[She pauses, taking a moment to let her shock show.]
[Months?]
[She's been here for a year and four months, but... that didn't carry over back home, did it? It didn't for anyone else...]
[... And that's when she remembers that she'd sort of been on the verge of up and LEAVING when she'd been yanked into Johto to begin with. ... Maybe that's it. It sends a slight stab of guilt through her gut to know that if that's what wound up happening, she did so without so much as a word to him... but then, it doesn't really surprise her, either. She had a tendency to do things like that.]
I-- ... holy crap, Doug, I'm sorry.
It's-- ... uh. Well. I guess it doesn't matter now.
[Raking a hand through her hair, she looks down at the screen with a furrowed brow.]
What they told you is right. This place is-- ... well, it's a different world, basically. Different universe, as far as anybody can figure. Not a bad place, all things considered, but nobody like... came here on purpose.
[She shrugs expressively.]
I woke up here after falling asleep on the couch to some bad fifties movie.
[She pauses for a moment, and then decides... what the heck, she has to tell him sooner or later.]
[Video]
[Months?]
[She's been here for a year and four months, but... that didn't carry over back home, did it? It didn't for anyone else...]
[... And that's when she remembers that she'd sort of been on the verge of up and LEAVING when she'd been yanked into Johto to begin with. ... Maybe that's it. It sends a slight stab of guilt through her gut to know that if that's what wound up happening, she did so without so much as a word to him... but then, it doesn't really surprise her, either. She had a tendency to do things like that.]
I-- ... holy crap, Doug, I'm sorry.
It's-- ... uh. Well. I guess it doesn't matter now.
[Raking a hand through her hair, she looks down at the screen with a furrowed brow.]
What they told you is right. This place is-- ... well, it's a different world, basically. Different universe, as far as anybody can figure. Not a bad place, all things considered, but nobody like... came here on purpose.
[She shrugs expressively.]
I woke up here after falling asleep on the couch to some bad fifties movie.
[She pauses for a moment, and then decides... what the heck, she has to tell him sooner or later.]
That was... over a year ago.
[TIME. WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK.]