016 [video]

[miniworth]

[The feed turns on this fine Tuesday afternoon from a Gear that hasn't posted in quite a while. The camera adjusts, focuses, and then shows a disgruntled looking child sitting - legs crossed, leaning back in the chair, with a serious line face - at a table in what looks like the café at the Goldenrod Hotel. A newspaper held in one hand, the other

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[smilegonnakillu]

It's so lovely to have you back, Miles.

[miniworth]

--!

[He blinks, at first, surprised that she would address him. But he does offer her a bit of a smile-smirk.]

I hope you hadn't missed me too much, Miss Hawthorne.

[smilegonnakillu]

Many people here have been falling to the same fate as you did. I'm simply curious, that's all.

[miniworth]

I do recall it being common around here. [He averts his eyes, looking contemplative.]

I temporarily went back to our world.

[smilegonnakillu]

Though many people seem to be waking up around now.

Oh, so that's where you all go while you sleep. How long were you in our world?

[miniworth]

That's good.

[He nods.]

I was there for nine months.

[smilegonnakillu]

And yet you were only gone for a week. I wonder how that is possible.

Perhaps it is one of the mysteries of this place that will never be answered.

[miniworth]

Nine days, to be exact.

This world is full of mysteries, anyhow, and no answers yet.