Operator?
[ The voice filtering through sounds distant, like the communicator's owner is holding it incorrectly, or too far away from her mouth. A frustrated sigh quickly follows. ]
Hello? I'm trying to find-- [ A short pause; she's reading the name off the door. ] Madeline
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I need to get her back before something happens to her.
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This isn't the 1930s. And that's not a telephone. Once again, get with the program.
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You mean, like... Cable guys?
[Not really...]
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[ Not at all. ]
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Lady, we're in the twenty-first century here. Or maybe this is the twenty-second for all I know.
Who's Madeline?
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She's my roommate. Little girl with red hair? Have you seen her? She ran away and I ain't seen her since.
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I've seen girls with white hair and black hair here on this bucket of bolts.
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You couldn't have just said no?
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...Thank God. I mean...
Never mind. It's just a relief. Everybody else being from the future and all.
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Now you have me curious. Rotary phone implies you are from Earth, yes? What year was it on the Gregorian calendar for you?
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[ She's going to try to hide that she's not been formally educated. ]
It's 1933.
...Wait, there are people here who don't come from Earth?
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