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[A video feed turns on and shows a tired looking middle aged man with brown hair. It's taken him awhile but apparently you can use this thing for messages? It meant ...well talking to people and right now he'd rather just close his eyes and try to figure out why he was breathing. But well, you can't put everything off.

He sighs and trying to ignore the strange creature jumping up and down on his bag behind him, speaks up]

Well so far this has been the better of the two towns I’ve woken up in. Things don’t seem to be trying to kill me as much as they did in Silent Hill anyway. Less fog and snow too....

I don’t suppose anyone would know a way for me to get home would they? My daughters still out there and I need to find her before... Well , I need to find her. Or find out what happened to her even if I can’t go back.

[He sighs, knowing he’ll regret it if he doesn’t ask.]

Also, was anyone dead before they woke up here? Because I’m really sure I was.

...Quite sure actually.

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I've seen a few on the road.

_{[Traveling trainers with performing Pokemon...]

[But the question, in any case, makes Heather swing in a slightly more relevant direction.]}

How much do you know about this place so far?

_{[He mentioned people had already talked to him... new folks DID tend to get slammed with either welcome-wagon informants or people going "yes you're stuck here so suck it up and stop whining" right off the bat.]}

Not much. Just that these things apparently fight each other. Strange things happen here once a month and that I should read a pokedex or something along the lines.

[He still has to figure out how Lisa would fight anything.]

... Well, there's a liiiiiittle more to this place than that.

_{[Not that she could blame people for simplifying...]}

I've... kinda been here awhile.

So I'll-- ... I'll help you get the hang of things.

_{[... Assuming, again, that this was real. Not not just wishful thinking on the part of her unconscious mind. ... Or a ghost Pokemon messing with her head.]}

Alright.

Where are you now? Someone mentioned a city?

I'm in a city called Goldenrod. It's... a pretty long ways from New Bark.

_{[... A pause.]}

You are in New Bark, right?

I think I am?

[Looking around.]

Someone said something about maps.

[He hates maps thanks to Silent Hill.]

_{[Heather has learned the virtues of MAKING HER OWN because hot damn, that had saved her life on more than one occasion.]}

If it's a teeny-as-hell neighborhood with a little science lab and... houses, and nothing else, it's New Bark. _{[The place wasn't a town so much as one of those little self-contained clusters of houses with a pretentious name...]}

Anyway, uh-- there IS a map function on this thing-- see the green button under the screen?

Press it.

_{[... And she'll just be here praying that he doesn't techno-fail and accidentally end the video feed or something.]}

Then yes. That's where I am.

[And he's going to press it. Okay.

Map.]

....I don't suppose I can mark on this though, can I?

[How will he mark all the locked doors?]

... No, dad. No, you can't mark on it.

_{[THIS IS LIKE THE TIME SHE WAS TRYING TO TEACH HIM ABOUT THE INTERNET. But in any case, don't worry Harry. In this world, all the locks are NOT broken.]}

Most of this place is wilderness anyway so there's no, like... streets to navigate. Anyway, if you zoom out a little, you should see a few cities and towns marked.

See that big one labeled to the northwest, kinda next to the ocean? That's Goldenrod.

_{[It wasn't HELLISHLY far away from New Bark, but it was... pretty far. :(]}

[Hey, it's not his fault. The internet is complicated.

...and he doesn't trust it.]

Right.

[He does so and....]

Might take me some time to get there.

[Like he's not coming to find you.]

_{[Hey, just because Heather happened to click on a site with naked people on it while Harry was looking over her shoulder that ONE TIME...]}

I'll meet you halfway. ... Or-- ... or borrow a Pokemon big enough to ride on and send it to get you. Or something.

That'll shave the time down by a good coupla weeks.

_{[Likewise, Heather's not about to leave him in the lurch and sit around waiting like Princess Peach or something.]}

Edited 2011-04-16 22:32 (UTC)

[He's more worried about people finding them through it. But yes. That got the line face.]

....We'll figure something out.

When do you suggest I start walking?

