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[cursemuchworse]

 
Henry Mills
Writer, Librarian, Owner of Dark Castle Books
 

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Re: 4/2

[cursemuchworse]

I'm still trying. It's been...strange.

[haveagoodheart]

Strange doesn't seem to begin to cover what happens here.

[cursemuchworse]

Insane might?

[haveagoodheart]

[She laughs]

Insane absolutely might.

[cursemuchworse]

And I thought back home was getting weird.

How have you been settling in?

[haveagoodheart]

I learned quite a lot about my own future and my son's future since coming here.

[She shakes her head.]

One. Two of my sons?

[cursemuchworse]

Me, I've got people telling me about a past I'm not convinced they're being honest about.

Two of? How many do you have here?

[haveagoodheart]

I have one back home. He's about to turn five. But here, he's...nearly 30? And there's two...three of them.

[cursemuchworse]

[ Good lord. Was her son the subject of some weird pharmaceutical cloning conspiracy? ]

I've got a woman here who claims to not only be my mother, but her mother is Snow White.

[haveagoodheart]

Like the fairytale?

[cursemuchworse]

Like the fairy tale. And you know. The book I wrote about a woman who is the daughter of Snow White.

How did you end up with three of the same son?

[haveagoodheart]

One is from my future...his future. Another is from a different kind of future? And the third is...also from a different kind of future. Sounds just as weird as your book coming to life.

[cursemuchworse]

This place is so strange.

[haveagoodheart]

This is all going to make no sense when I go home. I wonder how many people just end up staying here.

[cursemuchworse]

Quite a few of the people I've met do seem to have been here more than a couple of years.

[haveagoodheart]

Years?! No one has sent out search parties from back home?

[cursemuchworse]

Maybe they visit home and explain why they're staying?

[haveagoodheart]

Wouldn't that bring more people here? What if they're...about to meet their end? This would be a way for them to live.

[cursemuchworse]

Would that be so bad?

[haveagoodheart]

What about their lives back home? I can't exactly bring my house or husband or friends here.

[cursemuchworse]

Why can't you?

[haveagoodheart]

I think the housing commission would notice a whole house missing, Henry.

[cursemuchworse]

I meant your family.

[haveagoodheart]

Joe, a friend of mine who's a cop, but notice when my whole family has since disappeared.

[cursemuchworse]

Couldn't you tell him?

[haveagoodheart]

And have Joe lie?

[cursemuchworse]

Lie to who? People move all the time.

[haveagoodheart]

Our friends, Henry's colleagues?

[cursemuchworse]

You have six months to figure things out.

[haveagoodheart]

Yeah, I heard. How am I supposed to go back home with the knowledge that I am going to...?

[cursemuchworse]

By changing it.

[haveagoodheart]

Changing it? It..

[She sighs]

That might be a little difficult.