LA has more natives. [He frowns. Giving the details out to any newcomer is something he hates (it makes him feel crazy) but there's her own insane background to take into account. If any of it's still the same, maybe the culture shock won't hit so hard.] It's this kind of... nexus? Between dimensions?
[And she does fit, comfortably, a term normal circumstances might find trouble applying to her odd arrangement of angles. He shrugs his arms around her and she's a neat alignment.]
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which i know it sounds strange but trust me my brother never is late when it comes to meeting me
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you lost a night. think he might have called then to reschedule?
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where are you?
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[Somewhere in the building there may be the sound of a door opening.]
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Doctor Robert has beautiful abs of gooooooooold!
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Cooee would have done the job.
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Well now everyone knows your secret.
[And up she goes, until she's next to him]
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[He leans back against the wall and looks her over.]
You've had a look round the city?
[The inflection is there, but it's barely a question.]
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I don't...even know where I am.
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Nobody's enough of a hippy to buy that they stumbled into this place on a wrong turn from their roadtrip for long.
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[Oh, man, that was a stupid thing to say and she knows it. She just shakes her head]
Fuck I've been watching too many monster movies.
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Maybe.
[Pause while he awkwardly examines his hands. Its a flipped coin between what might reassure or make things worse.]
The thing about monsters, is they're only called that by whatever's afraid of them.
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[There are tears, Chase. Sorry. She's not sobbing or anything, but she is wiping tears away from her eyes]
Fuck, I'm sorry, this isn't fair.
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Come here? It's ok, you're not...stuck.
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It'll look different in the morning.
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I hope so. I hope wherever this is, Scholar figures it out, or I do, or - I don't know.
[She hopes.]
Can I stay with you?
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You kind of are.
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