_{[IT'S NOT HER OR THE INTERNET'S FAULT SHE FORGOT TO TURN THE SAFE SEARCH ON, DAD. JEEZ.]}

Okay. I've been around here for awhile so I'll walk you through it whether I'm there or not. First place you wanna get to is Cherrygrove. It's a little teeny town by the beach about four days west of you down Route 29.

... You'll need to spend a few nights camping. But it's-- ... not that bad. 'Specially now that the weather's warming up. _{[... Jeez, how long has Heather BEEN here?]}

Once you get THERE, there's places to buy food and supplies and stuff.

[No more internet.]

Four days, got it.

So berries till then.

[Or after that too...he's not even sure if he has any money.]

Heather...how long have you been here?

_{[BUT HOW WILL SHE SURVIVE WITHOUT E-MAIL.]}

Ber-- ... oh. Oh. Dad. Whatever you do, DON'T eat any of the big weird-colored berries. If you can find the normal, little ones that look like stuff from home, those are fine, but the big baseball-sized ones on the little bush-trees? Don't eat 'em. _{[They LOOKED tasty, but not only were they not, but half of them made your body want to kill itself and the other half sent you on trips worthy of Woodstock.]}

And, uh--

_{[She pauses a little. She supposed she'd have had to break the news that it's been quite awhile since his death in her timeline to him eventually...]}

... Almost a year.

[Even better. He makes a mental note of the berries.]

Alright.

.....a year?

[He blinks and then realizes the question he should be asking.]

Heather...how long has it been for you?

_{[There's a brief silence on Heather's part as she averts her eyes and rubs the back of her neck awkwardly.]}

... I finished high school about a month and a half before I was brought here.

.... M'turning nineteen this summer.

Heather....

[Harry falls silent at that. What do you say when you realize you've missed two years of your daughters life? What about the fact that he should be missing all of them, not just two?]

_{[Yeeeeaah. Heather's not quite sure what she should say to mitigate that.]}

... But I was doing okay.

Working. And... stuff.

_{[She's not sure she wants to mention that she hadn't tried to apply for colleges. After losing him, and... well, after Silent Hill, just finishing her last year of high school on her own had seemed a daunting and difficult enough task.]}

... The apartment doesn't really feel like home anymore, though.

Edited 2011-04-17 00:02 (UTC)

I'm glad....

[He sighs because he's not sure what to say...]

It doesn't.

I want you to have a good future Heather. Enjoy life. Even if I'm not with you at home, I want you to be happy.

I know.

I--

... I was kinda-- _{[Well, okay, she hadn't been happy. She'd mostly been sitting there wondering what the hell there was for her to DO in the world that she had saved that night. It was funny-- a year before, the possibilities had seemed endless. Then-- blank. She had nothin'. It hadn't been permanent, she had confidence that she'd figure out what to do EVENTUALLY. But right there, before she'd come to Johto, she was very much smack dab in the middle of "I graduated high school. I'm living on my own. I can do whatever I want. .... NOW what?" state.]}

... Would ... would you be mad if I... moved somewhere else?

That place is just... it's not the same anymore.

_{[No matter what she did, nothing would ever erase the memory of walking into the room and finding his body.]}

... IF I ever wind up back there, anyway.

I wouldn't be mad sweetie. In fact I think that might be a good idea.

[He understands all too well.]

_{[The way the corners of her mouth curl upwards isn't quite a smile, but it's close to one.]}

Thanks, Dad.

I think I just... needed to hear it from you.

_{[She'd stayed both because it was the last place they'd shared together, and because-- ... well, who the hell was gonna let a highschooler buy their own place? In any case...]}

No one's come after me since... since everything went down that night. ... But finding another place probably won't hurt.

... Just in case.

[He nods. Just starting to realizes that she'd probably never have gotten the chance if this place hadn't dragged him here.]

Well that's one good thing about being dragged back from the dead.

[He tries to keep his tone light, with a small smile.]

Is there anything else you need to hear from me?

_{[There were a lot of things Heather would probably have never gotten the chance for without this place.]

[In any case, she's all for lightening of the tone.]}

Uh-- yeah, like, everything?

_{[The almost-smile turns to a real one.]}

But I think we'll have time for that.

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