[An Anonymous Text]

[kingofthetoybox]

so here we are all herded together

beyond the "end"

but it's not so bad

is it?

we're alive

and that's all that counts

welcome to your new lives

won't you

be my friend?

Comments

[Video]

[kingofthetoybox]

[The grin's charming in its own way.]

so are you saying

you don't want to make any friends

while you're here?

but you may be here

for a long

long

time

[Video]

[ceasetoexist]

Yeah no crap idiot. We're all stuck in this hole, and will be, for a while. Why, you got a plan to leave already because hey! I'd love to hear it! I'm sure it's genius!

[Video]

[kingofthetoybox]

hm

i wonder if i do want to go back

or if there's even a back to go to

[Video]

[ceasetoexist]

Who knows for sure.

Me, I'm not believing anything they say or show us yet. People who kidnap you aren't known for telling you the truth. It's kind of counterproductive, unless they're sure they can get away with what they want.

If there isn't....

[If there isn't what was the purpose of anything? No. That wasn't right. But if there isn't then why was he here? What was the point? Of all the people more powerful then him, better than him, and who deserved to live more than him in Mayfield, why was he chosen to survive? It makes no sense to him.

But he just shrugs. Just shrugs it off like it doesn't mean anything, like he always does. It's so much easier than saying what's on his mind.]

If there isn't, who cares. Guess we'll move on here. Nothing we can do.

[Video]

[kingofthetoybox]

that's right

we'll just move on

what could would it do to

break down

and

c

r

y

none of that

until the end

[Video]

[ceasetoexist]

[There is something. Oddly familiar about this. Like there's something at the back of Pokey's mind that is just sounding an alarm. Some kind of warning flag that he's seen this before, but he doesn't know where. Well. He does. It's just that it wasn't something he had seen so much as a way he had thought.

For a moment Pokey just stares at the screen, blank faced. Before smiling. A fake smile, to be sure. But then.

Fake smiles were something Pokey excelled at.]

You know what? You're right. Let's be friends.

I'm Pokey Minch. Who're you?

Re: [Video]

[kingofthetoybox]

hi p o k e y

a pleasure

t o meet u

pokey

my na me

i s

p

o

k

e

y

im h a p p y

w e

r

f r i e n d s

it feels

g o

o d

he he he he h e

[With that, Pokey may notice that the person on the other end has suddenly gone offline.]

[Video]

[ceasetoexist]

[Pokey just sits there, looking at the screen. He doesn't know how long he stays there, and not just once but a few times he wonders why he continues to sit there. In part he's hoping to see the words say something else, that he might be imagining what he's seeing at the moment. But he knows that's wishful thinking on his part at the very best.

So he just sits there. Reading the words over and over and over again before finally getting up to leave. And casting one last glance at the machine.]

Too bad I lied.

[And he's gone. To where, he doesn't know. But anywhere other than this room if just for the moment.]