I think I've heard that you can't go home anymore and that they take something from you.

[ ray sighs, and unseen, shakes his head. ]

I don't know. Whatever we do, it has to be something we'd never plan. Something that he wouldn't see coming, which, is probably everything at this point. Maybe magic?

Maybe go lurk around the magic studies room? I know there are some pretty powerful mages that live here, but I've never had reason to seek them out.

Hey, before you go-- I wanted to apologize. I think I got kind of desensitized to people from home showing up. You deserved more than an infodump from one of the nerd twins.

A year, two months, twenty-six days.

[ yeahhh something like that. ]

[ ray actually manages to sound a little shy about it when he chuckles. ]

It's been a weird year. I've been back and forth a couple times.

I'm not sure I can answer that with any certainty, honestly. The longer I'm here the more I feel like very little happens on purpose. It feels sort of like a glitchy Vanishing Point, if that makes sense.

I wish it did. At least I knew the rules there.