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[romanovs]

[Remember the creepy cute kid that used to work at the clinic and stalk people? Look, he's all grown up now! Or well, don't look, because this is text, but point being, he has a thought to share.]

Maybe we have been looking for the wrong kind of door.

The Colosseum could be a large fairy circle. It would explain why the Door is so capricious, yes?

Comments

[knifecollecting]

A huge fairy circle? Doesn't that mean we would've had to go through one on our home side?

[romanovs]

But you might not have recognized it, yes?

Or they might have deleted the memory, they like to alter our memories between there and here.

[knifecollecting]

Fairies aren't big. There would've been other signs.

[romanovs]

Why would there have to have been other signs?

[Skittish and volatile little creatures they might be, but if they get a big enough group they can be a formidable, independently acting force to contend with.]

[knifecollecting]

Because I'm not an idiot.

[romanovs]

How is that connected?

[knifecollecting]

If it was a large group of fairies I'd notice something.

[romanovs]

I don't think they have to be around a fairy circle all the time for it to work.

[He actually doesn't know that, though. The problem with fairies (as he knows them) is that they are about as good or bad at communicating with human-shaped people as dogs and cats are. Some concepts can't really be communicated about.]

[knifecollecting]

There are signs.

[romanovs]

What are they?

[knifecollecting]

You're the one who brought fairies up in the first place and you don't know the signs?

[romanovs]

I don't know what signs you saw and recognized, yes?

[knifecollecting]

I didn't see any, which means it wasn't fairies.

[romanovs]

Did you see anyone else?

[knifecollecting]

No.

[Never mind that before a few minutes before she showed up here, it had been years since she'd seen anyone.]