[Dictated]

[lightbranded]

 [Will stares at the open journal for a long time as he debates what to say.]

I remember myself, now.  I remember who I am, and I remember when I was taken to the castle before. 

Has it been long, here?

[He doesn't say anything about the strange weakness he had noticed in himself.]

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[inafadingcrown]

That is a matter of perspective, is it not? What is long for some is but a moment for others. [And you can just hear the smile in her voice.]

Welcome back, Will Stanton.

[lightbranded]

And to some all times are the same. [His response is full of a quiet happiness at the familiar voice.] All the same, it seems to me that some of it must have passed here.

I am glad to have met you again, Lady Galadriel.

[inafadingcrown]

[A pleased little hum.] I believe it has been half a year, if you wish to know in earnest.

[lightbranded]

I see. It was not nearly that long in my own world.

[inafadingcrown]

It does not surprise me. Such is the way of things here.

[lightbranded]

Has it happened often. The castle taking people back here?

[inafadingcrown]

Not often, yet this is not the first instance I have seen.

[lightbranded]

Goodness, how interesting. Has something altered the pattern, I wonder?

[inafadingcrown]

It seems so, though I know not what. This is the first it has happened without a world change, however.