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[futureforbirds]

Huh...

[Kaito has just seen today's date somewhere on the street - like a newspaper rack. He looks a bit baffled on the realization that,]

We've been here for a year today.

[He means Mekaito, whom he's absently talking to, but it applies to [Bad username or site: leftsearching title=KAITO @ livejournal.com] too.]

A lot has changed in a year, hasn't it? First we met another "me," then that bus showed up... things have gotten stranger and stranger around here since then, and I've also learned a lot from the people who were drawn here.

[he pauses thoughtfully, staring into space]

It's already been a whole year. Should I ... should I be ready to go back?

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[tankhanded]

_{[suddenly: behind you]}

Your question is moot. There is no avenue for escape.

1/3

[futureforbirds]

[oh, because that's not creepy at ALL.]

Wh-

[futureforbirds]

[he turns around, sees the tank hands, and is even more creeped out.]

[futureforbirds]

Yeah right. Since when?

[this dude spends a lot of time indoors, and has missed quite a few memos as a result]

[tankhanded]

_{[completely bland]}

I have been attempting to locate an exit for several weeks. There are none. The landscape simply turns in on itself. Any long period travelling in any direction will inevitably result in simply reaching the start point once again. As such, escape is physically impossible.

[futureforbirds]

What you just described sounds impossible. Have you tried flying?

/2

[tankhanded]

_{[Just. Stares.]}

I am not capable of flight.

[tankhanded]

I considered attempting to dig, but that would only lower altitude, and would also result in problems reaching the surface if the attempt is to be aborted.

In any case, we cannot leave by normal means.

1/2

[abovethewall]

I can fly, so it will be no problem.

[futureforbirds]

[Kaito, however, is becoming troubled by this. STR doesn't seem to be hostile, so he's less inclined to think she's lying now]

You're telling me that all this time, I've just been behind another wall?

[tankhanded]

_{[completely fails to understand your meaning]}

...we are clearly outside.

[tankhanded]

_{[to Mekaito]}

Do you have a method of sending a message back in the event that you succeed? I am quite sure there are others that would also like to be elsewhere.

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[abovethewall]

I assume it would be difficult. My master's home lacks modern technology.

But I do not deem it impossible.

[futureforbirds]

We understand how you feel. If we go, we'll definitely come back with a way out.

[tankhanded]

Thank you. Do you require assistance in any fashion?

[futureforbirds]

Mm, once we're out will come the hardest part, and I'll probably have to do it alone. But thanks, I do appreciate it.

Oh, and .... now that I think of it, my friend Koto seems to have had gone home and come back recently. I didn't realize this was a problem for some, or I would have asked how she did it. But, don't give up, all right? I don't think any of us are prisoners, but maybe the way out just isn't obvious.

[tankhanded]

...I admit, this world is an improvement over my own, but to simply arrive without context or effort is...

_{[shuffles faintly, resulting in a clank from the hands]}

[futureforbirds]

Ah, I think I get it. It's better here than my home too, but I think I would have been awfully scared if that had happened to me.

[He seems to be vastly in the minority as one of the people who actually came on purpose.]

Do you mind if I ask what your, um, world is like?

[he's kinda glancing at those hands when he asks. They certainly have him curious]

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[tankhanded]

Quite dead. The global population was 4, and we were immortals. Reality itself may have been decaying.

[futureforbirds]

[Wow. She's got him beat there.]

Reality decaying... I can't even imagine it.

How... how did it get so bad?

/2

[tankhanded]

...

[tankhanded]

_{[Shuffle. Clank.]}

I do not know. I tried searching for... it was hard to measure time; we lost the sun cycle. All the information I could find was in the remains of libraries.

[futureforbirds]

I see. Sorry to bother you about that.

/2

[tankhanded]

It was not your fault. It took me decades to realise things were actually at fault. I believe it was the same for the rest of us.

[tankhanded]

_{[looong sigh]}

Reading about something and then seeing it is... very different. Even if it was failing, it was still my world. I'm sure you understand.