[For: Sam]

[sgmitchell]

He'd spotted the notice on the board--it was chance, really, spotted in the midst of keeping moving, just to keep the loss of Reese out of his head. His inability to do anything to stop the vanishing. Of her, of anyoneHe'd spotted it, but Sam was already gone by he time he had. A trip into dinosaur territory. He hadn't gone into that place since

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[gate_expert]

Sam heard Cam outside, but she was flat on her back with her head under Ba'al's computer, rearranging things, and couldn't stop right that second. "Yeah," she called. "Come on in, Cam, I'll just be a minute!" There were a jumble of wires and crystals around her, but she knew exactly where everything was and where it should go.

[sgmitchell]

Only Sam would be so busy she couldn't reach the door in a New Atlantis hut. Not that Cam found it surprising at all. She wouldn't have been Sam if she had nothing to do.

It took him a moment to spot Sam in the mess of whatever she was working on with Ba'al's computer.

"Any luck with that, so far?"

[gate_expert]

"It's going okay," Sam lied, which was easier to do when you weren't looking at someone. The truth was that now that she was pretty solidly attached to her theory that they were in a virtual reality, she had no clue how to even account for that in her calculations and was at a dead end. She just didn't want to admit it to anyone yet, especially herself. "Just trying something. Hang on."

She clicked a couple of crystals into place and slid out from under the computer. "Hey, Cam, what's up?" she asked, getting to her feet and dusting herself off.

[sgmitchell]

Virtual reality was better than the theory he had once, that they'd landed in some far-flung island of Narnia. It was miles better than the prevalent belief that they were n some sort of magical stasis with no exits.

Cam dug his good arm into a pocket, and half expected some sort of...fancy EM wave when she tried her 'something'. The lack of anything wasn't particularly discouraging. It wasn't that he didn't believe Sam could find a way out--it was that he wasn't sure he could believe she'd be around long enough to do it.

But that wasn't why he was here.

Cam nodded in greeting, and offered her a slim, amused smile. "Dinosaurs, Sam?"