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[The handwriting is disguised, and the picture obscured. The message is as anonymous as possible.]

If there is anyone returned from a kidnapping or being threatened who does not feel safe in his or her home, speak to anyone at the Welcome Center and they will direct you to a safe place to stay until things are better.

If you wish to volunteer to house someone, you will need a reference from a trusted member of the community.

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[A few minutes later, he uncovers the camera and starts a new message, spoken this time.]

Alexis Rodgers has been sent home. At least I assume as much--no one has seen her and her flat is empty. It's good. She was very homesick, and...

[A pause. There's nothing really to say after that. He doesn't sound greatly distressed, but there's definitely a certain melancholy.

He'll be at the library this afternoon, and Good Spirits tonight. Missing Dawn, mostly. He'll occasionally walk through the item shop, killing time looking for little gifts to pick up for her. At some point, he'll go see Ingrid in the clinic. In the evening, he'll pay a visit to Jack Sparrow's house on the beach. He's there to see Horatio, of course.]

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Well yeah, I totally get how it works, man. I just meant for me, yeah?

...Yes, I see. The same way I'm twenty-six while I was twenty-five when I arrived.

Exactly! And I'm eighteen now. If I just say I'm that and the year I'm from, they'd totally get the wrong idea for what year I was born in. [Not that this matters... but somehow time not moving at home is an uncomfortable idea, even if it IS under threat of an extremely powerful mutant.]

...Where are you from, by the by?

Besides New York? [Since he already said that...] Germany. A small village called Witzeldorf.

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[What? American and German accents do not sound alike at all.]

I see. I've never had the pleasure of visiting Germany.

Well I've never been to England either. I kinda missed that mission.

You should go, when you go back home. I know you won't remember I suggested it, but...

Ahh, maybe if I keep telling myself to go, I'll at least want to go there subconsciously!

[And heck, if any memories somehow stick around, the Professor will dig them out.]

Perhaps.

[Whatever "subconsciously" means.]

Or maybe I can just check it out in the Dome instead.

...The Battle Dome can show England?

Oh, totally. You can go pretty much anywhere, yeah? Of course you have to fight people in there, too.

That's always the trouble, isn't it? I don't exactly consider battle to be a form of leisure.

I guess it depends on how you look at it, yeah? [It's all one big video game for Kurt. Though... not as much as it used to be.]

Perhaps. [Though Archie can't imagine another way to look at it.] Though you know what it's like now, don't you? Real battle. Is the Battle Dome anything like it?

... not really. In the Dome, you know you can't die. In fact, you don't even get hurt if you don't want it to.

[It may not prepare you for life and death... but it helped, he won't deny that. Just like the Danger Room.]

[A thoughtful pause.] Possible, then.

It's good training, at least. I would have done a lot worse in the draft if I hadn't been playing with swords in there so much.

I've a sword-master here, happily enough. If you'd like to practice together, it might have an advantage over...

[Um. What do you call what's in the Battle Dome?]

[Someone to practice against, huh? Well he does have Mikage, but...]

Pirates... musketeers, samurai, vikings, robots, and other stuff. [He likes to keep it just a tad bit exciting.]

Which are not real.

Real enough. It's how the Professor trained us... kind of.

[The difficulty was higher, teamwork was a major focus, and they weren't quite as extravagant... but close enough!]

[Have a silence, then a noncommittal noise that screams "I am not convinced."]

Not convinced, yeah? No worries, man. I've got more than just using a sword at my advantage.

[And when it comes right down to it... the battle dome is the only thing that can adequately challenge his mutant abilities.]

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