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Jamie is . . . getting twitchy.

Beyond that door somewhere is his Home. It's close. He knows it. But he needs Joris to get there, and Joris - and Helen - aren't ready to leave yet.

And Jamie isn't ready to tell them about his hopes of getting Home soon.

So there they are.

In an attempt to stave off twitchiness, Jamie's doing his best to fill his time with as many activities as possible. Today it's toasting marshmallows in the fireplace. It's fun to see the rats make faces as the goo drips!

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"Hundreds. No -" Jamie shakes his head. "More than that. More than anyone could count, I think."

There's a bit of a 'wow' factor to that.

"Really?" Pause. "That's..." Glance around. "I guess it's not that surprising, but still..."

"I know."

Jamie glances out the observation window - it seems to convey sort of the same idea.

"Not surprising really, but awfully queer to think about all the same."

"Before I came here, I'd never thought of there even being different worlds. Just the thought of so many..." Pause. "You know, there's one thing it does mean: The answer to 'what if' does exist."

And I've got to live with the answer to that which I found, too...

"I'd never thought of it either. Nobody on my world had," Jamie says, rather ruefully.

"Nobody on most worlds has, really. Everyone's so caught up in their own."

"True. Not to mention having no evidence of other worlds..." Shrug. "Heck, I can't even talk about Milliways back home. People would think I'd gone nuts."

Mental note to self: If ever arrested, start talking about Milliways. A lot.

"There's a good many things people just don't want to know."

And even more things that they might want to know, if there wasn't the Them factor involved - but Jamie knows better than to talk about that.

"True. Or that they couldn't quite wrap their minds around, even if they wanted to."

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