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[walkersystem]

Action:

[No no no no no no. No. That's not her mom. That's not her mom, and this isn't the airport, and it's another nightmare, it has to be. What else could it be? It's a dream and it's not her dream and that means she's trapped.]

[Anybody in New Bark will likely catch the sight of a little girl slowly backing away from the house she'd woken up in with wide eyes before breaking into a run and coming to a stop next to some trees to dig through her backpack. Except it's not her own backpack. And the things inside aren't what she wants or needs them to be.]

[Which is a big stressor to a kid who has no idea what to do.]


Audio, later:

Hello? Mr- Parkman? I didn't do anything, I promise.

[Spoken with the urgency of children who want to prove themselves innocent everywhere.]

Please let me out.

Comments

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

..Is that so?

[That's... only a little surprising.]

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

Yes. I haven't met him, but I've heard about him.

But maybe it won't work here.

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Maybe.

[She doubted it.]

But, if it does, then this guy just has to come here and break us all out.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

That's what I mean. There's always someone who can do it. There has to be.

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Well, whoever that person is, they haven't shown up yet and I don't think they will.

[She's not going to bet money on this, even if she wanted to.]

We cant just sit around and wait.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

Do you have any idea what to do?

_{[Asked earnestly. If you have a plan, please to let Molly in on the plan.]}

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Uh.

[WELL...

HMMM.....]

Well, we need to keep investigating this world. There's things we don't know yet, things that I think are being kept from us.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

_{[So you don't really have a plan. That's okay, Molly can improvise, but there's still a little downtrodden tone in the way she answers.]}

That's what everybody keeps saying.

Of course we'll keep looking.

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

We can't do much more then that. Sadly.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

I guess.

_{[Pausing, she then adds,]}

I'm Molly.

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

Veronica.

If you have anymore questions, I guess you could ask me. I'm still trying to figure out some of the things that happened around here.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

Have you been here long?

[Audio]

[stitchedupbodyguard]

I've been here about five months. I showed up in August.

[She was just as confused as Molly was. So, to try and lesson the whole confusion and panic thing...]

I know some people who've gone home and come back. They said that things don't change since the moment you left.

[Audio]

[walkersystem]

_{[She frowns slightly. The time is all off. But if time stops anyway, well ...]}

Well, yeah. If time's stopped then I guess it wouldn't.