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[ For all that Emma tries not to brood, she missed space Christmas and news of Pan's curse has her feeling particularly sentimental. Reflective, even. And the prospect of losing her memories, losing her loved ones, only serves to remind her that sooner or later, they're all trying, in some capacity, to lose the people they've grown to care about aboard the Tranquility. ]

A friend of mine pointed out a while back that not everyone has a home to go back to at this point. Or one worse than what's here, whether that means they're dead or just some other kind of screwed.

[ Strangely, with Dean back now, she has to wonder if he'd say the same again. That staying on the ship, even as it is now, is better than the alternative for some. Getting a read on him is tougher now. It feels like she's missing pieces. ]

What about you? What's your best case scenario for whenever we figure out what the hell's going on here? Do you go home, forget all about it? Backtrack to Arima and set up shop?

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Would you?

[ It strikes her because, even after all this, she is. She isolates herself, pushes Hook away, pushes her mother away. Even now that she has her family back, has people she loves in her life, she still doesn't know how to let go of being that person who's so cut off. ]

It's my kid. I don't want him left alone like I was.

[ Happy families don't turn out Emma's kind of emotional defenses, in his experience.

A kid, though. That fits. There's a reason, after all, that the Red Room sterilizes its agents — pregnancy is a disease, he'd remembered, when he'd thought for a moment Becca might have been — but she wasn't. No widow had children. They're a weakness. A vulnerability. Leverage. (He could ask more about Emma's son and he doesn't.) ]

then we'll have to find a way back

if we can manage both though, i wouldn't complain

People get pulled aboard at the jumps. We'd need to take control of them to get people back to their own worlds, and the same could just as easily steer us back to Arima. Two goals, one solution. It just keeps coming back to whatever's driving the jump.

if the jumps can be controlled at all

not saying it's altogether accidental, but just because something or someone's bringing us here doesn't mean anybody's choosing who or where from — or where to

If anyone can figure out how to do it, it's someone aboard this ship. We've got geniuses and wizards and superheroes and pirates. If there's any hope at all, we'll find a way.

well shit don't let the superheroes at it

[ Srsly have u met any superheroes. ]

my money's on the geniuses
but no luck so far
sometimes feels like we've got a lot of pieces nobody's putting together

Don't look at me. I could never solve a puzzle without looking at the picture on the box.

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