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[logical_lioness]

[Hermione was surprised there was a laboratory in this small town. Usually they were based in major cities where they could access the resources and funding required to operate. She wondered what it specialized in? She also assumed that the woman on the other end of the network was joking about breaking in. At least, she sincerely hoped so.]

It's nice to meet you, thank you for responding so quickly! Actually, there's quite a lot I'd like to do some research on, including this Solosis. I don't suppose there's some kind of public transport I could take to get to the library quicker, like a bus or train?

[She hadn't seen any signs for public transport anywhere, but that didn't necessarily mean there wasn't any.]

[She frowned, biting her lip.]

Given your response, I take it that there have been a few...instances of people arriving unexpectedly?

[takemebythehearts]

Unfortunately not, at least none that will be available to a newcomer yet. One of the first things you're likely to notice about this world is that it can be quite selectively backwards.

[Advanced communication and teleportation, but no weapons or paved roads between cities.]

On a regular schedule, even. There are under a hundred people from other worlds here, at a rough count, but that number fluctuates weekly.

[logical_lioness]

[Hermione's face fell a little. That's a long hike, especially on her own in a totally foreign environment. She glanced at the Solosis. Well, perhaps not entirely on her own. She was desperate to find a way to get back home though - she was sick with worry for Harry and Sirius. Did the Dementors get them? Or were they here too?]

But...I mean, there seems to be some sophisticated technology here wherever here is. It's surprising that there aren't better services for travel.

[She sighs. Well, nothing to be done about that right now. Priorities, Hermione, priorities.]

You seem to know a bit about this place Ms...er...? [Hermione suddenly feels rude for not asking this lady's name earlier.]

Are you a native or did a similar thing happen to you?

If this has been happening for a while, surely there must be some kind of explanation or investigation into this. I mean, people just don't appear in a completely different world for no reason.

[Even being a witch, that's a sentence Hermione never expected to be saying.]

[takemebythehearts]

I think you'll find this world makes a great deal more sense if you consider it less as a place which arose organically than as a constructed setpiece of some kind.

[There's even background music.]

Just Missy is fine, Miss Granger. I appeared here one day under highly similar circumstances.

And you're completely correct, there is almost always a reason when people are kidnapped across space and time. Unfortunately the actual 'why' of our situation is still a mystery, despite efforts to the contrary.

[logical_lioness]

Pleasure to meet you Missy. Are you British by any chance? [The accent seems to be British...

[A pause, and Hermione looks around her briefly before turning back to the camera.]

Are you saying that this is an artificial reality? None of this is real?

[Hermione just assumed someone was playing music EXTREMELY loudly. Everything looked and felt so real. Was this some kind of elaborate spell she hadn't heard of?]

[takemebythehearts]

Artificially created, at least. Like some kind of planetwide themepark.

[Does that make them tourists or part of the attractions?]

An entirely virtual world would certainly explain some of the eccentricities of this place, but I can't confirm that with any certainty.

And not originally, but I've certainly spent a great deal of time in Britain.

[logical_lioness]

[Well. That's something Hermione hadn't even considered. She mentally berated herself. The wizarding community was far to removed from the electronic revolution sweeping the globe - something she vowed she would start trying to rectify when she got back and after Voldemort was defeated.]

So, theoretically that means that it's likely only my subconscious here, rather than my body.

That seems pretty...elaborate. I mean, what's the purpose? Is it some kind of social experiment? Because if it is just you wait until the authorities find the person responsible for this mess. You need to sign permission forms and go through all sorts of psychological testing before you get put into something even remotely like this, and I certainly did no such thing.

Well, in any case, if it's a virtual world, then that means that there's a back door. Where there's a way in there must be a way out. We just have to find it.

[Oh yeah, it's Library Time!]

[takemebythehearts]

To foster some kind of competition, perhaps. To groom individuals from different worlds in the training of these creatures. Or to test the reactions against an environment as tilted towards combat as this one. Assuming this place is still serving its intended function at all.

[Or it really is just an elaborate freak accident of rifts in time and space, but Missy's not one to believe in accidents.]

Virtual or real, there's always an exit, for those capable of finding it and willing to use it. The apparently random nature of arrivals and departures just makes it rather more difficult than it might be.