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[cametolife]

[ all the music's stopped. thank god. that was like living below incredibly noisy neighbors who wouldn't shut their music off. not that liz had ever experienced that back home in roswell, but her the family who lived above her aunt's in florida weren't exactly the quietest people. at least they didn't blast music all day long, that would've been intolerable. as it were, she only made it through this recent event by plugging in headphones and settling down with a good book to drown it all out and focus on something else. ]

A question, City. I was wondering... Not counting any of the aliens we have here, because the dimensional shift between worlds is sort of cheating and can make something that isn't reality become a reality... But, yeah, not counting any non-humans you may or may not have met here, do you... Do you believe in aliens?

[ just out of curiosity, of course. certainly, she doesn't want to see if she's not the only one with actual aliens back home. ]

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[conesoldstober]

Please, do call me Howl. And the pleasure is entirely mine.

[None whatsoever. He just likes the sound of it.]

[cametolife]

Howl it is. Are you new to the City?

[conesoldstober]

Arrived yesterday. Still getting a feel for the whole thing.

[cametolife]

Oh, well, welcome! It's not as bad as it might seem. Being here - the City. Curses aside, of course.

[conesoldstober]

You're perfectly content being kidnapped, then? I'm finding the levels of Stockholm Syndrome in this establishment to be quite alarming.

[cametolife]

Of course not! I want to go home and I've been working on finding a way to accomplish that, but it beats what you'd expect an abduction to be like.

[ it sure as hell beats the time nasedo kidnapped her. ]

[conesoldstober]

A gilded cage is a cage still.

At least the weather's nice, I suppose. Could be worse there. We could have been whisked off to the deepest circle of the arctic.

[cametolife]

It gets worse, but it never lasts.

[conesoldstober]

Have you been here for some time?

[cametolife]

Yeah. Since November.

[conesoldstober]

And have you made any attempts at escaping in that time?

[cametolife]

Researching and asking questions is as far as I've been able to get.

[ because she's just a girl. she's not a superhero, a mutant, a slayer, or anything like that. just a determined seventeen-year-old. ]