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One.

You must remember there are five of them, no matter what they say. At the twist of the clock, three sat side by side on a battered wooden bench. Another stood behind the bench and the last was crouched in the long grass.

"See! I wasn't lying. Look-look-look."

"Cool."

"Kaz! You're not even paying attention! Sheesh."

Disgruntled, Kaz tore her eyes away from her graphics book, narrowing them instead at her friend's cracked phone screen. "Hmm? Oh wow. That's not a very sound idea, is it? The implications of such a project would be - "

"Amazing."

"What's amazing?" The speaker, Thea, leaned past Kaz to peer at the screen, her long fluffy hair obscuring the page of the graphics book. Kaz gave up on the murderer ever getting to finish mutilating the corpse, and squashed the speaker's head down. "Sayeh's found something weird."

"'Osispiri - let me be you!'" Thea scrunched up her nose, shifting back to her place and picking up a sheaf of paper. "That is weird. Possessing someone's body sounds a bit messed up."

"No, read it properly. It says you change into their personality, not their body, and that makes you understand what it's like to be them. Kind of."

"Sappy, soppy crap," said Kaz, bored.

"ALLITERATION RHYME SIBILANCE!" exclaimed Thea, flinging her notes back onto the bench. A few missed and fluttered onto the grass, she groaned and clamped them with her shoe. "English Lit. is making me insane. So much to do, just aaaah. What did you guys get for quotes on fate?"

"Something about a 'yolk' and some dodgy stars."

"'Yoke', Kaz, you fail."

"Well, Romeo's a bad egg." This said with a self-satisfied expression.

"Huh. OSISPIRI - aren't any of you curious? You're all so mean."

Thea looked up from her intense scribbling, on what looked suspiciously like an old test paper. "I'm listening, but this is study leave."

"You're the only one studying, Perfect Child," said Sayeh. She pointed to the long grass, where a bobble hat could be seen twitching about like an upturned rabbit. "Liz is scrabbling for bugs and Kaz was reading up 'til a minute ago. And Sen is pretending to study but she's actually conducting a minute by minute observation of us."

"Liz?" asked Sen, from behind the bench. Her face was flushed so she ducked behind her textbook.

"Short for Elizabeth. Lissy didn't sound right."

"Short for Lizard," called the bobble hat. Its owner staggered up from the grass, her hands closed over something, and loped over to the bench. Seeing that all were present, Thea took the phone and began to read.

"Osispiri - let me be you!"