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[Ty has a scowl on his face when he makes this video, rocking back and forth again in that self-soothing manner as he pointedly does not look at the screen. He's hugging his arm to his chest tightly, knuckles white, and his free hand is held uselessly in the air, at least a dozen small bleeding cuts all over it as he makes squeezing motions with his fingers. He cringes as he does it, looking tense and distressed, but he doesn't stop the movement.]

The library here is pointless. You can't read any of the books. I wanted to find the Sherlock Holmes stories, but it doesn't have them. It doesn't even have a cookbook. I need a cookbook. I don't know how to cook, and I don't want to eat toast anymore, and the stove didn't make the macaroni right. The microwave only makes things explode.

I went looking for animals, and there aren't any I can find in the city. All the animals in the tunnels are big and mean. There aren't any nice animals. All the tunnels lead you right back here. Whoever made the tunnels like that, it isn't funny or nice.

[Ty takes in a deep, trembling breath and lets it out once he's gotten that little tirade over with, then goes back to why he's making this video in the first place.] I need a cookbook. And instructions for the stove.

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You can, but it's not necessary. I'm free all day, and tomorrow as well. Choose a time, and I'll be glad to meet you.

[Shaking his head.] There are a few other groups from the same worlds, I think. But many of us come alone, as well.

I'll go now. [He really wants something else besides toast.]

Does it stay that way? If you don't show up with someone from your own world, will you never see them again?

Then I will see you soon.

[And he'll be bringing a snack for the poor kid. Now what do the elves have in their cupboards, at the moment....]

Not at all. I can say from experience that none of my family came through the Door at the same time. And most of us, I think, hope to return home eventually. If it is within our power, we will make sure you do as well.

[That gets him to relax a bit.] Good. I want to see my brothers and sisters again. Mark just got back and Helen might be coming back too soon.

I would like the same thing, in truth. I have not seen my siblings for a very long time, and sometimes when I see my cousins together I miss them a great deal.

[Huh, that seems a bit odd, unless perhaps his sister has been injured.] Are they coming back from the same place?

No. Mark was captured and was trapped in Faerie. Helen was exiled to a remote island. They're my half-siblings, their mother was a faerie. There was a war five years ago, and the faeries helped the enemy, so when we won the war, Helen was exiled and they didn't try to rescue Mark because the Council didn't care because they were half-faerie. [The more he talks about it, the deeper his frown gets.]

It's not fair - they didn't do anything wrong. They can't help who their mother was. But the faeries let Mark go and we made a deal with them that would allow Helen to come back home with her wife. There was going to be a Council meeting about it... but I was taken here before it started so I don't know what happened.

It would be good if Helen and Aline got to come back home. She's the oldest. Julian wouldn't have to do so much anymore. Mark's older than him but... [And here he looks like he's trying to understand something he just doesn't understand.] Mark can't.