ƒ018. can't buy me love

[msattentionspan]

[She's been keeping quiet since the reunion - whatever it was - ended. Having new memories and going to sleep in a prison cell and waking up in a night club isn't the norm. It's an adjustment, but she manages figuring it out. The castle, the people here, the journals - it's all things that she knows of but hasn't seen for almost a year. At least, it feels like almost a year.]


I'm not sure if not being related to everyone was a good thing or not -- but at least it's over.

[There's a lot of hesitation here. Mostly, she's trying to work out how to word this.]

People that get sent home - anyone been away for a long - [She stops. Starts again.] If you've gone home, what's the longest you've been back home before you're back here again?


Anyone that helped Steve recently ]

I read that Steve's in a coma or knocked out -- is he still in the clinic? Anyone been checking on him?

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[whatialways_do]

[Oh. It's you.]

Yeah. Still out cold -- has been all week.

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[msattentionspan]

[She doesn't recognize the voice, it's been a while since she's been in the castle. Still she can pick up on the tone. Her chin lifts a bit as she replies.]

Anyone figure out what happened?

[whatialways_do]

[She's trying to be civil. Who Steve makes friends with is his business, and his friends have the right to know how he's doing.]

Not yet. Harmony found him out by the duck pond after we all got back from Crazy Town. No one came forward to say they knew what happened.

[msattentionspan]

[Huh.]

Thanks for the information. [Maybe she'll visit him...]

[whatialways_do]

No big.

[msattentionspan]

Think he'll come out of it alright?

[whatialways_do]

Yeah, he'll be fine. Just a matter of him waking up.

[msattentionspan]

This a week thing or longer?

[whatialways_do]

Probably just a week thing, though depending how long, the castle might keep him out for longer.

[akito]

I spent a bit over half a year at home, but it was only five weeks here.

[msattentionspan]

Five weeks? Out cold, in a coma?

[akito]

Un, yeah. It was a coma as far as I know. There wasn't anyone to ask though.

[msattentionspan]

Sounds kinda screwy, even in this place.

[akito]

Does it?

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, most people I hear talking about it are out for a week tops.

[akito]

Really? How weird..!

Maybe it was so long for me because I was injured beforehand, so my body needed the time to recover... [ except that a totally unsupervised coma kind of sucks for that... ]

...Actually! I think it's very lucky that I didn't die while in the coma.

[msattentionspan]

Yeah... okay, then.

[ontheclockpro]

I'd take it as a good thing, that whole thing was messed up.

[msattentionspan]

Yeah, seemed a bit too touchy feely for me. [a beat] Except I was some easily excitable tour guide.

That isn't my typical day.

[ontheclockpro]

An easily excitable tour guide?

That's...disturbing to imagine.

[msattentionspan]

[She laughs -- YES, laughs.]

Even more disturbing to remember doing. Smiling and being nice to people... guess the castle really wanted me to pay full price for my trip home.

[ontheclockpro]

Probably.

How long did you go home?

[msattentionspan]

[Oh... she probably should've remembered that Reno knows these things.]

Close to a year... [She tries not to have an exact date, because that means she's actually keeping track while inside, but she knows that she's kept track.]

Reno ]

Long enough to end up behind bars for a while. Guess this place is my yard time.

Faith

[ontheclockpro]

That long huh...

[There's a lot he could say to that, but..]

Better or worse than being a tour guide?

Reno ]

[msattentionspan]

The prison part or being back here? [She tries to avoid the question, but she gives up easily.]

Leading tours of some camp town... it wasn't too bad. Gotta say though, if I didn't have that go-get'm attitude I would've just stayed away from the whole thing. If I'm gonna make people follow me it won't be around some lake.