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[threedoctorates]

[The forge clicks on to show a bed. Looking closer, one can see a lump on it. After a few moments, the lump beings to move, before a head pops up, eyes behind big glasses blinking tiredly. The young boy rubs at his eyes, causing his glasses to go askew before fixing them and then glancing around.]

Mom...?

[This isn't their house. This isn't her

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[firebornfidelis]

[Hello tiny Reid. Have a cute little blonde girl.]

Does your mother usually wander off?

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[threedoctorates]

[Blinks at the Forge, because he doesn't remember seeing that there.]

Sometimes...?

[Can't admit his mom was mentally ill, they'd separate them and commit her.]

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[firebornfidelis]

Oh. Sorry.

[She frowns a little. She doesn't think mothers should really do that kind of thing, but she's far from an expert.]

Well, my father never wanders away, but he's not here either. I think we're both someplace else, away from home.

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[threedoctorates]

It's all right... sometimes she doesn't realize that she's done it.

[Which is as close to the truth as Riza's gonna get.]

Yeah... I know Las Vegas can be strange sometimes, but not this strange.

[Unless he was on the Strip. But if that's so, how did he get there?]

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[thenobledie]

Unfortunately, you are the one missing.

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[threedoctorates]

[Spencer is staring at her thoughtfully.]

... what do you mean?

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[thenobledie]

You are far from home, little one. The city is called Anatole.

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[threedoctorates]

[Bristles slightly at that. He's not stupid, he's twelve and has already graduated high school. He's starting Cal Tech in the fall.]

I know I'm not home. This doesn't look anything like Las Vegas.

What I'm trying to understand is how I got here. Dimensional travel and things like it are in books, no one has ever actually done it before.