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Siffrin knew he shouldn't make another wish. Especially not one that involved Loop. But he . . . he'd woken from a nightmare, and while his family was there to help, they didn't get it like Loop would have, and he just . . . He missed them. They were the only thing that kept him going in the loops, the only person he could talk to about them, the only reason he got out of them in the first place. And they were just . . . gone? Sure, they'd promised to come back someday, but . . .

Neither of them actually knew what was going to happen to them when they started fading. Loop was probably just trying to reassure him, even when they didn't know what was going to happen. For all he knew, they were dead.

They couldn't accept that. They wanted to see them again. They wanted reassurance that they would see them again. So, against their better judgement . . . they made a wish. A wish to see Loop again. At least once.

And now he was here. Not that he really knew where "here" was. He wasn't exactly expecting to open a door straight into a forest when it should've been just another room, but with the faint smell of sugar that came with it . . .

They took a breath, and stepped through.

Was Loop back with their own family, and this was a way between . . . universes? Timelines? Or was this somewhere else in their world, that Loop happened to travel to? Or was it completely unrelated, and existed due to someone else's wish?

He made sure to crunch through the leaves as he walked through the forest, not wanting to startle them if they were here. And he looked around for any sign of his other self.

Instead he found . . . someone else. ". . . Hello?"

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Loop didn't really know what to expect upon the breaking of the loops, what was going to happen to them, where they were going to go, but this . . . wasn't it.

They sat up from where they'd awoken on the floor and looked around. Well, they were inside, that was one thing. They were used to waking up either outside or in the warped House of Change, so this was . . . different. Very different.

They also seemed to be in . . . a . . . house? Not a House of a Change, but a normal, average, everyday house that anyone might live in.

They stood up. Where were they?

Well. Some kind of storage room, that at least was obvious, with all the boxes and things stacked up. Oh, there was a window. They looked outside.

. . . Nothing about outside was recognizable.

They leaned forward, up against the glass, examining everything they could see. The most eye-catching thing was the strange roads cutting through the grass. That didn't look like cobblestone or dirt. It looked like . . . long, uninterrupted expanses of rock. Strange.

The houses were also strange. Built differently. This definitely wasn't Vaugarde, nor could they recognize it from any other country they'd traveled to before then. Then again, they'd long since forgotten what all they did before the loops, so either their memory was even worse than they realized and none of this even pinged as recognizable anymore, or this was a country they'd never even been to yet in the first place.

Hm. Well. They should probably get out of this house before someone saw them. They turned around.

". . . Ah."

Too late.

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"Vee! Vee! Vee! Vee! Did you see the news?"

This was so exciting! Space history in the making!!!

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How long had it been that they'd been here? Months? Years? There was no telling from the cage Loop was confined in, surrounded by walls of stone and lit only by a few orbs of light and their own glow. There was no sunrise, sunset, no night or day, no stars. No way to tell how much time had passed.

They did know one thing, though. It had been a long time since that tall cloaked figure came to interrogate them. Both a blessing and a curse, they supposed. They didn't like him, and it wasn't uncommon for them to get hurt by him, but at least it was something different.

But now even he was gone, as with any others that had checked in on them before, and though they'd tried to escape, as they had on many occasions previously, it seems the magic barrier holding them in was still as strong as ever. They were well and truly stuck.

They hesitated to compare anything to the loops, but at least the loops had a script. This was just . . . nothing.

Nothing nothing nothing for months on end except for perhaps a stray rat(?) skittering about but otherwise just nothing and-

Wait.

Was that a noise? Coming from outside the room?

Ah! So they were hallucinating again! Haha! That was fine. That was okay. That was entertainment! That was something new! Anything was better than nothing!

This was a rather tame one, though. No sinister voices or melting objects. Just the sound of something . . . moving, they thought?

They breathed in, and out, and waited for it to pass.