[Video] ectoBiologist has begun pestering prospero....... again.

[theheirofbreath]

[During the dark hour tonight, a memory is played out on all the communicators for anyone who is paying attention. There's been a lot of that going around recently, of course. But the boy this memory belongs to hasn't been seen in this city since sometime in April. Although he may be recognizable to some of you who have been here a while.]

[The memory starts here. and continues here. ]

[About a minute later, the screen comes back on to show the confused face of John Egbert.]

That was....weird. Anybody else ever get sent back where you came from for like, five minutes?

Well... that or I just had the strangest dream...

Comments

[video]

[needsteaplz]

J-John?! Is that really you?

Re: [video] Sooooooooooo late. orz Feel free to ignore.

[theheirofbreath]

Hehe, yep. Last time I checked it was still me...

[He chuckles nervously, not sure why she'd be so surprised to see him. He'd only been gone an hour from his perspective. And he still wasn't a hundred percent sure it hadn't been a dream.]

[video] shhhh /squishes face

[needsteaplz]

A lot of us were worried when you disappeared! Time apparently gets strange here too. When I had disappeared and came back for a day or so, I spent twenty years in my home world.

Re: [video]

[theheirofbreath]

Twenty years?!? Seriously? I was only gone for an hour, maybe two tops! And even that feels pretty weird.

It must be surreal to come back after being home that long.

[needsteaplz]

[She shrugs.]

Apparently some of us who've went home for a while and came back had some time-whiplash. No kidding. What just happened there?

Yeah, I was worried I wouldn't be able to see everyone again.

[theheirofbreath]

I didn't really have time to do much more than talk to my sister and throw a bucket at one of my friends.

So did I miss anything?

[needsteaplz]

I'm...not going to ask why you threw a bucket.

Quite a few things. I opened up a tea house, we've been dealing with our memories leaking onto posts in the network like what just happened there, and there's one other thing. Lately now and then everyone's dreams have been intercepted by these people from "the velvet room". They're claiming to be our allies but we haven't been able to contact them ourselves.

[Voice]

[unknownrival]

You're back! You're really back!

[In other words, :D ]

Re: [Voice] Apologies for the lateness, feel free to ignore. ^^;

[theheirofbreath]

Back...? So I really did leave? That wasn't a dream?

[Voice] Never ignoring ever.

[unknownrival]

No, it wasn't a dream. I missed you.

Re: [Voice] ^____^

[theheirofbreath]

Hehe, but I wasn't even gone that long.

[Really just long enough to get to the other side of the reality wall, level up a whole bunch and toss a bucket containing a heartfelt letter to his friends at Karkat's head.]

[Voice]

[unknownrival]

At least a month or two.

Re: [Voice]

[theheirofbreath]

A month or two? No way! I was only back there for an hour!

[Video

[lunch_ticket_millionaire]

John! You're back too?

Re: [Video

[theheirofbreath]

Too? You mean you also went home? Hey, do you think all the other people who left came back too?

[lunch_ticket_millionaire]

Well, I know V/V's back, at least.

[theheirofbreath]

Awesome! We should see who else is still around and throw a party or something.

[lunch_ticket_millionaire]

Maybe we can even get the band back together!

[theheirofbreath]

Yeah! We never really got it off the ground before.

[Visions of the two of them reenacting scenes from the Blues Brothers are dancing in his head.]

[breatheinthefog]

...

*blink. blink.*

You're back as well.

Latest tag ever..... orz. Feel free to ignore.

[theheirofbreath]

Hehe, yeah....

[He feels bad for some reason. Even though his disappearing act wasn't really something he could control.]

Um..... sorry.

neveeeeeer

[breatheinthefog]

Why are you apologizing? You and the others who disappeared were forcibly taken.

[theheirofbreath]

'Cause I like I kind of disappeared on you.

I got sent back....

[He almost says 'home.' But then remembers that his home isn't really a thing anymore. Even if they won the game, and created a new universe, going back home wasn't ever going to happen.]

.... to where I was before coming here. But only for a little while. I didn't get to do much besides talk to my sister and write a letter to my friends.

[breatheinthefog]

You have a sister, then?

[theheirofbreath]

Huh? Oh, yeah. I do. Hehe...

Did I seriously never mention her?