As the fuzzy man approaches the statue, he'll notice that things are happening. The background noises - the crowd, the music - will be fading away. And, from the statue, a voice.
The voice is a girl's - the statues? But her lines are coming out fast, almost overlapping one another. It's not one single conversation, but a myriad of conversations coming out in rapid succession.
"Yep, yep! I'm fucking insane in the brain! Let's dance! Shake that bony white ass!" "I pledge allegiance to Max, and to the power for which she stands!" "You saved me again. Crazy. Now we're totally bonded for life!" "You look cute with your hair soaked in chemicals." "I double-dare you. Kiss me now!"
It seems like... all of their feelings are coming through. Happy feelings. Kurt can feel them - the joy, the excitement, the love. It's not a tribute to punk rock, it's a tribute to the girl.
And then...
"I'm not mad. It adds up in my mind as people letting me down." "Why does everybody in my life let me down? My dad gets killed, you bail on me for years, my mother gloms onto step-fucker, now Rachel betrays me..."
Anger and betrayal. Those feelings are coming across, too.
The icing on the cake comes next, though.
"I want this time with you to be my last memory..."
Sadness.
And... "Where'd you get that? What are you doing!? Come on, put that thing down! ... Get that gun away from me, psycho!" A single gunshot rings out, and the statue shatters. The pieces are too small to salvage anything, or even to make out any of the girl's features from them.
On the base of the statue, the same message is scrawled in blood, over and over.
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The voice is a girl's - the statues? But her lines are coming out fast, almost overlapping one another. It's not one single conversation, but a myriad of conversations coming out in rapid succession.
"Yep, yep! I'm fucking insane in the brain! Let's dance! Shake that bony white ass!"
"I pledge allegiance to Max, and to the power for which she stands!"
"You saved me again. Crazy. Now we're totally bonded for life!"
"You look cute with your hair soaked in chemicals."
"I double-dare you. Kiss me now!"
It seems like... all of their feelings are coming through. Happy feelings. Kurt can feel them - the joy, the excitement, the love. It's not a tribute to punk rock, it's a tribute to the girl.
And then...
"I'm not mad. It adds up in my mind as people letting me down."
"Why does everybody in my life let me down? My dad gets killed, you bail on me for years, my mother gloms onto step-fucker, now Rachel betrays me..."
Anger and betrayal. Those feelings are coming across, too.
The icing on the cake comes next, though.
"I want this time with you to be my last memory..."
Sadness.
And... "Where'd you get that? What are you doing!? Come on, put that thing down! ... Get that gun away from me, psycho!" A single gunshot rings out, and the statue shatters. The pieces are too small to salvage anything, or even to make out any of the girl's features from them.
On the base of the statue, the same message is scrawled in blood, over and over.
"SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE" "SAVE CHLOE"
And around the room, every single photograph that features the girl has had her face burnt out of the photos.
However, where the statue was standing, there's now a single button. A large one, with the symbol for... rewind? Like from a VCR?
What's Kurt's next move?
A. Press the button
B. Examine the photos
C. Go back and look at your other options again.