Well, uh. [He fidgets with the camera, thumb brushing over the record button. You're fine. Don't freak out.] Merry Christmas, I guess.
[He should explain. He owes Tim that much, at least. His voice is still a little too flat, a little too quiet.]
Weird--so, there's this weird thing. There was another...like, I'm gonna assume it's an...It wasn't you, I mean. But there was another, like, "version" of you who didn't do the...castle, archipelago... Came straight here.
He was here longer than I was, and then I guess we both...
[He shrugs.]
They usually call it getting "sent home".
[Is That Place "home", now, for him?]
[He mentions a war in a castle, then an archipelago, which Jay admits isn't a word he ever expected to hear out of Tim's mouth. Doesn't mention Alabama, though.]
Where's, uh, "home", for you?
[He realizes once it's out of his mouth that the words might carry a little more weight, a little more meaning than he intended.]
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[He should explain. He owes Tim that much, at least. His voice is still a little too flat, a little too quiet.]
Weird--so, there's this weird thing. There was another...like, I'm gonna assume it's an...It wasn't you, I mean. But there was another, like, "version" of you who didn't do the...castle, archipelago... Came straight here.
He was here longer than I was, and then I guess we both...
[He shrugs.]
They usually call it getting "sent home".
[
Is That Place "home", now, for him?][He mentions a war in a castle, then an archipelago, which Jay admits isn't a word he ever expected to hear out of Tim's mouth. Doesn't mention Alabama, though.]
Where's, uh, "home", for you?
[He realizes once it's out of his mouth that the words might carry a little more weight, a little more meaning than he intended.]