Take the aged potato salad

You don't like touching the container, but a light is a light... You bring the aged potato salad outside.

"Ew," Crystal says. "I hope that's bright enough for this to work."

You take off the earrings and she puts them on two different points of her star. There is heat and light at each of the five points. You and Crystal stand on opposite sides of the star.

Crystal chants something that you can't quite make out. Something cold and dark forms at the center of the painted star. Even with the lights shining at it, you can't make it out clearly.

I do not understand, it says. I only want to be with you. It is lonely where I am from. This is paradise! There are others here!

"I know you are lonely," Crystal says. "But you cannot stay here. You bring the cold and dark with you and we cannot live with it."

The various lights grow brighter, even the light from the potato salad. The being cringes back and seems to curl in on itself.

It lunges at Crystal. She grabs one of the earrings and sticks it in her mouth. The being draws back from the light shining from her.

"Go," she says.

It lunges at you. You imitate Crystal and grab an earring. Before you can get it into your mouth, cold arms embrace you.

You are no longer on Earth. You are in a place colder and darker than anyplace you've ever known.

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