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[consultmybooks]

"Can't even shout, can't even cry
The Gentlemen are coming by
Looking in windows, knocking on doors
They need seven and they might take yours'.
Can't call Mum
Can't scream a word
You're going to die screaming and you won't be heard."

[That night, the strange, twisted little nursery rhyme sounds over the PORTAL network in the voice of an older British man

Comments

[kurtonese]

That's poem's not creepy or anything.

[consultmybooks]

It's not? I would hate to see the sort of place you grew up in, then. [Sarcasm - the TENEKA is proving able to identify it beautifully.]

[kurtonese]

[Clearly it loses a little in translation.]

Ohio, actually.

*facepalm* One day, I will master this htmling thing

[consultmybooks]

California. Earth, yes?

no worries! <3 I mess up my html a lot too when it comes to the teneka stuff

[kurtonese]

Of course Earth. What did you think I meant?

[Kurt already thinks this guy is off his rocker.]

[consultmybooks]

There might very well be a country in some dimension other than Earth called Ohio. It pays to be certain.

[He gets that a lot, Kurt.]

[kurtonese]

I'd rather not imagine Ohio as its own country, thank you. It's already bad enough to live in it as a state.

[consultmybooks]

Fair enough. Granted, that is the tricky bit about alternate universes. I thought California was bad enough before I learned there was another one ruled by vampires.

[kurtonese]

...Right. Vampires. Of course.

[consultmybooks]

...correct me if I'm reading the situation incorrectly.

You come from Ohio, on Earth. You have been brought to another dimension by unknown means for an unknown purpose.

And you remain skeptical about the existence of vampires?

That's...either remarkably impressive or deeply disturbing.

[kurtonese]

...Good point. But then again, I guess it's one of those things I have to see to believe and so far I haven't met any vampires here.

[If there are any here, he doesn't talk to them, therefore they don't exist. He's got enough personal issues with his boyfriend and his boyfriend's ex to really care about the existence of vampires or anything outside of his own bubble.]

[consultmybooks]

Fair enough. They take a lot of people that way even back home. In Sunnydale, ignoring their existence was practically a national past time.

Then one of them found television.