Whale Man Tries to Turn Around And Walk Back Into the Rift

[encoreinthedeep]

Type: Text
Sender ID: encoreinthedeep (Ulpianus)
To: Everyone
Subject: Return
Warnings: None

Requesting all available information on how to return to my own world.

[ He sends this message within ten seconds of receiving his shellphone. ]

Comments

[encoreinthedeep]

[ Oh, that username sets him RIGHT on edge - it's too evocative of the Seaborn's march onto the land. With luck, that's just some misguided poetry, but he will have to make sure. ]

'Seems' isn't good enough. Present proof that it does not pass.

[withermarked]

[ What a coincidence: the man whose misspent youth involved spreading the Drowning Song feels some kind of way about 'encore in the deep.'

And about this person being rude, but he knows finding yourself here is stressful. And that he personally took some of this news terribly. ]

I'm afraid the proof we have depends on taking people at their word. Enough people have said that to be their experience, with all different worlds, that it certainly seems to be the case.

Some folks disappear and don't come back. We can only speculate on that, and I dearly hope they're safe.

Some disappear and find themselves home, as if they never left at all. And when they come back here they remember whatever time they were there for. I've seen proof of events in their worlds, injuries sustained there and the like.

[encoreinthedeep]

[ Unfortunately, even radical surgery never cured Ulpianus's case of bad personality.

But he appreciates the detail Faulkner goes into. ]

And you? Have you returned and come back?

[withermarked]

I have not.

[ And that's all he apparently has to say about that, especially to someone new. ]