anomaly 006 . fourth wall

[dinosize]

Noticed a few of you complaining that you were bored.

Extra hands are always welcome in maintenance.

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[isahumanbeing]

Stephen?

[dinosize]

No.

[isahumanbeing]

What-- Stephen. Where are you?

[dinosize]

No. I wasn't looking for you.

[isahumanbeing]

Wasn't looking--?

Stephen. You're--How are you alive?

[dinosize]

Blame it on time travel.

[isahumanbeing]

Fine then, where are you?

[dinosize]

[ His initial burst of panic starts to fade. He tries to breathe. ]

I'm on a ship. In another dimension. I am dead, and I'm not.

It's complicated.

[ He is trying to be reasonable. ]

[isahumanbeing]

Oh, well, that makes perfect sense then, doesn't it?

[dinosize]

And dodos under a football stadium sounds ridiculous.

[isahumanbeing]

Look, I don't doubt you are where you say you are. It'd would be a little too much to ask to be in the same dimension or you to be on the other side of an anomaly.

[dinosize]

If I could...

[ The truth is, awful enough, that he doesn't know that he would. Maybe he would stay away. ]

[isahumanbeing]

Well, I don't think would disappear for eight years if you could take the nearest anomaly back. [Like someone]

[dinosize]

Did you tell them?

Stay out of trouble.

[isahumanbeing]

Yes. Of course.

[dinosize]

And did they ignore it?

[isahumanbeing]

Well... I wouldn't say they ignored it.

[dinosize]

Nick.

[ He just wants to know. He wants to know they're still as strong as ever.

...he's not really sure he wants to know about Nick.

He doesn't want to know about Helen. ]

[isahumanbeing]

They're fine, Stephen. Connor probably runs the place by now.

[dinosize]

...interesting definition you have of 'fine'.

[isahumanbeing]

Better than the other options.

[dinosize]

Alive. I just want them to be alive.

[isahumanbeing]

They are. I can't say the same about myself.

[dinosize]

[ What - what. The news washes over Stephen in stages. Connor and Abby. Nick. The shock leaves him wavering, leaning hard, sharp corner of his counter digging into his palm. The first thing he remembers how to feel is anger. ]

You idiot. What did you do?

[isahumanbeing]

I told Helen she wasn't as smart as I thought she was.