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[Everyone loves dogs, right? That's why the video opens up with a close up of an adorable Papillon dog wagging her tail happily. She prances in place, circles a few times, and then lies down.

After that, Umber turns the video feed around to actually focus on himself.]

Now that I've got your attention, hi, I'm Umber. I know I'm probably not the only one going through this, but damn if it isn't weird to just blink and find yourself in a city, right?

[Never mind that he's never lived in a place like this before, only passed through, but apparently this is where he lives now? He's not sure he likes that idea very much.]

I mean, I can't be the only one, right? The guy at the booth acted like this happens all the time, but this is the first time I've ever been...I dunno, warped? Teleported? I'm hesitant to call this a kidnapping because it's not like we're tied up or there's a ransom or something.

I say 'we' but I haven't met anyone else who doesn't act like they belong here yet. So let's see some hands, who's out there. Also how long have you been here and does anyone have any ideas about what the hell's going on or how we can get home?

[He pauses for a moment, then turns the camera back to the dog, who's chewing on her paw.] Also that's Butterfly.

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It's nice to meet you both! My name's Rosabella, and I've just gotten here recently too.

Still not sure about the what and how to get home yet, though.

Nice to meet you, too!

I'm sure we can all figure something out eventually. It seems like there's enough of us here to, you know, put our heads together and come up with ideas.

[He was determined to believe that. There was strength in numbers and all of that.]

Not that I know what to try yet besides walking out of here, but I'm sure we'll come up with something.

Exactly. If we all work together, I'm sure we'll be able to figure something out.

[ She's always found that rallying together really helps. ]

I've gone to the library to try and find something there, but it's been pretty normal so far.

The library's a good place to check. I'm gonna head there sometime, too.

Also maybe newspapers and magazines? Maybe they'll have stories about weird stuff. Like, you know, people arriving out of nowhere.

[If anything was story worthy, it sure seemed like it'd be that.]

Hmm...maybe, although they don't really seem to react any differently to us. Other than having a booth that has information ready for anyone who arrives.

That's true. Which kind of makes things even weirder because like, why wouldn't you react to people who've just showed up? I mean, that's assuming they know who we are and recognize that we just showed up.

[At least they weren't being treated poorly because of it, but-]

You'd think reporters would be all over this kind of thing.

That's true too. Unless maybe they're used to people coming from other worlds, though that just raises even more questions.

Hmmmm. Yeah, it does. On the one hand, I have so many questions and there's so much I want to know. On the other, I kind of just want to go home and not bother with everything else.

On the third hand, if they're used to people coming here from other worlds...then what's happened to all of those other people, assuming they're not still here? And if they are still here, does that mean no one ever leaves...

Yeah. And if there are other people here from different worlds, they would have least noticed new arrivals, wouldn't they? But no one else has really reached out.

[ ...then again, there was Jerry... ]

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