「 REMEMBER YOUR APPOINTMENT」

[drawback]

[ It looks like you have an appointment and you have been brought in from the waiting room. There is a chair for your to lounge on--

Wait, are you seeing a shrink? Can't be! You're generally sane... Right?

Right...? ]

The doctor will be right with you. For now, I'll just conduct a general evaluation. Mind if I ask you questions?

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[drawback]

Hello, are you perhaps Ruuri Tsukomiya...? [ This wasn't what he was expecting out of intuition, but you can't judge. He'll just stay on the call to make sure.

He'll look down at Damien as if liking for reassurance. ]

1/2

[disencumberment]

Hm? No, I'm Acelin. The person you are looking for is... in another house? On the other side, I think.

[ Because even after all this time, he's still mooching off Dandre. I'm sorry. Except not really. ]

[unsecure]

Caretaker sounds like a grumpy teenager.

[ ... It's the truth. ]

That doesn't sound like a grumpy teenager.

[drawback]

... I'm sorry, I guess I have the wrong number. Have a nice day. [ Hangs... up. ]

Hm. Did you enter the area code? Since it might have been the same number, but since you're on this side it'll redirect elsewhere.

[unsecure]

I entered it. I know how to make calls to the other side...

[ He looks slightly offended, mostly because he used to call Dandre's from Ruuri's all the time and he looks up with a small frown.

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[drawback]

That's strange then... [ He's genuinely concerned and dumbfounded. ]

Can you enter it again? I'm sorry for the inconvenience this has become. [ He still has to be polite to a kid... ]

1/2

[unsecure]

[ He gives a small huff and takes the phone to punch in the same number--Ruuri's cell phone number. Then he hands it over to Cameron again. ]

[phthartic]

Hello~?

[ hi :) ]

[drawback]

[ Exactly how Cameron feels right now. ] Wrong number.

[ And he hangs up. ] I think there's something wrong with the phone lines...

[unsecure]

Was it a different person? [ Damien feels confused. He was sure that he punched in the correct, same numbers... So why did it get a different person? He looks pretty unsure about it. ]

[drawback]

Yeah. It sounds like a young man instead of a grumpy teenager. [ He sighs... Rubbing his neck with one hand, he's trying to figure out how to get this kid home. ]

He knows you're here, Damien?

[unsecure]

Probably not.

[ Because Damien still wanders off by himself, and this isn't anything new. His phone isn't ringing and it makes him wonder if Ruuri noticed that he disappeared. Not that he wandered off by himself this time...

This is basically a kidnapping, but you can't punish the offender because the perpetrator is a pink-haired abstract being that is as elusive as a Spectator. ]

[drawback]

Do you know your way there? [ This is all... so suspicious, to be quite honest. He's not even sure what to think of this. He can't get in contact with his guardian and it doesn't seem like Ruuri is aware Damien is even here.

Desperate measures... ]

[unsecure]

No. I was teleported here.

[ Something like that. ]

[drawback]

Can you name me the people you know? I might know them, too. [ So he can call them up or drop you off there... And they can help with this stuff.

He is not going to resort to the yellow pages yet. ]

[unsecure]

Uh... Ruuri, Dandre, Sinh, Jin, Acelin, Rease...

[ He doesn't bother listing more because these are the people he hangs out with more often than others. Probably. Not sure if he should list Argenta here because they haven't seen each other that much lately. ]

[drawback]

Those people... [ Aside from Ruuri, he has heard of at least Dandre due to his business conquests of advertising himself and stuff. The rest are kind of hazy.

Either way those live kind of far away. ]

Dandre Ly, right? [ He browses the internet right now. ]

[unsecure]

[ He nods. As Cameron browses the internet, Damien will just sit here and adjust his scarf to its correct positioning. Not much to do until something happens, he thinks. ]

[drawback]

[ He's going to call-- ]

... I keep getting a busy tone. He must be busy.

[unsecure]

Does that mean I'm stuck here for now?

[ He looks so unimpressed. ]

[drawback]

Yeah, unless you want to go wander around. [ Which he doesn't mind, but he's implying you're going with him.

Not on your own.

Damien. ]

[unsecure]

[ Oh. He wouldn't mind that. He looks up and seems interested by this new adventure-like journey--or whatever it's supposed to be. ]

Don't you still have your job to do?

[drawback]

I'm off the clock now. I'm only here for about two hours or so a day. [ He shrugs and goes to pick up his backpack that was somehow there. Yeah. Camouflage backpack. ]

I have class tomorrow, but what's most important is that we get you home.

[unsecure]

I want to wander around, but you say that we have to go home and that you have school tomorrow.

[ he thinks this is a conflict of interests... ]

[drawback]

That's dangerous. [ He doesn't say it in the sense that Damien is like a midget (though that is part of it), but it's also pretty dangerous around anywhere.

Everywhere.

These parts.

Those parts. ]