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[lostwoutmyblogr]

[The video does flick on- but only reveals blackness. After seeing all the accidental posts on the network, Sherlock had taped paper over his, thick enough to block out any light or accidental image

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[purebloodmight]

[Tom's eyes are cold, as they always are, but there's something burning just behind the usual neutrality.

Rhode Kamelot let him in on a little secret. And now, Tom is beginning to notice holes in his life that he cannot explain. Affected or not, it's beginning to drive him insane.

And, quite obviously, there is only one man in Adstringendum he could possibly hope to garner a legitimate answer from.]

Holmes.

[Curt and to the point.]

Is your family here.

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

What?

[Mycroft. He sits bolt upright. (And no, he hasn't been evented this time because he hates everyone.)]

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[purebloodmight]

Your family. Are they here.

[He has absolutely no patience for this, Sherlock, answer the damn question.]

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

[He thinks about that for a long moment. But no, he would have seen signs by now if there had been any.]

No.

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[purebloodmight]

How long have you been here.

[His tone is beginning to become slightly less controlled. Because, well, Rhode imagining things, Tom could envision it, but Holmes is a constant.

If he says his family is not here, then his family is not here, which means everything is a fabrication.

Which means Tom has been tricked.]

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

Fourty six days, eight hours, some number of minutes.

[He could be more specific if he had to.]

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[purebloodmight]

[Tom stares at him for a long moment, his expression unreadable.]

Fourty-six days.

[It's muttered to himself -- something is obviously not right with the wizard. He leans against the wall of his bedroom -- but it isn't his bedroom, in Howl's Moving Castle. It's another bedroom entirely.]

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

You're experiencing some sort of cognitive dissonance.

[He leans in, fascinated.]

Send me your coordinates, I'm coming there.

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[purebloodmight]

I'm not experiencing some sort of cognitive dissonance, you fool, I can't remember anything before this place because of them.

[There's an aggravated hiss -- Tom needs control. He needs control. And now that his utter lack of control has just been confirmed, he has no idea what to do.]

-- I'm at the damn clinic.

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

All right, I'm on my way.

[Scrambling.]

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[purebloodmight]

[That just makes him grind his teeth.

He isn't a specimen, damn it.]

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

What exactly is going on?

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[purebloodmight]

My family is here.

[Shortly. Tom doesn't understand the significance of that statement because he doesn't remember his past. He doesn't know he's a poor orphan.]

Mother. Father. Sisters. Brothers.

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

Why does that disturb you?

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[purebloodmight]

Because it doesn't make any sense. None of it. The people in my family. My mother. My father. My siblings.

My life and my memories of it --

Make no sense.

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[lostwoutmyblogr]

You think this place created them artificially.