Thirty-First Gate [Dictated]

[forsometimenow]

Blissey...

[Marie's voice over the journal sounds worried as Jennifer opens it up to dictate into it.]

... the clinic is still in the same place it moved to two months ago, right? I'm having trouble finding it... I've been walking back and forth where it should be, and I've looked in a few other places, but I keep missing it somehow. Anybody else having this problem?

[Unbeknownst to poor Jennifer, she's now on a temporary loss where she can't find or get to the clinic unless someone leads her there- and Blue and Marie don't count. Oh my.]

Comments

[schrodingersghost]

Not really. Can't say I've been to it recently, though.

[forsometimenow]

It's the weirdest thing. I feel like I'm trapped in one of those school dreams where I can't find my classroom even though I've been getting to it fine all semester.

[schrodingersghost]

Huh, that's weird. Hold on a sec, I'm gonna check to see if it got moved.

[forsometimenow]

I'd appreciate it, because this is getting confusing...

[schrodingersghost]

And it looks like its in the same place as normal.

[forsometimenow]

... but I've been up and down this corridor a dozen times. I guess I must be super-spacey today or something.

[schrodingersghost]

Okay, this is getting weird. It all looks the same as normal to me.

[forsometimenow]

Thank you for checking. I think I'll go take a nap and see if I feel better afterward.

[radiantwingedone]

.... Ira tower, yes. Still there...

[forsometimenow]

I don't know what the matter is, then. I've been pacing back and forth...

[radiantwingedone]

... Let me check.

[ It takes a moment, but that is the clinic door opening. Duke will lean against the frame, listening for that pacing. ]

[forsometimenow]

[With the creak of the door, Jennifer stops and looks shocked.]

... Duke. [She moves closer, stops, then looks up and down the hall.]

Now, I KNOW I've been passing this way. So why couldn't I find the clinic door?

[radiantwingedone]

Hmmmn....

[ Don't mind him, he just shut the door again. ]

Now?

[forsometimenow]

[Jennfier takes a step back- and like that, the clinic door seems to be gone again.]

... It's like it disappeared. What's going on?

[radiantwingedone]

[ He won't be rude, the door opens again. ]

Castle, likely.

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer sighed and moved closer to the door.]

Of course. I lost my clinic in town, it only seems natural that I can't find this one now, too. Guess it's a temporary loss.

[radiantwingedone]

.... Hopefully.

Otherwise you will need to take shifts with someone. [ Fortunately, he isn't rude enough to shut the door again. Just barely not rude enough. ]

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer takes the opportunity to enter the clinic herself, not wanting to risk it going away again.]

Yeah... I'll have to have someone walk me here. I have Marie with me, but obviously she wasn't enough...

[radiantwingedone]

... or decide to live in here.

[ If you never leave, you don't get lost trying to find it.

The oddly stiff tone is how he jokes. Sorry, he's not good at it yet. ]

[forsometimenow]

[Jennifer chuckles.]

Well, I practically lived in the town clinic while it was still there, so that wouldn't be anything new.