous page[[/span]][[/a]]

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[[=]]
[[span class="style04-plaintext animation03" style="--content: "Chapter 3";"]]Chapter 3[[/span]]
[[/=]]

I had fallen asleep before I received the next picture and that proved to be a blessing, for had I been awake, I wouldn’t have been able to sleep at all after seeing it.

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Seeing her stalk up the staircase with that wolfish grin of hers would’ve most certainly filled me with dread had that been the case, but when I saw it in the morning, I actually felt relieved. After all, she had been inside of my home and had every opportunity to harm me while I slept, and yet… she didn’t.

More and more, I grew confident that this creature held no hostile intentions towards me, and whatever fears remained gave way to fascination and curiosity. I wanted to see her with my own eyes and see if there was any way to communicate with her. I searched around the house for her, but when I couldn’t find her, I was overcome by a sadness that I had not expected.

A flurry of thoughts raced through my head as I hugged my knees to my chest. Perhaps she had taken one look at me and decided to leave? Or maybe she overheard me saying something in my sleep that she found off-putting? Or maybe I was supposed to do something and because I didn’t, she left? Was I supposed to stay up to receive her? What did I do wrong? Why did she leave?

I was brought back to reality by the sound of my alarm. It was time to go to work.

I let out a mournful sigh, and as I gathered my things, I reminded myself that she was probably invisible. As I drove to campus, it dawned on me how much I yearned to meet the creature that stalked me, even if it would cost me my life. I knew how foolish that desire was, of course, but my curiosity had gotten the better of me and so I had to see this through to the end.

Then, as I parked my car, I received another picture.

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[[/=]]

It showed the creature sticking her head out of my bedroom door in a sort of playful way, and seeing it, I felt a profound sense of relief.

I hadn’t put her off.

She hadn’t left.

She was still following me.

Moreover, this added to my suspicion that she was indeed invisible to the naked eye.

Feeling reinvigorated and a renewed excitement for what was to come, I went on with my day at campus as usual—I went to my office, responded to emails, went to meetings, conducted research while planning out lessons, and held classes. And as I went through my daily routine, I’d occasionally receive a picture of the creature that had been taken somewhere I had been to just moments ago. It was honestly kind of cute that she followed me around like this, and the pictures sent to me over the course of the day never failed to bring me joy.

Then, at my final class for the day, I was reminded of the danger that still loomed over me when neither Kyle nor Jason showed up. From what I overheard from some of the other students, Kyle was still hospitalized—or, more likely, still held at that ‘specialized facility’ he had been transferred to—while Jason had apparently been taken in for questioning by the FBI, though some students seemed to think that they were actually CIA or some other shady government organization. Either way, I knew that I had to avoid drawing their attention to myself by any means necessary.

As I wrapped things up and returned home, it sunk in just how doomed I potentially was—I couldn’t tell a soul about what was happening without risking being disappeared by some shady government agency, and if I was wrong about the creature’s intentions, I could die a horrible death. Even so, I nevertheless felt compelled to see this through to the end.

After enjoying a dinner consisting of a couple of tacos and quesadillas that I had picked up at one of Harvard Square’s many restaurants, I sat down in my personal library and browsed through some of my favorite books while formulating lesson plans for the upcoming month.

I was reading The Feynman Lectures on Physics when I got a message notification on my iPhone. I picked it up and looked at the picture that had been sent to me, and what I saw made me jump out of my chair.

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It showed me sitting in the chair and reading, with the creature standing right behind me, leaning over the back of the chair to read over my shoulder.

I immediately swung around, hoping to catch a glimpse of her, but of course she was nowhere to be seen.

Figuring that she was still present, but invisible, I spoke up. “Hello…?”

There was no response.

“I would very much like to see you; to speak with you,” I said. “Can you… hear me? Are you able to understand me?”

Still nothing but silence.

“If you can understand me, then give me a sign,” I pleaded. “Just give me anything… please…”

And yet, nothing happened.

Given that she was invisible, I had to assume that she couldn’t make herself heard or felt either. However, not one to give up, I spent the rest of the evening narrating everything I was doing and reading aloud to her. If nothing else, it would make her know that I was acknowledging her presence. More importantly, though, given that she wasn’t human, I figured that this would be a good starting point to teach her English, provided that she could hear me, of course.

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