[Two days into Fridge Liminal]

[professorwolf]

Sorry to bother everyone, but I'm having a bit of a problem. Some of you may know I picked up a somewhat awkward but sometimes useful ability in the city of Melasurei-- I occasionally get flashes of the future in brief, context-less visions. And right now that ability won't leave me alone.

It's the same thing every time: standing on one side of a glass wall, with several others on the other side, unable to reach us-- there are hands pressed to it on either side, but it's impermeable.

I have never actually seen anything metaphorical before, it's always an exact representation of something that may happen. So... I'm wondering if anyone's seen a glass wall around here? Or run into one, I suppose, seeing as it may be a bit hard to see. And if we haven't... perhaps we'd best keep an eye out for one.

And before anyone asks, no, it's not the shelves in the giant refrigerator. I know what those look like.

Comments

[professorwolf]

I think it's more likely we'll either never go home, or we'll go home exactly as we left, without any time having gone by at all. But anything's possible.

[Now he's curious, though.]

Are you particularly worried about so much time passing?

[memoryandtheft]

The not going home part, I'll buy. Do you have any evidence to support no time passing, or is that just optimism speaking?

[There's a pause, as though she's considering and rejecting answers.]

Going home after everyone you've known and loved has either died or forgotten you isn't really going home.

[professorwolf]

That's certainly the truth. My question, I suppose, was more why you thought that might happen. I mean, there has been evidence that, if the worlds we visit are real worlds, the Trumps have control over our placement in time. We've visited the same worlds more than once, at different times, not necessarily related to the amount of time we experienced. But sending us back at the moment we were taken seems to me to be the most logical, and causing the least amount of damage to the worlds we were taken from, since they do seem to care about that to some extent in the worlds we visit.

[memoryandtheft]

It's sort of a mythological staple. Mortal gets whisked away to some mystical realm, parties for a while, joins on a few quests, and comes back home to find out the great grandchildren have great grandchildren.

[professorwolf]

So you're looking at the Trumps more like faerie creatures than, say, aliens or amorpheous beings.

[memoryandtheft]

What can I say? My preferences in outlandish fiction have always leaned more Spenser than Spielberg.