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[wheretothestars]

[A woman with damp hair wearing a heavy coat and life vest stares down into the camera shivering violently. Her expression is accusing and her complexion is white with terror. The woman’s mouth is half open as if she’s about to say something but she stops herself and looks around carefully - looks around as if she’s making sure no one is watching.

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[Video]

[wheretothestars]

[A not so comforted laugh.]

Lovely. I have a pocket mirror telling me I'm not crazy.

[Video]

[wheretothestars]

You mean to tell me that my compact mirror is a person and has a name?

[This time the laugh is more real.]

God help me, I've truly lost my mind!

voice;

[walkthedawn]

It's not the object that's talking to you, it's someone on the other end.

[She sounds cold.] Are you okay?

[video]

[wheretothestars]

[She peers at the camera more closely and her expression is sceptical as she glances over it.]

How can that be possible? There's no one on the other side of it.

[video]

[walkthedawn]

[He switches the function to video and moves back a little so she can get a better look at him. He slightly smiles.]

See?

[video]

[wheretothestars]

[Oh she sees, though she has no idea what to make of it. Still, she tries to offer a smile of her own in spite of her fear.]

How is this possible?

video

[riddlemered]

Are you all right, miss? Trust me, you're not going insane. It'll be all right.

[Video]

[wheretothestars]

[This is the third face to pop up on her mirror and to be frank, she's beginning to feel more than a bit overwhelmed.

I'm fine, thank you. Though I must contest your claim. I'm certain that I am going insane.

[Video]

[riddlemered]

Quite the fancy talker for one who's supposedly going nuts.

[Video]

[wheretothestars]

Education and sanity do not always go hand in hand.

[video]

[deservesabone]

You don't look like you're doin' so hot. [noticing all that shivering] Do you need help findin' a doctor?

[video]

[wheretothestars]

[A tiny smile at his choice of words.]

No, I'm not doing so hot, am I? I would go so far as to say I'm doing rather coldly, actually. [A small laugh.] I'm not sure there's much a doctor can do for me right now that isn't just as easily accomplished with a blanket.

[video]

[deservesabone]

Well do you have a place you can go to get out of the cold? Anyone told you 'bout the Tower Apartments yet?

[video]

[wheretothestars]

The Tower Apartments? I don't believe anyone has made mention of them to me. What are they?

[voice]

[madeinoblivion]

Are you okay?

You look sick, or...you should get inside, someplace warm. Under some blankets, and have some hot chocolate, or...

[He leans in, squinting]

Did you swim here, or did you show up on the baseball field?!

[voice]

[wheretothestars]

[Rose blinks at the question and looks around.]

I believe I'm in a baseball diamond, though I-- Isn't this where the lifeboats brought us?

[voice]

[madeinoblivion]

Lifeboats?

[Have a blank blink]

Nnnh- nooooo...but it's where the pull did. People show up here. They call us newcomers. We come from worlds outside of this one....or other places in this one, some have said.

[video]

[wheretothestars]

[He doesn't know about the lifeboats.]

You mean to say I didn't arrive in a lifeboat? Did anyone come with me? He- they would be wet as well. The ship we were on sank.

[Her voice is frantic as she tries to figure out how she got here if not by lifeboat- as she tries to figure out what happened to the thousands of people that had still been aboard the boat as well.]