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[This post goes up very shortly after Jesse comes out of his catatonic state, on the evening of the 23rd. He's a little frenzied, a little wild-eyed and panicked, but he has to know he didn't imagine all of it. There has to be someone else who saw it, too.]

Did anybody - Did anybody else just get back? I mean, like... Were any of you guys ported out, too? To the future, or whatever it was. I can't be the only one. I mean, I saw some of you there. It was De Chima, right? We were just in De Chima? But our bodies got left behind here, I guess. I dunno. What was it? Was it a dream, or... Like, did we seriously just see the future? Because I think that's what it was. I think that was the future. I wasn't alone. I mean, I know I wasn't alone there.

...Right?

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Are we in a dream right now? 'cause it felt exactly like being here.

[textualhealing]

[A pause, thoughtful for a second.]

Honestly? I'm still not entirely convinced this whole thing isn't a dream...

[hostage]

Cool story, Shakespeare.

[textualhealing]

Hey, you're the guy tripping out about future land.

[hostage]

It happened.

[textualhealing]

I believe you, all right? It's not exactly the weirdest thing to happen in this place. There's just a lack of information going on here.

[hostage]

I can't explain how it happened 'cause I don't know. It was the exact same thing as the last time I got ported out, except instead of missing a day, I was missing ten years. And the whole place had gone to shit.

[textualhealing]

And there were others there? Others from here?

[hostage]

I think so. I mean, there were a lotta imPorts, but there were at least a couple from this time.

[textualhealing]

Coulda been an AU.

[hostage]

Considering the shit I saw, we better fucking hope it was.

[textualhealing]

Might not even be any reality. I mean, it's starting to become pretty obvious the Government enjoys screwing with us. If they've got the ability to drag us here, then they can probably do a whole lot more crap than that.

[hostage]

The government didn't bring us here.

[textualhealing]

[Well done, Jesse. You caught Jeff having done zero research.] Even if they didn't, they don't seem against using us.

[hostage]

They definitely wouldn'ta shown me what I just saw on purpose if they were hoping to keep using us.

[textualhealing]

Then maybe it wasn't them. Maybe it was someone who wanted us against the Government. I dunno. Either way I'll be coasting the neutral zone for now.

[hostage]

Good luck with that.

[textualhealing]

It might be a power.

[hostage]

It might be. But it's different from other times I had people inside my head.

[textualhealing]

So it's not the first time something like this has happened?

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The other times were more like dreams. Or... Nightmares, I guess. I dunno how to describe it. Like, the edges got fuzzy. You get outta the illusion and you see what all was wrong with it, how it didn't make sense.

This time wasn't like that.

[textualhealing]

Vivid. Right. And there's others sharing it. [He knows this feel. Sort of.]

How did you know it was the future though?

[hostage]

Somebody told me it was 2025. And one of the guards said something like that, too.

[textualhealing]

Guards? You got guards? Like, good guards or bad guards?

[hostage]

The prison guard kinda guards.