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[There are sounds of button pressing and general ruffling before the video pops on to show the face of a rather irritated James. He stares at the camera for a few moments before the distinct sound of a long drawn out 'SLOOOOOW' is heard, which causes him to look in the direction it came from with annoyance, before a look of almost terror replaces
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[Of course it was dangerous, it hadn't always been that way, but since he had arrived there earlier that morning... Or was it even the same day anymore? Who knew, he certainly didn't]
[Cult? Yeah James had heard about the town's odd history before when he and Mary had visited it, but he had never really thought much of it--let alone thought it had a cult.]
And I'm not a part of any cult, hell I'm not even what someone would call religious so again, nothing to worry about.
[There was a pause as he thought over her question, it wasn't anything difficult to answer, well in the sense that he knew what to say]
My wife, she sent me a letter telling me she's waiting for me there. I was in the middle of trying to find her when I ended up here some how.
[Of course James left out the important fact that the woman is dead]
So, hey! If you know about Silent Hill, do you possibly know how to get back there?
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... Well... honestly, no. I don't. Nobody here knows how to get back yet. But even if I did, I'm not sure I'd tell you. It's dangerous there, even if you're not... getting sucked into the creepy stuff.
[Douglas had said Silent Hill was a messed-up town, even under normal circumstances... and she believed him. Any place with so much darkness roiling under the surface couldn't possibly be okay, even to those untouched by the Otherworld.[/sub]
Why would your wife wait for you there, anyway...?
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Well that's disappointing... But I can understand why you would do that...
[He fell silent again, but it was only for a short moment]
Well it's because Silent Hill was our special place.
[He had said in a tone that was as if he was stating an undeniable fact.]
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... Your special place.
[Unlike Maria, she doesn't say that with that obnoxious, knowing undertone. She just says it thoughtfully-- you can practically HEAR her brows furrowing. In the year since that horrible night, she HAD done a little research. It was a pretty popular honeymoon spot, wasn't it.]
.... Well. Anyway. I guess I can't blame you for wanting to find it, but... yeah. No one knows how to get home. .... You're the first person I've seen who knows about anywhere close to where I was from, though. Did you just get here?
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Yeah, I somehow... Appeared here not too long ago. I dunno probably been here for an hour or so. I haven't really been keeping track. It's good to know there is someone else from where I'm from--or at least close to anyway. Some of the people here are kind of... to put it nicely, strange.
[James wasn't planning on really sticking around with people, or really relying on them. To be honest he wasn't exactly used to people talking to him in such a friendly manner(friendly by his terms anyways) or acknowledging him for longer than what they perceived as necessary but...]
Well maybe we'll run into each other sometime. If that happens, maybe it'd be better if I knew your name..?
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An hour. [That means her estimation awhile ago that people were arriving here in bursts was more or less correct.] Well, it's a three-day trek to the next town. Little longer if you lollygag around like I did. [Oh god, she said 'lollygag'. Did anyone in this generation even SAY that word anymore? This is what happened when you grew up with a lit geek like Harry for a father.] And that's an understatement about people here being strange. [She likes a lot of the folks she's met, but saying that they were NORMAL was ... just wrong.]
Anyway... uh. I'm in the next town for awhile. I guess if you get there, we might see each other. [The trailed-off question gets hesitation in response. Heather's wary-- not because she really thinks this guy might have something to do with the cult, but because... well, can you blame her? But finally, she speaks up.]
Heather. I'm Heather Mason.
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Well I don't plan to lollygag [honestly who says that anymore? this girl had to be around 20 or younger, her voice made that apparent, but then again some people did sound young when they weren't.] I'll do my best to try and find the town then.
[James is all too familiar with hesitant answers and really if she survived the Silent Hill he was just experiencing less than a few hours ago, he could completely relate as to why she'd be wary of anyone.]
Alright Heather, I may have mentioned it in that video before, but I'm James Sunderland.
[Again with a pause, James had never been the conversationalist, but he didn't want to scare off the only other person who seemed to know anything from his world... God that thought just gives him a chill down his spine, the idea of being in another world... It was just unsettling but there really wasn't anyway to explain what happened.]
Well I guess with any luck we might see each other. That is if I don't get lost in these woods...
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It's a pretty straight run. If you don't stray too far off into the wilderness, you'll get there eventually.
And yeah, you did mention that. [Well, not the 'Sunderland' part. But the name doesn't sound familiar to her, so it doesn't mean a whole lot.]
And yeah, well, I'll be around awhile longer. [Her curiosity is overwhelming her caution. She was not expecting anyone from her world-- now that she knew people were coming from multiple worlds-- to show up here. Sure, she'd asked around about Douglas, but she'd never really thought he or anyone else would be around. Even though the presence of this... guy, whose 'special place' had been Silent Hill, was bothering her, she was interested.] If you get to the town within the next few days, I'm working in the Pokemon Center. Stop by. ... And try not to get lost.
[There's another pause, and then she subtly nudges another probing statement out there.] Mark up your map if you can, it makes it easier not to get lost. That sort of thing's saved my life before.
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Alright I'll try not to, I'm just not one for the outdoors really.
[Towns were easy, they were linear. Forest weren't quite the same, sure there was a path in most of them but some paths get over grown or washed out. Like in a heavy terrible storm, kinda like the one approaching.]
Well hopefully I'll get there soon, I rather not get stuck in this forest for too long.
[Marking maps was something he too discovered to be a useful habit, but when you don't exactly understand how to work your map since it wasn't paper and instead part of some technology he was just figuring out how to work, that was a tad on the difficult side]
I'll try, I too have been saved a time or two due to the exact same thing. Though this pokegear or whatever they called it is kinda out of my league when it comes to technology. But I seem to be getting it, I'm sure the map will be easy to figure out. But uh--thanks.
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I like the outdoors just fine, I just don't like... nature. [That was a good way of putting it. Heather didn't like nature. Leaves? FUCK leaves. They gave you hives and stuff. Leaves could just go and die. Heather was a city girl through and through.]
Uh... yeah. I guess it's kinda hard to draw on that thing. But yeah like... I dunno. [She sensed this increasingly awkward conversation was drawing to a standstill.] You're welcome, I guess.
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