Tanisha led the small child down the hallway towards her brothers room, sometimes glancing down at her. She was skipping along happily, almost uncaring. She would brush a hand up against something occasionally and her eyes would flash as she paused for a second before continuing to follow her. They soon arrived at a door, which Tanisha gestured to.
"Alright. Here's his room. What are you supposed to be doing anyway?" She said. Kayla entered the room, doing a small twirl to take it all in.
"Well, there are a couple things! I can check the memories and see if there was anything weird going on with the missing person-"
"Duncan. His name is Duncan." Tanisha cut Kayla off, crossing her arms. Kayla stared for a second before nodding in understanding.
"Right. If there was anything weird going on with Duncan before the disappearance. That, and there sometimes are objects in a persons life that are really important to them that have strong feelings connected to it. We can use that to actually kinda track, well, get a general feeling anyway, of where he went! I shouldn't take way too long unless I find one of those. So I'm just gonna get to work now so I can get out of your hair." She said before walking over to the bed. She grabbed it, and the world around her suddenly seemed to twist and swirl. Moving pictures and sounds blurred through her vision, showing her whatever may have been hiding in it's memories. She flashed through a few times, but nothing out of the ordinary, other than the fact that the room could apparently transform. She blinked back into reality, taking a second to get her bearings. She looked back at Tanisha, who still looked mildly perturbed by the moments she would do that.
Kayla continued through the room, looking into memories and piecing together bits and pieces of information on the boy who had lived here. He seemed nice. It was sad that he had dissapeared like that. She could feel how hard it had hit the family, even Tanisha, who didnt exactly seem like the biggest fan of her little brother. She once again scanned the room, looking for any little thing that she may have missed. She saw a small pile of metal, screws,and motherboards on the desk next to the bed. Duncan seemed to have been building something before he had dissapeared. Kayla jogged over to it, reaching her hand out and touching it like she usually did. But something was wrong. This was obviously something important to him, but unlike usual, she wasnt brought into a memory. Not...a regular memory, anyway.
She was in the same room, but everything was grayscale. No one was there. Everything was in place just as it was before she had entered the memory, but it felt cold. Devoid of any feeling at all. Like it was...frozen. She looked around, jogging over to the window and looking out. The outside was just as greyscale as the inside. The sky was pitch black. No wind blew through the trees, and there was no sound whatsoever. She took a jog back out the door and around the house. There was still not a soul to be found. She exited the house, walking down the empty streets of the town. She suddenly froze. At the end of the street, was a small boy. He was similarly greyscale as everything else in this place, but there was no denying, that was Duncan Dewey. She reached forward, about to call out, but she was suddenly slammed back into her own body against her will.
Her nose was bleeding, one of the side affects of using her abilities for too long, and her head hurt and felt weird and foggy. She was laying on the ground looking up at the ceiling, and much to her surprise, she saw her brother, as well as the family standing over her looking worried, as well as disturbed. When Shayne realized she was back, he took a breath of relief and hugged her.
"Oh thank god. Are you ok? What happened there? You never did that before." He said rapidly. Kayla shook the leftover fog from her head before blinking at them.
"I'm fine, but I think I'm going to need to talk you in private back at the hotel. I don't want to get anyones hopes up or disturb them. I don't even really know what just happened." She said. Shayne nodded at her, standing up and looking at the family.
"Alright. I think we have been bothering you for too long. We must be taking our leave since we have what we need." He said. They got a tissue for Kayla's nose, and were on their way back.