.09. [VOICE] i return

[tangentdarko]

I gotta admit, I didn't really think I'd be coming back here. I think I got trapped in some kind of time loop, because I went back there just to come back here again and I.. I experienced the same thing over again there anyway. Who cares if I die again if I'm going to come back here to be redeemed? Again. [...] You can't just.. take a person away for a month and expect them to come back all eager to change. I didn't wan-- [...]

Okay. I'd rather be here than just.. gone. It's like chapter seven said.. "The Manipulated Living will do anything to save themselves from Oblivion." Grandma Death was right. I don't want to fall into Oblivion. I'd rather be here.

[Long pause.]

Are Paddy, John, and Warren still here?


[Fail!Private to Tommy, meaning public:]
Hey, Tommy.. Are you still my warden? I know it's been a month, but I didn't really have a choice to leave and I don't want to come back and start all over again unless you moved on and you want me to start over..

Comments

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

Scientist. And...it really has been a while.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Wait.. How do I know you're not affected by that opposite flood thing?

What's the punchline to the joke with the cowboy?


I couldn't help it, you know? The Admiral sends me home for a month, I have to go home. It's not like I could just come back whenever I wanted. I had to close the tangent universe again.

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

'First, we assume a spherical horse in a vacuum,' I believe.

Again?

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Good job, man.

Yeah. The closing of the portal in the Tangent Universe was what brought me here the first time. I wasn't in the artifact, but I became the manipulated living and I think that meant I wasn't the living receiver, because she said that the living receiver got supernatural powers and I don't remember having any of those, except for the time at the school, but I don't really remember that either. I think Frank was the living receiver and I was the manipulated living because that just.. it just makes more sense.

The primary universe apparently got a hole torn in it again or something because I went back there and woke up in the golf course like I did that first time when the jet engine crashed into my room and then I relived the same month that I had before I died.. twenty-eight days and almost seven hours, technically. Frank was there again but it was like he didn't remember the first time and I knew I had to go along with the same thing because otherwise I might have derailed the mission and then the Primary Universe wouldn't have been restored..

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

[And he stares because he got only about forty seven percent of that.]

Well. Then you have done what you needed to.

Again.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but why?

I'd kinda like to understand it, you know?

[ourlastbesthope.livejournal.com]

'Why' isn't really what I deal with. I'm focused more on 'how.'

So...I don't know.

[tangentdarko.livejournal.com]

Okay, then how. If I closed the Tangent Universe and died to restore the artifact to the Primary Universe, how did I go back there again?