001; call me if anyone interesting shows up.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[dictated]

[first, there’s the panicked gasp of someone going from peacefully asleep to bolt-upright wide awake]

Simon?

[and the soft, muffled chaos of bedcovers being dug through and thrown around]

It’s not- they took her away, stole her in the night, I can hear them- shhhhh, don't speak, don't make a sound, there are pieces but they're broken, everything's broken, she can't-

[-breaks off into something that's half a sob]

-find her, lost and floating everything's floating

[and then, finally, a moment of silence.]




[quiet, miserable:] I can see you.

Comments

[kinky-stopwatch.livejournal.com]

Miss, are you alright?

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

Subjective makes for an inaccurate definition. Can't be quantified.

We're all floating.

[Translation: no.]

[kinky-stopwatch.livejournal.com]

Do you know where you are? It might help stop the floating.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

It's a castle.

[DUH IANTO.]

[kinky-stopwatch.livejournal.com]

Yes.

But knowing a little about the castle and its inhabitants may give you something to grasp to, unless you make a habit of waking up in strange castles?

I HAVE TO GO NOW BUT I WILL TAG SOON

[encryptedlock]

[No way. No fucking way.

...


Yeah, no, that's definitely her again.]

River? You have returned.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[WTFFFFF]

[encryptedlock]

[And then there's a different voice. Because clearly he's thinking straight now and wants to have as little confusion as possible. (Sorry, River.)]

River! This place, it takes our memories away. You were here before, and we were friends, but you probably don't remember us now.

[...]

I'm York.

And I am called Delta. I am...glad you have returned.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[a little blankly] It's a split.

[encryptedlock]

Close. Not quite. Two minds in one body, yeah, but we can separate if we need to.

[endofdestiny.livejournal.com]

[Seeing as Lyra showed up thinking she'd been kidnapped, too...
dictated quietly]
You probably weren't stolen by who you think.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[a little blankly, like she's repeating after Lyra:] Doesn't mean what you think.

[endofdestiny.livejournal.com]

I'd heard of other worlds before I came here, but I en't never heard of this one.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

It's not.

[endofdestiny.livejournal.com]

Not what?

[charmandsmiles.livejournal.com]

...River?

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

It's the common assumption.

[charmandsmiles.livejournal.com]

[chuckles] Welcome back. I'm the Doctor, by the way.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[twogirlsonetuck.livejournal.com]

[Sounds... happy!] Yo, River! Knew you'd be back to see me, babe!

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[To quote another reply: WTFFFFFF]

[bro-codebreaker.livejournal.com]

[oh yay, just what this place needs, another Crazy Girl. taps at his journal]

Don't tell me they put webcams in here, now?

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[NO SRSLY WTFFFFFF]

[bro-codebreaker.livejournal.com]

[and radio silence is always SO GOOD for communication]

Okay, let's try that again. [carefully] Hi. I'm Barney.

[ninjasinspace.livejournal.com]

[agreeably] Okay.

[RIVER IS SO GOOD AT COMMUNICATING, REALLY.]