[ As the younger boy speaks, an odd feeling stirs inside of Peter, and chills slip down his spine sporadically. It's not exactly how his own experience is, but it's... familiar, like it's in the same family. A familiar iciness, darkness. Something foreign inside you, something with purpose.

Something alive. ]

It's like... being choked. From the inside. Like.. it's everywhere in me, and I can't breathe. And it hurts.

[ He doesn't know what it is, doesn't understand what it wants. At first, he thought it was his sister haunting him (it's what he deserves) but.. there's something malevolent to this. Something that doesn't feel like her, not exactly.

Though he's tall, mature for his age, he seems almost like a child in how he's shaking now, how he doesn't dare raise his voice above a whisper, though there's no one else around. He stares at the other boy, sees how tired he is all over again. Maybe it's something Peter can feel more than see, the way Will's eyes are. The way it's like looking into a mirror.

Haunted. But---that means someone else potentially has experienced something like this? God, what a thought, and he's searching more intently now, dark eyes peering right into the other's pair. ]

What would something like that... make someone do?