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[villainously]

( Hook is still having trouble running his tablet. he barely learned how to use his talking (cell) phone before he landed here. suffice to say different technology is not favoring him better. he's had some time to practice. . . not a lot to do when he's been in the hospital since he arrived. he isn't sure how long, it had been a bit of a disorienting experience to be in and out of consciousness as parts of his body grew back.

he's glad to be out. hospitals aren't any fun. even if this time around he wasn't handcuffed to the bed, and no blonde saviors showed up to press on his wounds.

(actually he would have been happy enough to see her he wouldn't have cared if she broke a rib or two.)

the question is, so, now what? and he honestly isn't sure of the answer. this network is supposed to help him connect with other 'imports' like himself, so maybe they can give him guidance. he isn't generally one to favor asking for aide if he can help it, he just has little options to the alternative. he'll suffer it for a good cause. )

I'm sure this has been asked before,
but is there a way to contact where we're from?

( he won't call it home. that idea hurts a little too much. and he has just experienced the pain of a heart growing back, he's good on pain for awhile. )

if I'm stuck here,
then at least I could tell those who might care not to worry.

( he doesn't know what he'd say exactly, yet. but if there's a way. . . he's got to say something. )

Comments

[showtunes]

There is not.

[ with totally unjustified certainty. ]

[villainously]

meaning you've tried?
what sort of method?

( he doesn't have the magic to use a mirror but you know, maybe it'd work. . . he's seem Emma use it to see into a different world. )

text;

[handwringing]

They won't even know you're gone. You've been removed from time in your world. Or that's what all the evidence points to.

text;

[villainously]

( he can't quite decide if that's reassuring or not. )

what evidence is that?

[friendshiprocks]

you're out of luck
:(
sorry about that

[villainously]

( he can't say he's surprised. . . this is how this sort of thing always goes. but he wishes the answer were different. )

not your fault.
I appreciate the answer, at any rate.
and you are?

[fledgeling]

Nah. I don't think they have the tech for cross-dimensional communication, which is pretty tricky from what I've read.

But you could be sent back before you even left.

[villainously]

you can choose when to be sent back to?

( because that would be pretty useful for a man that is a dead if he ever gets sent back home. )

voice.

[darkspider]

They won't even notice that you're missing.

[Any of the more complicated stuff is not Kaine's problem.]

[villainously]

you know that for a fact or just because it's what you've been told?

( there is a difference. )

[permavoice]

[heartstings]

[Oh hey, she remembers that name. It's the suave pirate that was totally attractive and, judging from his post, not going to remember her at all. How sad.]

Seems everyone's covered it but, yeah, ain't no way to contact home. Take it from someone who's been here a couple years. [Give or take the few times she's gone back.] No way to contact home. No way to go home. But, hey, no big deal. They won't even notice you're gone. [She sound way too cheerful to be delivering all this bad news.]

[villainously]

( nope, he doesn't. sorry Kenzi, because you're awesome. )

a couple years? really?

( he knows that's probably his future, whether he likes it or not. )

everyone keeps saying that. how on earth do you know, if you can't contact home?

[darwinatrix]

No. Deal with it.

[villainously]

you're a ray of sunshine, aren't you?

[resipiscent]

I've heard there isn't. But that doesn't mean there isn't. Could be, we just haven't figured it out.

[See, he can be positive.]

[villainously]

( see, there you go. in his experience, no is a flexible answer. it's more of a, nobody has been determined enough yet. )

I knew someone who could look through mirrors to see into different realms,
but I'm pretty far from that capacity myself.

[lurings]

Survey usually says no. Cell service isn't trans-dimensional yet.

[villainously]

didn't mean my phone, sweetheart.

( doesn't he get points for not calling it a talking phone? at least one? )

text;

[humanistic]

Yeah. You can't.

Had enough depressing answers yet?

text;

[villainously]

fairly used to this sort of thing, actually, what's one more?

[industria]

[ Lydia's gone. Allison's bereft. She's curious about the answers this message brings and watches the network for a moment before responding. ]

i'm not sure i buy the time-stopping thing but it's a comforting sentiment, knowing that they don't have to worry about me.

[villainously]

sort of comforting, and at the same time it makes this place an inescapable purgatory before we go back where we belong.

( you know, to die. in his instance. )

[sheriffing]

[He means her, doesn't he? Because the idea of worrying gives Emma a moment's pause (she would, but she wouldn't admit it), but it's pretty easy to see where this is going.]

It depends on who you're trying to contact.

[Unfortunately, she's stuck here too.]

[villainously]

Emma?

( that's what the screen tells him, and really, how many Emma Swans can their possibly be? (you don't want to know, pirate.) it doesn't seem entirely possible, but is the universe really cruel enough to throw a random woman named Emma Swan at him? )

[shuckit]

[ everyone else already covered this, so just tossing it in as more evidence. ]

i've been home and brought back here again too. i don't know about the 'time stops' thing, because that's kind of a self-centered way to look at it. time's screwy and we don't actually know what it's doing. but you're not actually going to be gone from your world for any time someone else would notice.

you won't remember heropa or anything here when you go either.

[villainously]

seems more likely to me that time simply moves slower in our home worlds.

( sounds insane, but it isn't. time travels differently in some worlds. in Neverland it didn't move at all. )

you only remember being if you come back?
how did you get back home in the first place?

slinks in late

[gluestick]

i'm afraid the answer's no. there's no way to send anything back, and no way to go back of your own accord. everything banks on the whims of bloody porter right now. time won't pass if you go back, if that's counts for anything for you.

do you have an excused note tho

[villainously]

it doesn't put me at terrible ease, no, but you're not the first to tell me as much.
how do you all get on in a place you were essentially kidnapped to? everyone seems oddly complacent about it.