[Day 38 | phone call | everyone]

[ethanmaaars]

 Hello..? Sorry, I'll never get used to these phones...

Anyway, uh...I've had a lot of time to think... you know, thanks to the snow..

[Ethan's tone was nervous, unsure - not that this was very curious, since he hadn't exactly done anything very normal and/or calm since his appearance in Bell Pointe.]

Doesn't anyone else think it's strange that no

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[escapedpandora]

How are we not normal?

[ethanmaaars]

You're a little different than the kids I'm used to, that's all.

It's not a bad thing. Just... interesting. But I guess normalcy is all in the eye of the beholder.

[escapedpandora]

It's just... adjusting to this place, right? I mean, a lot of stuff here we didn't have at home, so people might be a little different because of that?

[ethanmaaars]

That could be it, you're right.

[Ethan couldn't bring himself to argue his point to a kid. Didn't seem fair...or something.]

[lilbloodeyes]

Humans. Always scared of abnormal.

Always.

[ethanmaaars]

Not scared, necessarily...

[lilbloodeyes]

....mmmmmmhn.

Even mama is scared of me.

[ethanmaaars]

[Ethan paused. He wasn't scared.... but creeped out? Yeah. Definitely creeped out.]

I don't have any reason to be scared of anyone I've run into here. [Yet?]

It's the things I haven't seen that scare me.

[killedthepast]

"Normal" is often subjective.

[...but it's safe to say that Garcian isn't normal by a long shot.]

[ethanmaaars]

I'll give you that.

But still... I don't know.

[killedthepast]

Do you suppose there's a connection, then? Maybe it's got something to do with why we've all been brought here, and not another seemingly random group of people.

[mongreldog]

What's to say that we're not simply "interesting"?

[ethanmaaars]

Then why weren't any "boring" people brought here?

[mongreldog]

You're a smart man, aren't you? Think about it. Someone brought us here. We're not "interesting people" we're "interesting to someone."

[ethanmaaars]

Either way, it's why we were brought here, right?

It must mean something.

[revupthose]

Not really the best choice of words there, genius.

[ethanmaaars]

Maybe "normal" isn't the best term. Would "average" be better?

I'm really not trying to offend anyone. I just think that we need to look a little more closely at details if we want to get home.

[revupthose]

Average would have been better by a fucking mile. You sound like you mean well, so I'll try not to give you too much shit about it. Where I'm from, people punching out giant sea monsters and pirates who can control the very elements themselves is normal for me.

I think you should just count this shitty situation up to pure, random thought. I don't think looking too deep into this crap is going to get you very far.

[ethanmaaars]

Yeah, sorry. I should've been more tactful.

But.... I'm still not convinced that anything here is entirely random. It could be the situation I'm coming out of but I find it hard to believe anything could be accidental anymore.