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[When the screen turns on, Garrett is nowhere to be seen. The video is facing outward and quite shaky, but some people will still recognize that he's in the infirmary. As he sees the video is finally working, he breathes a sigh of relief and turns the video back towards himself, jarring the video a little bit. Though it's hard to read emotions on a face half-covered, it's clear that he's scared and trying very hard not to show it.

His voice, still young despite his attempt at sounding more mature, has a peculiar accent to it when he speaks. His words come out stilted without the use of contractions.]

Do not like it in here. Smells wrong, like old blood. Feels wrong. Reminds me of back home, when bodies do not get buried right after battles and then you end up with places full of dark magic. Hell, do any of you know what I am speaking of? So many differences here from home. And I found this.

[The video swings back out again until it focuses on a very large footprint indented into the floor. This is what has gotten him so shaken up. There's an inappropriate, hysterical laugh from Garrett, the kind someone makes when they don't know how to handle a situation emotionally any longer.]

What big beast made that? And is it still around?

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I don't know what made that. I've been doing my best to clean the infirmary up. Or at least I was the last time I was here.

Hello. I'm Martha.

Last time? 'Nother one who left and then came back and does not know how, yes?

[This is the third one he's talked to in the last few days. An idea is beginning to form in his mind. Pretty soon, he's going to think there's a teleportation beam that strikes at random to sends people back.]

That would be correct. Ended up home. Thought this place was a dream. Lived back home for two years and came back here to find out it wasn't. It'd only been two days here.

Two years, but only two days?

[He clutches his head with both paws in a manner that suggests this new piece of information broke his brain.]

Gods playing around with time and creating who-only-knows what kind of monster in here. We are all doomed.

I know. Time doesn't always make sense to me either.

So far I've not seen any monsters down here. But there's definitely something messing with us.

I think it is gods. Cruel and also very bored gods. Would explain a lot of the stuff going on 'round here.

I was thinking possibly aliens. There are some that will take you for seemingly no reason.

What is an alien?

[These people keep using so many new words. It is beginning to make him feel quite ignorant.]

[Well that wasn't the reaction she expected. Watch her eyebrows shoot up.]

An alien? Is... a being from another world. Another planet really.

Oh?

[It's hard to tell with most of his face covered, but Garrett's brow is crinkled in thought. He hadn't given much thought to how many beings here were from different worlds, many from this place they called Earth.]

Hmmmm....suppose everyone here is an alien, from one of point of view or another.

Yes. That is actually a very good point. Though most people here are from my home, so very few seem to be aliens to me. And, humans from other planets are still humans and not aliens to me.

Supposing I was to ask you where I fall in there, what would the answer be? [He gestures to his hide with an obvious air.] I am a little more different than most humans.

You're not human then. Do you live on Earth?

No. The Western Front. None here have heard of it. Hot, dusty, full of magic, Rath, Skinwalkers, and me.

[Martha shook her head.] The only Western Fronts I know of all relate to a war in my world from long ago.

Then to me you are an alien, but conversely, I'm an alien to you I suppose.

[She smiles as she says it.]

Little bit an alien to me, yes. I never heard of Earth before I got here. Sounds boring compared to the Front.

Not the Earth I'm from. We've had plenty of alien invasions in the past few years.

[Well, Earth just sounded a lot more interesting than Garrett had been assuming. Invasions are something he can understand. There never seems to be enough space back home for all the various groups wandering around.]

Sounds like the type of place that keeps you are on your toes. Did the aliens win in invading? Or did the humans?

None of them ever won. Seemed like it at points, but the Doctor and I were always there to stop them.

Teamwork always gets better results then going it alone. I approve!

Yes it is. Unfortuantely, most of my teammates are not here.

Most? You got people you know from back here with you?

[There's a twinge of jealousy in his voice.]

I do, yes. [There's a slight pause.] Some people have friends from home, others are quite alone. There's no rhyme or reason.

Better to be alone then have people from my home here. They would all go crazy 'n shoot the place up.

[Or, gods forbid, this place might drag something like a Sorcerer here. Then they'd all be screwed.]

Then it is perhaps better none is here. But it must be sad for you, not having anyone.

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