003 | Chuck Shurley | Day 93

[godsprophet]

[ Good evening, Kore! Amidst all of the new arrivals that have been showing up is a familiar face. Or, well, it would be a familiar face if he hadn't been missing for about three weeks.

Chuck Shurley is standing on the edge of town, looking completely baffled and confused. Like he'd just found himself there without knowing how or why, and so he just... stopped walking. He's tired and he's sore and honestly, he doesn't feel all that great. All he wants to do is crawl into bed and sleep for a few days. He rubs his forehead and he blinks down at the communicator at his wrist for a few seconds. ]

So I, uh... I think I was just kidnapped? By... the scientists?

[ And if he sounds unsure, it's only because he is. It's like trying to remember a dream he had years ago - everything's all fuzzy. ]

Comments

voice;

[enchangement]

But you were already here.

[ Hello, Chuck, get with the program! ]

voice;

[godsprophet]

Well, yeah, but, I...

[ Somehow your words have completely baffled him. ]

...I mean, I was gone. Right?

voice;

[enchangement]

You aren't as easy to keep track of as some others.

You were gone. But you were here before. Making 'kidnapped by scientists' not a new development in your life.

voice;

[godsprophet]

Yeah. [ He says it slowly, like he has to think about it. ] But I... I wasn't kidnapped here, you know? I was kidnapped some place else.

...I think.

voice;

[enchangement]

Do the semantics of location matter?

Kidnapping happened once, and it happened again.

You didn't go home in the interim? Some have, before.

voice;

[godsprophet]

I guess you're right, yeah.

[ He shakes his head. ]

No. Or, I mean. If I didn't, I don't remember it.