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Chapter 5

(A.N)
I had no clue what to do for a title, so please read and suggest titles for me if you have any ideas, thank you.

When Luna has opened their eyes, it was bright in the room, about noon as always. Luna wasn't a morning person, they typically woke up around noon or afternoon. However, her girlfriend Celeste, was a morning person. They both were quite literally night and day, yet they're still together in the end. But that's entirely besides the point, Luna had just woken up. She didn't bother getting dressed, they weren't going anywhere at that moment and their pajammas were comfortable. She went out to the living room to sit down and still do nothing, just in a different room.

Luna heard a door open behind her, so she turned around. They saw Ace stepping out of his room, still tired and dreary from last night. Ace was holding onto an unfamilier phone. It was the phone that he had taken from the stalker person, but Luna didn't notice or know that the phone was not of his own. Ace looked over at Luna and walked over to her.

"Good.. afternoon I think, Ace," Luna said as Ace approached.

"Hello Luna," he responded back.

They exchanged slightly awkward looks.

"Luna, I need to talk to you real quick, it's something I need to to translate," Ace said. Luna's eyes lit up. Luna preferred reading in languages other than english, more specifically languages that barely anyone knew that probably weren't even classified as actual, existing languages. Luna was always seen as 'dyslexic' or a 'troubled reader,' when it was really only them understanding one thing better than another. Whenever they tried to write in this 'strange' language, people had always said it looked like random lines even though they weren't. Those lines had meaning, just like any other written language, the lines together had actual meaning. Luna didn't know how she even knew the language, she never heard or saw it anywhere. After she discovered her power, she thought that the knowledge of the language was tied to that. Luna knew she couldn't and probably shouldn't attempt to reach out for answers, as that's dangerous since she can reach out to the wrong person, a person in her universe and not the wall.

Ace handed Luna the phone, and they scrolled through it. Eventually, she came upon the notes with the familier language, and started reading.

"This is only a distraction to keep you from finding the creep, if you seek more, you need to look deep.
In the darkest parts, lies a folder labeled who, it will lead you to what you seek, if you know how.. ok i'm done typing all poetic and stuff, there's a hidden something somewhere on here that will show you actual information if you do manage to find me and get the phone, y'all are probably unpredicable af so it's probably easy to force me into giving info"

Luna stared at the text, trying to work out what'd be considered 'deep' in the phone.

Ace broke the short silence with, "So there's something hidden within the phone, and we need to find it. I'd assume it's possibly deeper within the notes or files even. Who knows, maybe it's in some app, or I'm just overthinking everything."

"Well, you could be correct, you probably are actually, althought I doubt it's further in the notes, that just seems too 'shallow,' I suppose. We need to find something actually deep, whether it's literal or a play on words in a way," Luna responded.

"How would it be a play on words,"

"Well, they could be referring to maybe file labeled as the ocean, and it has something hidden there, like an encoded message, or morse, or maybe an audio file with a spectogram, I don't know,"

"So pretty much like an ARG, but not, like a personal one almost?"

"I suppose, you're good at working on ARGs though, right? Aren't you a part of or started an on-going one right now or something like that?"

"Yes and yes, I really like ARGs, codes are pretty fun to de-code, it's fun creating your own codes, but enough about those, let me try to figure out where the info actually if and if it's coded in any way,"

"Ok, you have fun with that Ace," Luna said, in a joking-like tone, even though she actually did mean for him to enjoy it. They then walked off upstairs, to the kitchen because they were hungry and still haven't eaten. She smelled a slight burning smell, and automatically assumed Flint 'overcooked' something, he claims he overcooks things slightly even though he literally burns the food. They then searched for some food to eat.

Ace was looking through everything he could look for, apps, notes, files. He did avoid personal apps like texts, Youtube, and other things like that, he wasn't one to invade on that amount of privacy. Ace looked over everything multiple times, which took hours, there were so many things to look through. The files were full of things, he didn't think he found anything of importance in the files, however, there was. He needed to turn on 'show hidden files,' because there were multiple things that were hidden that were in fact, very important to solve this mystery. Ace was very focused, so focused that he hadn't noticed that it was near midnight, he still hadn't eaten anything, and the entire household was getting rather concerned for him, because he had been trying to figure it out for while, he had been focused on it for hours. Eventually, Flint went to try and get Ace out of this state of flow. Ace looked up at Flint, and suddenly realized how tired he was.

"Oh god, how long have I been at this even,"

"Probably around 10 or 11 hours, which isn't very long compared to how long you've spent focusing on other things,"

"Oh wow, hyperfocus sure is weird, anyways I still haven't actually managed to decode anything, there's nothing actually here, unless I've glossed over something..."

Flint just stood there in confusion, not knowing what was going on or what Ace was actually talking about. Ace realized this.

"I'll explain later, I just realized what I needed to do,"

Flint just nodded and walked away. Ace turned on 'show hidden files,' and that unveiled so many more folders to go through, Ace just stared at all the folders, knowing he'd have to go through all of them, since you could edit and add onto almost all of those folders and not mess up anything. Ace was very tired though, so he just went back to his room to sleep, but he remembered he hadn't eaten at all that day, that's when the hunger hit him. Ace just went to his stash of small foods like granola bars and little things of roasted seeds and nuts, pretty much any food that had a decent amount of protein in it. He just grabbed something and ate it, Ace felt so refreshed from the food, he was also dehydrated. His throat was like burnt chalk, it was dry. He went to get a glass of water, and downed it within seconds. Ace headed back down to his room, and made an attempt to sleep.