[1] Hello?

[just_a_proxy]

Is there anyone alive out there? Does anyone need help?

((A message scribbled with the burnt end of a wood stick onto some scattered paper, pinned to a bulletin board located near the lake. It works like a journal. :Dd ))

Comments

[usedgrassknot]

I'm hardly what you'd call a native of this place, but there are a few people here at least.

[just_a_proxy]

I've only met two so far.

Let me guess- you took a plunge in a lake?

[usedgrassknot]

I did.

[just_a_proxy]

...Torn from your own world? Or a different world?

[usedgrassknot]

The answer to that is more complicated than I care to get into, but the world I was on before ending up here was not my own.

[just_a_proxy]

...Neither was mine. I never figured out where that was.

[usedgrassknot]

Nor did I, truth be told. I'd only just arrived there when I found myself here instead.

[just_a_proxy]

...Did it have an endless staircase at the edge of town?

[usedgrassknot]

It did, actually. Do you know it?

[just_a_proxy]

...I was there.

[usedgrassknot]

Really now? I wonder if that's a common occurrence here?

[just_a_proxy]

I don't know. We'll have to ask. It's possible whoever's transporting us around wants to keep us on our toes.

[usedgrassknot]

I hope they have the courtesy to let us stay longer this time, if that's the case.

[just_a_proxy]

How long were you in that city?

[usedgrassknot]

A few days, at best.

[just_a_proxy]

...I see.