|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- A ROAD MAP OF ARCTICA--CUP 15--"SPECIAL PHONE THING" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  A Road Map of Arctica  ||  -------> (Cup SRrm015, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "Daptin?" It was Prince Ferrajalt's voice. "Yeah." "Where the hell are ya, man? We thought you were totally out." "I don't know. How did you call me?" "It's this special phone thing. Real expensive. It can reach anyone anywhere. Even in dreams and stuff." "Uh huh." "So can you come back? We found out a lot about what's going on. We know that Sleap has made at least two attempts to pierce Gnoboslast, but so far she hasn't had any luck. We gotta get over to your Land and do something, before she whacks the entire universe." "You know Ferrajalt, the reason I came here was exactly because HERE I don't have to save the universe every five minutes... I just have to go to work, pay my bills, stuff like that." "I don't know, man. Wherever you are, you gotta find a way to come back. This is serious." "Yeah, it sounds it." "CAN you come back?" "I don't know. You got my Warhome?" "Yeah, it's back at Agatha's, but we got it." "If I try for it, I think I'll wind up back in my bedroom there." "In the Warhome?" "Yeah." "Well do it, man! We really need you, bad." I shook my head. While I did want to go back, I didn't want to lose my life here. And since time was running one-to-one, if I went back there, I'd disappear from here. "Look, I'll try later, okay? I think I have to go to sleep to do it, and I just got up! Where's Agatha, anyway?" "She's over talking to this big guy Darnazy Thonc. I think he might have a way to get you back." "Great." Abigail kept looking at me, so I said to her. "Look, let me finish here, and I'll tell you all about it, not that you'll believe me." She nodded and headed back for the living room. "Who was that?" Ferrajalt asked. "One of the two girls I had wild, amazing sex with last night." He laughed. "No wonder you don't want to come back!" "I'll come back." I said. "Hold on, here she comes." "Okay." "Daptin?" Agatha asked. "Yes." "I think we might have a way to get you back, unless you can do it under your own power." "I... I think I might be able to. I'm gonna try later on. Okay? I mean, is it really all that urgent?" "It is." she said after a pause. "By tomorrow at the latest. Look, I can't stay on any longer, this is costing a fortune." "Okay! I told Ferrajalt, if I succeed I'll probably wind up back in my Warhome. I'll try later on, okay? You can call me again if it doesn't work, right?" "Right, but I'll be bankrupt with all these calls." "Look, don't worry, I'll try later, okay?" "Okay. Daptin, these are extenuating circumstances. If Sleap gets through... no one even wants to speculate what might happen." "Okay. I'll see you later, hopefully. Alright?" "Okay. Bye." "Bye-bye." I hung up the phone, went to the living room, and plopped down on the couch. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----