Is it a reminder? Or a message of some kind. They knew enough to leave that letter and...
[Even though she answered the question, and is present to recognize the asking of it? Fred is still clearly lost in her own thoughts. One hand hovers just over one of the skulls, almost touching? But not quite]
We always assumed we went back. Back right to the moment we were taken from. [And while Fred's never understood exactly why everyone was so certain of that, it's long been accepted as true] But they --
They didn't go back. They're still...[Again, her gaze flickers at the couples and groups that surround them] They're still here. So what then? What happened to their friends and their families and their timeslines? To their lives? Are they just missing, now?
[That skull, still not touching it]
Did I walk by her face, posted at a grocery store somewhere? On a lamppost? And not even wonder what that meant?
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[Even though she answered the question, and is present to recognize the asking of it? Fred is still clearly lost in her own thoughts. One hand hovers just over one of the skulls, almost touching? But not quite]
We always assumed we went back. Back right to the moment we were taken from. [And while Fred's never understood exactly why everyone was so certain of that, it's long been accepted as true] But they --
They didn't go back. They're still...[Again, her gaze flickers at the couples and groups that surround them] They're still here. So what then? What happened to their friends and their families and their timeslines? To their lives? Are they just missing, now?
[That skull, still not touching it]
Did I walk by her face, posted at a grocery store somewhere? On a lamppost? And not even wonder what that meant?