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Dolores Abernathy (backonline) wrote in thedisplaced,
@ 2020-02-17 23:35:00

Entry tags:

clint barton / hawkeye (ds), doctor (12), dolores abernathy, klaus hargreeves, nebula (mcu), seivarden vendaai, waverly earp

Excuse me, I-

Oh, I dropped it. Hello? Is this thing broken?

My name is Dolores. I'm not sure I understand where I am. The kind folks at the... bureau tried to explain it, but I'm afraid so little made sense to me and so many words I've never heard before. My head isn't feeling quite right. Texas is a bit far from home, yet I've found my ranch and my horse as if somehow all the land has shifted overnight. My parents are missing, and our herd seems to also be lost. I'm afraid they won't know the way back.

Is this real? Where is Sweetwater? I was meant to go into town this morning. Has the train come by yet? Maybe there's still time to get back before dark.

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	backonline 2020-02-18 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	Hello, Seivarden. That is an unusual name, I have never heard anything like it before. Are you from elsewhere too? I do not understand. There is only one world. I just happened to end up in the wrong place in it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

vendaai
2020-02-18 11:39 pm UTC (link)

It's a name from another time and place. Another world and another planet.

I'm afraid that's not true. There are many worlds. Most people live in only one their whole lives, and it's the only one they know. Perhaps we're not meant to see more than one. But the group of us that's been brought here, we'll be in at least two.

How far is Sweetwater from Texas, do you know? Perhaps it would help to go there and see the difference. Although that may be quite a lot to take in, too.

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	backonline 2020-02-19 12:29 am UTC (link)
	... Are you quite all right, sir? You must have hit your head. I can ask for the doctor. I don’t know how far. I don’t know. I’ve never left it. I wasn’t supposed to leave. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 12:30 am UTC (link)
	I'm perfectly alright. Sorry. Didn't mean to overwhelm you. Is Sweetwater a city? Do you know what country or state? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 12:54 am UTC (link)
	I admit everything has been such a shock to take in. And apparently children are being kidnapped too? Has somebody gone to the sheriff? It’s a town, a settlement in the desert of the western United States. Where the mountains stretch on for days. It’s very lovely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 12:59 am UTC (link)
	Not sure about the sheriff, but the bureau is definitely looking into that. It looks like there's a Sweetwater here in Texas, a township Sweetwater in Nevada, and a Sweetwater River in California. Do you know the name of the mountain range? Or any other landmarks? That might help narrow it down. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 01:06 am UTC (link)
	I do hope they find those missing children. Have they been taken for ransom? I... it is near Escalante, the town buried by sand, and Las Mudas. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 01:18 am UTC (link)
	Honestly, I'm not certain. Escalante looks like it's in what we call Utah. Haven't found Las Mudas on a map ~~except in a television show~~ but Escalante might be a good place to start, if you want to go looking for home. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 01:26 am UTC (link)
	Could I take a look at this map? I should prepare my horse to ride out the next morning. My father will be looking for me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Here you go *. It's a mighty far way to go by horse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 01:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 01:57 am UTC (link)
	Yeah. You're a long way from home, I'm afraid. There are trains, still, if that's another mode of transportation you're more comfortable with than, say, cars or planes. Might be faster, or at least easier. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 02:42 am UTC (link)
	When is this? Is this now? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 03:34 am UTC (link)
	Are you talking about the year we're in? It's the year 2020. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 04:36 am UTC (link)
	... This really must be a bad dream. It was only 1873 this morning. Time cannot go by so quickly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 04:40 am UTC (link)
	No, time still works the same. It didn't so much 'go by' as you skipped right over it. Never considered the possibility of time travel before? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 04:44 am UTC (link)
	Sometimes I have felt stuck in the same time, as if the days won’t go by at all. But I never... that can’t be. Time goes by one day at a time as it always has. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	vendaai 2020-02-19 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	I imagine we've all felt that way at least once. Long shifts on watch in the military drag on forever. Time still moves the same way. You've just been plucked from one time and dropped into another. Skipped ahead a bit. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	backonline 2020-02-19 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	Were you a Union soldier? That doesn’t make any sense. I don’t feel any older. I’d suspect I’d be long dead if nearly 150 years has gone by. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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