"What?! Really?" cried Pyre, talking on the phone with Monsi. "You think you saw him? But that can't be- he's dead. He died on the plane crash!"
Everybody strained their ears curiously towards the hallway where Pyre had exited to take the call. They couldn't hear much, except 'What?!' 'dead' and 'plane'. But even these few clues had them alerted that Mark was the subject of the conversation. A few moments later, Pyre walked back into the hospital room, face pale and looking shaken.
"What happened?" asked Aeyra, concern in her brown eyes. "It's about Mark, isn't it?"
"Monsi. Monsi called, and he said he saw Mark just now. But that can't be because he's dead, right?" queried Pyre, looking as confused as everybody else. "You two were the only survivors of the plane crash. What's going on?"
"Perhaps... maybe this is like a 'Scar Akai' version of Mark!" piped up Chelsea, thinking hard. "Like a replacement, meant to scare us and stuff. But I don't get why they'd go through this much trouble..."