Voice Post - [004]

[snapekillsedgar]

For anyone who needs to know, Noel Vermillion's gone

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[disruptstatice]

[What are you moping for only Leo is allowed to mope for anything okay.

From his position of being curled up against Elliot's bed with a book propped up on his legs:]

She might be back.

[It's a little frustrating not to know, but that is just how this place is... Not that it helps.]

[snapekillsedgar]

I know she might. She also might not. You never know.

[So frustrating. Then again it did help, but only a little.]

[disruptstatice]

Mmm...

[Page-flip.]

It's a little strange.

[snapekillsedgar]

Why? People disappear all the time.

[neptanc]

Excuse me- er, I'm sorry for your loss, of course, but may I ask a question? - How long does it take for people to "go?"

[snapekillsedgar]

... What're you talking about? Like, how long do people usually stay here?

[neptanc]

Yes. You just said someone is gone, right? …Oh! I'm sorry, did you mean they are missing? Do you need help?

[snapekillsedgar]

[Ugh. He doesn't want to explain this right now, but the poor woman was confused.]

No, she's not missing. If you look on your phone, there's a list of everyone who's here. Her name disappeared from it, which means she went home.

And, to answer your first question, it depends. Some people stay a month. Some people stay for years.

[Voice - Conference Call to the Police]

[chose_death]

Out of commission? [comes Javert's brusque, tight voice. He has been quite busy and stressed, no matter how good he is at keeping himself in control, ever since the von Karma woman was killed.] Or spirited out of the city?

[snapekillsedgar]

Second one. Her name disappeared off the contact list.

[For the exact same reason as Javert, Elliot had been outright panicking, not that he showed it, thinking the same thing might have happened to Noel. The only thing that had reassured him was seeing that her name was gone, and von Karma's wasn't.]

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[atrumrebellis]

"Gone"? The hell do you mean she's gone?

[snapekillsedgar]

She woke up.

[atrumrebellis]

"Woke up"?

[He didn't understand at first, but then he remembers what he was told when he got here. About falling asleep and coming into the world. In other words, Noel waking up means...]

So she went back to our world.

[snapekillsedgar]

Right.

Wait... Your world? You're from the same place as her?

[stfuelly]

[She's never thought much of the girl, but she also knows she and Elliot were close. So she doesn't seek him out in the house, choosing to call him through the dreamberry instead.]

Elliot. Are you all right?

[snapekillsedgar]

Why wouldn't I be?

[The response is very snappish, because he knows that for some reason, he isn't.]

[stfuelly]

[Keeping her own temper calm.]

She was a friend to you, wasn't she?

[snapekillsedgar]

Right, but people here disappear all the time. Obviously she was going to, sooner or later.

[Only, he hadn't actually considered that possibility.]