[ That doesn't feel like a thing a person should mention so casually — the fact that their mind plays tricks on them, and often — but fuck it, Andy's not judging. Her own head has been unreliable for centuries. The human brain simply isn't equipped for a lifetime of several thousand years, and her skull continuously leaks memories she doesn't even know she's lost. So, sure — maybe Tamamori's head is a bit jacked up too.

But dreaming about faces like that — ones that look like the haniwa, that's a bit too on the nose, isn't it? And despite his phrasing, the fact that he's seen them while awake definitely makes it more suspicious. ]

Are you really trying to downplay the fact that you've been seeing haniwa faces all over the fucking place right now? [ Her hand finds her hip, her eyebrows pinched. ] That's not your brain being quirky. Those little bastards are off somehow.