[His brow furrows. Her questions are straightforward, but - Adam doesn't know what to think. Seeing Blue again wasn't uncomplicated to begin with, not when it means she's stuck here and in danger like the rest of them, but this is something else.]
De Chima? I've never heard of it. Did you mean Henrietta?
[Because he knows that time works strangely, he knows that when people come here from home it's like it was just yesterday. She could easily remember seeing him, when for him it's been months. But - De Chima? He pauses, tries to place the name to a memory, but there's nothing. He's never even heard it before.
Adam doesn't know what to make of it, and that makes him uneasy. The gloppy banging against the door doesn't help, either, even if it seems to be weakening in intensity as the creature realizes it can't get through.]
I've been here close to six months.
[And he thinks about others he's talked to, others who had been to other places before. It's a leap to think that Blue would have been, but - it's not impossible, is it? Not when it happened to him, and Ronan, and Noah.]
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De Chima? I've never heard of it. Did you mean Henrietta?
[Because he knows that time works strangely, he knows that when people come here from home it's like it was just yesterday. She could easily remember seeing him, when for him it's been months. But - De Chima? He pauses, tries to place the name to a memory, but there's nothing. He's never even heard it before.
Adam doesn't know what to make of it, and that makes him uneasy. The gloppy banging against the door doesn't help, either, even if it seems to be weakening in intensity as the creature realizes it can't get through.]
I've been here close to six months.
[And he thinks about others he's talked to, others who had been to other places before. It's a leap to think that Blue would have been, but - it's not impossible, is it? Not when it happened to him, and Ronan, and Noah.]
Were you somewhere before this?