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[Outside, Hellboy is wading through leaves, which is actually a little more annoying than you'd think, even for someone who's like seven feet tall.

Eventually he gets frustrated with this stupid bullshit and stops moving, taking out his journal to dictate into it.]

Is it usually like this in the fall? This many leaves, I mean. You'd think the trees would run out of them by now.

At least it's kind of pretty. Reminds me of home, almost. Is there anyone else here from New England?

[He turns around at that point to walk back the way he came, back to the castle --

but the path he forged has already been filled in with leaves.]

Son of a --

[Have some incoherent growling over the journal, Paradisa, accompanied by more crunching as Hellboy trudges back to the castle.]

Comments

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[Overhears...

Is behind you...]

New England?

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Aiiieeeee Oh it's you. Are you following me? Have a squint!!!]

Northwest America. It looks a lot like this in autumn.

1/2

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[Maybe. Would you even know?]

Really?

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[........]

What's so new about it?

SURE DID MEAN NORTHEAST

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Noi ... please ...]

Well, it's, er ... England went across the ocean and colonized another continent. The first part they landed on is called New England.

It's relatively new, comparatively speaking.

the tarin keeps going!!

[stompings.livejournal.com]

Ohh!

choohohohochoo!

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[There's a smile from her end-- well, not that you can tell or anything because look at that mask!]

You do realize I know next to nothing about your world!

chugga chugga chugga chugga

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[. . . . . .]

Oh.

Where are you from?

toot toot chhh

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[Way to think everyone's from Earth, gosh!]

Oh, the world of magic users, of course!

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, right. Rude, Hellboy. Rude.

He thinks about that for a second.]

You have more than one world, it sounds like.

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[Again. If you could see past the mask, man. There be coyness all up in here.]

Can you guess who inhabits the other world, Hellboy?

1/2

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Let him ... think.]

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Lol just kidding, he figures it out right away. His tone is a little dry as he answers her.]

Devils?

1/?

[stompings.livejournal.com]

No, that's--

[Wait.]

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[Give her a second.

OH SHE FORGOT ABOUT--]

Oh! Well.

[stompings.livejournal.com]

Haha, okay! I will give you that one! Because we do have hell! And that's where all the best devils live, of course!

ok done

[stompings.livejournal.com]

But, yes! Okay, we have three worlds! The one for the magic users, the Hole-- for the non-magic users, and Hell!

_{I can't believe I didn't count that one..}

uguu

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[If Hell counts as a separate world, then Hellboy supposes Earth has two worlds also! Well, three, if Heaven is real. There's also Underground, where all the little people go. A lot of different worlds -- more than he'd given much thought to, before this.]

You have different worlds for magic users and non-magic users?

gugg

[stompings.livejournal.com]

[Isn't it nice to make friends? They open your mind, man. Even if they use simple logic.]

Yes! Though I have to admit, we kind of have the upper hand in many cases...

ggug

[hellshaped.livejournal.com]

[Maybe ... sometimes ...]

Magic users?