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[oliverplus]

[today, Oliver arrives on the Plane with a bed in tow. not just any bed, but what appears to be a standard-issue hospital bed from the 27th century. he is also wearing a hospital gown, and he has an oxygen tube hooked to his nose and an IV in his arm, although the appartuses the devices were attached to don't seem to have made it to the Plane

Comments

[lamb_of_gold]

Oliver?! What happened to you?

[oliverplus]

[looks a bit sheepish] You've got me! I don't remember a thing.

[mumbles] Wow, I didn't know my imagination was this creative. Or curious...

[lamb_of_gold]

You...don't remember anything at all?

[oliverplus]

I remember things! Just...not anything recent. I'd tell you how far back, but. I don't remember. Ironically. [smiles sheepishly]

[lamb_of_gold]

So you do not remember this place, I take it? [He's looking squarely at Oliver. There's prominent worry, and a fading sense of confusion]

[oliverplus]

Uh...no. [looks away, the worry and confusion making him uncomfortable, though he doesn't understand the source] I mean, I had a dream about it, yeah, which I guess is why I'm imagining it now.

[lamb_of_gold]

Everyone who can come here dreams of it. It may be difficult to believe, but this place is very real.

[oliverplus]

[frowns] So I'm in space for real, then? Not hospital? Or am I like...only here in my mind?

What do you mean "who can come here"?

[lamb_of_gold]

Not quite Space. This is the Astral Plane.

[He pokes Oliver in the leg] and you're here in body as well. If you wish to return, you need only think about it.

People come and go from here to all manner of different timelines and universes. There seems to no rhyme nor reason to those of us who can.

[oliverplus]

Okay...

You can leave by thinking about it? For real?

So, I could come back, then. If I wanted to?

[lamb_of_gold]

The very same way, should you choose.

[oliverplus]

That's...convenient.

But I think I'll stay here for now. Not sure how the nurses would react to a hospital bed disappearing and coming back, really!

[lamb_of_gold]

They won't have noticed. While you're here, time doesn't pass at home.

[The sense of worry is somewhat faded, but still present]

[oliverplus]

[scoffs] What, really? [frowns, still feeling that worry as he looks at Mu] Then I guess I could give it a go...

[and he does, in fact, disappear from the Plane. and reappear a moment later, eyes wide] Whoa!

[lamb_of_gold]

[Mu's smile is a little bit more genuine when he comes back] You see?

[oliverplus]

Yeah, but...wow!