Eighth heist [Phone]

[atailoftwoworlds]

Hey, guys.

Tell me about your homes. What's the place you call 'home'? Where you belong? What's it like? I'm kinda curious.

[Yep. Someone's feeling a little introspective. And homesick but he'll try not to let that on.]

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[Phone]

[quickly]

I'm from Boston, bro. Home of the best baseball team known t'man. It owns. I mean, I dunno what else t'say about it.

Why're ya askin'?

[Phone]

[atailoftwoworlds]

Baseball, huh? Is that the same as that game some of the drones play?

Uh...nothing. Just kinda curious, with us being from different worlds an' all.

[Phone]

[quickly]

Drones play baseball? Really? Huh. Y'know where?

Where are you from, then?

[Phone]

[atailoftwoworlds]

I sometimes see them in the park or around the school...?

Me? I'm from Gaia!

[logic_and_magic]

[Well this is a rather strange call. Too bad he's not going to be any good at making Zidane feel any better.]

Should we not be focused on trying to find a way out of this place?

[atailoftwoworlds]

[Nope. He's not]

What the heck gave you the idea that I wasn't?

[logic_and_magic]

Because you are asking pointless questions that have nothing to do with the situation we are all currently in.

[party_hard]

Oh, hi, Zidane! I'm from Equestria, and I live in Ponyville, and it's a REALLY great place, and we have lots of fun there, and I throw BIIIIIIG parties all the time, and someday I want to bring everypony in Mayfield there to have a party, too!

[atailoftwoworlds]

[Wow, she talks fast. But it's good to see that her enthusiasm hasn't wavered after all that's happened] Heh. I'd really like to see your world, Pinkie Pie.

[party_hard]

I'd really love to show it to you! And I could bring you to the bakery and we could bake a cake together and it would be AWESOME! And you could meet all my friends, too, not just Twilight! I'm friends with everypony in Ponyville!

[Phone]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

You're asking the wrong question. The right question is: Which is actually our home; here, or what we remember?

[Sherlock is fairly new here and is questioning a lot of things right now.]

[Phone]

[atailoftwoworlds]

Huh? I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at. [Well, he does have an idea but it sounds rather disturbing]

[Phone]

[highfunctioning_sociopath]

It's simple. One of them isn't real. Either Mayfield is real and our memories are wrong - or our memories are real and Mayfield is wrong.

[pumpkinpie]

Home's whe~reever my family are.

[atailoftwoworlds]

That's a nice sentiment. I guess that's the same with me, too. [Well, his home is with Garnet, whom he now regards as 'family', and wherever Garnet feels at home, his home is there, too]

[pumpkinpie]

Are your family here? [Everyone needs their family.]

Phone

[busy_fists]

There's not much of it left anymore, really.

Phone

[atailoftwoworlds]

Oh. Geez, I don't know what happened but I'm sorry.

[busy_fists]

It's all right. It's been quite an adventure, actually.

[encored]

It was all right. [how helpfully vague...! but Zidane isn't alone in feeling homesick; Charles just deals with it a little differently.]

Why the curiosity?

[atailoftwoworlds]

Oh, nothing much. I was just curious. [Which is part of it. But also because he wants to distract himself from his homesickness and frustration with his gf's droning by sparking up a philosophical topic with other people]

[encored]

[there's a quiet laugh from his end of the line. fair enough, stranger, fair enough.]

Have you received any answers that satisfy your curiosity? It's been a while since I've heard a question like this over the phones.

[technophiling]

Personally, I'm from earth. The European continent. My home's along the Baltic Sea.

[atailoftwoworlds]

Along the Baltic Sea, huh? What's it like, if you don't mind me asking.

[technophiling]

It's nice. There are lots of trees and the seasons vary wonderfully. We have the best fishing in the world, too, and the culture is... well, it's something. I'm a bit further north than some of my neighbours, so winters tend to be somewhat Nordic, but it's still great. I wouldn't change it for anything.