between-fear-and-knowledge
School settles into a routine over time - it's still pretty busy, but the work comes in waves, and Dani has a lot more big assignments where she just needs to manage her own time in working towards finishing. (Carmilla helps. She's surprisingly patient, and good at thinking about the future, and good at managing her time.)
(Carmilla's sweet and loving and fun - and strange. Philosophical, poetic, nearly obsessed with the beauty of death. She continues not being in their room during the day sometimes, never says where she's gone. And she seems tired, worn thin sometimes, but she'll only say she's stressed.)
(Dani keeps having nightmares, though the strange creature, the shadow of a woman in the corner feels - sad. Scared. Worried. (Dani gets tired. Weaker. Focusing gets hard. A sudden feeling that she needs a nap keeps hitting in the middle of the day.))
(Two more girls die. There's - irregularities. Hints. Traces of their attacker left behind, scraps of fabric and heavy dirt under nails, but from what Dani and every internet sleuth can gather the dirt has traces of human skin in it... Someone cross references agricultural maps with the dirt, makes a list of broad locations that match. (The campus's old graveyard is one of them.))
Soon after the second death - before Dani can talk to Carmilla about it - she overhears a rumor about Carmilla. About her, in some ways -
Carmilla's roommate last year got sick. Some kind of wasting disease, though none of the doctors could figure it out. (A few girls have gotten the same wasting disease - that sounds so much like whatever is afflicting Dani - each time the Black Cat Killer has rolled around.) She fell into a coma - and Carmilla called 911 - the rumor disagrees about whether the old roommate is dead or not, but she's definitely not attending anymore.
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