scary: ashlyn

[turbulency]

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[killies]

[ npnpnp. ]

Couple weeks, maybe? Uh, weeks before showing up here. I don't know, I'd been kind of... losing track of time in there.

[turbulency]

[ thinking... ]

Are you still there? Did you figure out if it really was an infection...?

[killies]

I was, yeah...

[ as for the second question... ] I don't think so. But it's something. I don't know.

[turbulency]

So you're still not sure if it was real or a hallucination?

[ man that is messed up ]

[killies]

It's real. [ firm, even though she sounded uncertain a second ago. ] I just don't know how much of it.

[turbulency]

How do you know?

[ He doesn't sound doubtful, just curious. ]

[killies]

We talk about it during the day. The things that happened in the other dimension and how to handle them. It would have to be a shared hallucination then, right? How would that even work?

[ probably by them talking to each other and just integrating what they all say into the hallucination but whatever she doesn't think about that. ]

[turbulency]

That's true. [ He doesn't know much about hallucinogenics. ] Was it still happening while you were there?

[ He's guessing so, since she was particular about the schedule when she arrived. ]

[killies]

Yeah. We managed to get some security passes on that side, so we can leave our cells and meet up during the night.

[turbulency]

And your friends that you thought were dead? They're really alive?

[killies]

Oh. Yeah. They died in the Phantom Dimension, so it doesn't carry over.

[turbulency]

So if you die in the Phantom Dimension... you don't die in real life?

[killies]

Nope. It'll just hurt.

[turbulency]

[ Well, that could be worse. But... ]

Then what are you trying to do now?

[killies]

Survive? Find a way out of the facility, I guess. It's complicated.

[turbulency]

You don't trust them?

[killies]

They're just trying to use us and we don't know what for. Who knows if we can trust anything they say. We already know they lied about our parents.

[turbulency]

What was the lie...?

[killies]

They said our parents knew where we were and that they were fine.

But they're locked up too.

[turbulency]

What? Why?

[ sorry he has so many questions ]

[killies]

I don't know. Maybe just to keep them quiet about us being taken?

[turbulency]

... That's messed up.

It's hard to tell what they could want from all this.

[killies]

My best guess is power of some kind, but... It's a blind guess. I don't know how. I don't know why.

[turbulency]

And you'll be going back to all that.

[ ugh ]

It sucks. You haven't caught a break in a long time, huh?

[killies]

It is what it is. I want to get back. I don't like not knowing what's going on while I'm away.