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[11calls]

[Alex, for her part looks entirely exhausted. She still hasn’t recovered from everything, but then again when does Alex Reagan actually sleep. At least her makeup is back so the circles below her eyes aren’t as noticeable as they could be. Sitting in her office on the sofa, Alex has a big gray pit-bull arranged over her legs like a blanket, and she’s absently petting him while she speaks.

Which honestly? She kind of doesn’t want to do it. But this is Alex Reagan, and news is in her blood. So here they are.]

So yeah. This is weird I guess. I’ve been trying to process a bit, but I want to put the story together as much as I can and I need to hear from you guys to do that. From what I know so far, at least from what we’d investigated before everything went back to normal. Or normalish I guess. This definitely still isn’t normal. But there’s no other way to say it.

It seems like the people who went missing, the 237 of them? They weren’t real people. As far as I can tell they never were. Harry Dresden used magic to check if they were, and they weren’t. I was, and I’m assuming that the people who are here still are. But all of their possessions are gone, the missing people’s I mean. We found some of their journals and things, and it was basically just words written over and over. Their voices disappeared from recordings too. I don’t know why.

Max and Laurie and Jon and Annie are gone, but their things are still here. I guess that means they’re coming back? I hope so I mean anyway.

[Alex just shakes her head and brushes the heel of her palm against her forehead.]

I know that for me at least when we went in to talk to the Sphere, it offered me basically a happy ever after if I turned on all of you. I didn’t obviously. Did the rest of you have the same sort of conversation? I. It’s weird. That’s all. It’s just weird.

[Alex is just going to sigh and move on. Because lord this is a lot. But she also know that her own experience isn’t just what happened. ]

I know from Beverly that people going to try and restart things at the power station ended up needing to face nightmare-like things. What else did people need to do?

[A pause and then.]

On a different note, I know that it’s not like an official festival or anything like the sort that we’d normally have here--or at least did I guess--but back home today would have been Thanksgiving. I’ve spoken to some of the restaurant people, and now that the food is back, and the power is on, we’re going to do a sort of… spur of the moment thing tomorrow. People are welcome to come if they want. And to bring things from home for celebrations or whatever. They’ll be things like turkey and pie and potatoes and stuffing. What’d you expect obviously. I hope to see you all there. If nothing else, we deserve a chance to reconnect from things over the last to months.

Um for anyone new here, or [More disturbingly] if you’ve forgotten or something, I’m Alex. Alex Reagan.

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[harrythelizard]

[Harry looks tired, yes, and disappointed? Unfulfilled? It's difficult to say exactly.]

I've got a bad feeling this isn't over.

[Because it's never over.]

[11calls]

[Alex just sighs softly.]

I don't know. I won't feel better until they're back and we know what happened with them.

What do you think is going on, Harry?

[harrythelizard]

I don't know.

[Because he didn't want to entertain the paranoid thoughts that were shooting through his mind.]

...I don't know but I don't think we should trust whoever comes back.

[Not that he could help entertaining that paranoia.]

[11calls]

Shit. I hadn’t even thought about that.

[The frown is audible in her voice.]

If you had your hands on their things from before could you use your magic to figure out if it was them or not?

[harrythelizard]

I'm here to help.

[It's a sarcastic statement. Why else would he bring up something so fatalistic if not to burst bubbles?]

...yeah, probably. I'd have to tweek the spell a bit, but it should be pretty accurate.

[11calls]

[Well, hey Alex is good at ignoring sarcasm. She has to be considering who she's living with after all.]

What do you need?

[harrythelizard]

Hair, nails if possible. If not, something that belonged to them, that meant a lot to them.

[11calls]

Max has his daughter’s doll. It’s in his office in his drawer. Laurie has some medical stuff from home. But the biggest thing would be if John comes back too. She’s a ghost who’s tied to Laurie.

[harrythelizard]

Great. And I can just walk in a grab those things, right?

[11calls]

You should be able to. I mean I can go with you if anyone gives you any shit about it?

[harrythelizard]

You do have a more personable demeanor.

[11calls]

[That just makes her laugh.]

So people tell me. I can meet you at the black market tomorrow morning?

[harrythelizard]

That sounds like a great plan.

You know, because they decided to put the black market all out in the open.

[11calls]

Well, I think it wasn't so open when the whole thing started. But who knows really. Max may call it that because he thinks it's cool or something.

[harrythelizard]

You know what? If I had a market full of contraband, I'd call it that, too.

[11calls]

I mean definitely fair. I probably would too.

[harrythelizard]

I guess we can't knock a guy for trying to 'thug life' it, even if it makes him look like a total square.

[11calls]

I don’t know if he’s totally square but he’s definitely something else.

[harrythelizard]

Yeah. It's one of the reasons Iike the guy so much.

Here's hoping he's not a pod person.

[11calls]

Hopefully we find out soon. The longer it takes the less hopeful I am, you know? I mean like. We know what a stubborn asshole he is.

[harrythelizard]

I wonder if you'll submit to a test.

[11calls]

Of course. What do you need?

[harrythelizard]

Just a piece of hair. If I can confirm who's real it'll make for a good litmus test of who isn't.

[11calls]

Sure. Where do you want me?

[harrythelizard]

[If Harry was more of a flirt, there are several ways he could respond to this. Alas.]

Merchant's dome? I'll meet you in 30.