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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. )

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[showtunes]

There is not.

[ with totally unjustified certainty. ]

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.

[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;

[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

[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.

[showtunes]

I tried calling on the telephone.

[ Text doesn't convey sarcasm effectively at all, but he... didn't actually do any such thing. ]

If there was a way, don't you think we'd all be writing home?

voice.

[darkspider]

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

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

[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.]

[darwinatrix]

No. Deal with it.

[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.]

[lurings]

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

[villainously]

right, why didn't I think of that.

( only if he had his Emma button he totally would have tried. )

how am I supposed to know without asking, mate, they didn't give me psychic powers.

[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?

[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. )

[villainously]

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

( there is a difference. )

[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?

[villainously]

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

[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.

[heartstings]

Going on three. And that's only about half the time for some others.

Sometimes you get to go back and things just pick right up where they were and then you end up here again. Or you go home and stay home. Or you go home, stay home but a different version of you comes back and doesn't remember a damn thing.

[villainously]

didn't mean my phone, sweetheart.

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

[villainously]

well that's all quite complicated.
do you remember being here when you go back?

( not that it helps him, since if he goes home he's dead, but you know. inquiring minds want to know. )

[lurings]

Abigail. Still a no. As of yet, there doesn't seem to be the technology to cross universes and dimensions, only the Porter and they don't seem to be using that to send letters back to our loved ones.

[ not that she has any. well, freddie now that abigail knows she isn't dead. that's cool. ]

[heartstings]

Nope. [Still sounding too cheerful. And don't worry, she knows how he feels. She's 90% sure when she goes back it's to go spend time in Hel or Valhalla or where ever.]

[villainously]

( then he really fails to see how anybody knows what goes on at home, if they don't remember being here when going back. where are they getting this information from? )

you're quite chipper, considering.