Come on, Charlie, even you can unstick your brain from contemplating the sheer impossibility of what you just witnessed for a few seconds here. You'll have plenty of time to think about it later.
(And think about it later he will. At great length.)
It still takes an enormous effort to wrench his thoughts back around to the newest matter at hand, and it's clear in his tone when he finally manages to say, "Is she your teacher?"
Of course, none of this stops a new train of thought from forming and skittering off in its own direction: If I don't know where I am then Don and Dad almost certainly don't know where I am, there were over thirty-seven thousand people reported missing in California in 2004 alone, only a small percentage of missing persons cases are ever solved, Don and Dad might think I'm dead --
He tries to stamp down on it, without much success.
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Come on, Charlie, even you can unstick your brain from contemplating the sheer impossibility of what you just witnessed for a few seconds here. You'll have plenty of time to think about it later.
(And think about it later he will. At great length.)
It still takes an enormous effort to wrench his thoughts back around to the newest matter at hand, and it's clear in his tone when he finally manages to say, "Is she your teacher?"
Of course, none of this stops a new train of thought from forming and skittering off in its own direction: If I don't know where I am then Don and Dad almost certainly don't know where I am, there were over thirty-seven thousand people reported missing in California in 2004 alone, only a small percentage of missing persons cases are ever solved, Don and Dad might think I'm dead --
He tries to stamp down on it, without much success.