Post the Ninth: The Rotten Return

[mysilenceknot]

[He’d woken up in many strange beds before, though usually it involved him being chained to said object and the room filling up with water. However this time he soon recognized where he was..]

No. Not again.

I refuse to believe this.

This is all a dream. A horrifying, appalling, ghastly dream.

Any moment I will be woken up by water dripping on my face, or sirens, or any noise that would indicate a better situation then the one I am in now!

[After a few moments he realizes that this isn’t working]

Oh dear.

[Makes his way to the phone sadly. He'd been so close to seeing her...so close...he blinked away a few tears as he picked up the phone.]

Hello, my name is Lemony Snicket and it appears I’ve been kidnapped again. If anyone is aware of how long I have been gone for, it would be most appreciated.

[There’s a pause and he tries to think of who he meet here]

Sophie, Allan, Daine? Are any of you still here?

Comments

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

Lemony? Is that really you?

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

....Sophie?

[He sounds almost relieved]

Yes it's me.... I take it that I am in Mayfield again?

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

...I'm afraid so.

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether I should be relieved or not that I wasn't thrown somewhere entirly different.

Have I been gone long?

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

A few months now.

How are you?

[hourai-branch.livejournal.com]

Hello!

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

[That startles him]

uh...hello?

[hourai-branch.livejournal.com]

I'm Kaguya. You were here before? And you remember?

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was. I was here for a few months at least.

[hourai-branch.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that happened to me, except it was another "me". And I don't remember what "she" did.

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're one of them people who've gone home and come back, yeah?

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

So it would seem.

I knew the town was capable of this before. However this is the first time it has happened to me.

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd welcome y'back, but it doesn't seem right.

I'm Vince Noir, by the way-- don't think we've met before, so y'probably left before I got here. I've been here... 'bout two months. So somethin' before that.

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

A pleasure to meet you. Even if it is in such dismal circumstances. My name is Lemony Snicket.

Might I ask what month it is here?

[numanstan.livejournal.com]

March, almost April.

[braided_icarus]

Lemony...?

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[He blinks as he recognizes the voice]

Edward? Is that you?

[braided_icarus]

Yeah! It's me.

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

Have things been going any better since I was last here?

[braided_icarus]

Oh, as eventful as ever, you know...

[thenorthernwall]

..."Kidnapped again"?

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was brought here once before. The town apparently saw fit to return me and then kidnapp me again.

[thenorthernwall]

...What happened when you left?

[mysilenceknot.livejournal.com]

I was home for a few days. However until they pulled me back here I had no memory of what had happened to me.

[thenorthernwall]

...So you went home? Absolutely, one hundred percent home?