ic contact (quiet place)

[waystation]

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[waystation]

_{[Majima's putting his manners to the test with that one. It feels a bit rude to take a bit of someone's finite resource even when it's being offered to him, but it's also being offered to him, so...? If Majima doesn't mind...]}

If you're sure. I kind of miss tasting something that feels like it came out of a supermarket again. Is that weird? I have some fruit I could trade you for it.

But where does it all come from? It's not like they can just mail order stuff from another world.

_{[Or can they.]}

[justbeingknife]

That'd work out great, actually, long as ya leave yourself some. Feel kinda bad about it if ya came down with scurvy.

Maybe whatever brings us here also sucks up some of the stuff from back home. And they just scoop it up and pile it somewhere.

Hell, when I first got here, I wasn't exactly spinnin' on all cylinders. Wouldn't have let 'em lift all my stuff if I was. Might not've noticed if there was tennis rackets or dog toys or what all else half-buried around.

[waystation]

_{[The first part earns a smile.]}

That suits you better than it does me, with the pirate eye patch and all. It's a deal, thanks. It's nice you'd share. Someone else might have just hoarded it.

I don't know what's weirder, that stuff just magically appeared in your basement, or the natives could have a side business farming for space junk.

I met a woman named Dorothy from Kansas who had a dog named Toto, too. The way you described it reminds me of that story, you know? Getting sucked up in a tornado and ending up who knows where with a house and some slippers.

[justbeingknife]

...Serious? But yeah, I know what ya mean. Sometimes this all feels like some kinda crazy science fiction story. Or a dream.

[ Sometimes, more like a nightmare. ]

They probably keep all the good space junk for themselves. Y'know, like the lasers and jet packs.

Actually, Eddie and Richie were both on a space station before this, right? So maybe we really will get a piece of that action.

[waystation]

Along with the manual for the Reset Room.

_{[One of many secrets the natives either don't know enough about, or don't trust them enough to tell about. The random items showing up are weird at any rate.]}

That's right, Eddie told me about that. I think I would've preferred to go there and see stars and float around.

_{[... The good kind of zero g floating, not the bad killer clown variety.]}

[justbeingknife]

Yeah. Although...

I guess the stars around here ain't so bad.

[ They were kind of nice, actually, and you could see them without having to drive outside the city to escape all the light pollution. The exact opposite of Tokyo. ]

[waystation]

That's true. I didn't think much about stuff like that in New York.

<sub>[Before his life flipped upside down.

He'd thought something similar in Mid-World, how bright the stars had been without the lights of the city to compete with, how quiet and still it was without a single humming telephone pole.]</sub>