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[multivitamins]

[ Someone is doing their best to not look upset, stiff upper lip right? It's not working all that well. Eddie should be happy he survived through the invasion and all, but there's more pressing things on his mind right now.]

My friend Bill is missing. He's a bit taller than me, looks smart and talks with a stutter. Has anyone seen or heard from him?

[ No one has explained the concept of people going home yet, so the idea the friend he looks up to has just vanished is unfathomable.]

If anyone sees him please tell him he's an asshole and I'm going to kill him for this.

Comments

[multivitamins]

Yes, I don't think the Null got him because we'd know. I don't know how we'd know but we'd know.

[ Pauses.]

Maybe? But it's not like he's left a note?

[roseofthetyrells]

[she nods] And he wasn't on their list, so they'd have no reason to target him.

[she pauses as well]

I've--well, I've heard that this place can be cruel when it sends someone home. They can't leave a note or a memento, they're just. Taken.

[multivitamins]

He kept his head down. Bill's probably the smartest out of all of us, so it's a bit weird to think he could have gotten himself into trouble.

[ Eddie isn't sure if it's cruel or not; at the end of the day they still get to go home.] I guess? But maybe not knowing if you're going home or not is better?

[roseofthetyrells]

[she'd be worried sick if someone she was close to vanished with no warning] Better? But the ones left behind wouldn't know what became of them.

[multivitamins]

I guess. Depends where you come from, I mean I know Bill is gonna go home to his parents and back to Derry and school and just normal shit. He's not going to be eaten by some robots or whatever here.

[ Eddie will just keep telling himself it's better this way. It's easier.]

[roseofthetyrells]

I suppose so. It's just--not everyone has a home to go back to.