[Okay. Wait. That actually does get his attention. He knew Crimson had been sighted, that was part of the reason he'd been fucking around in the Dream Sphere for the past couple weeks. 'Back' implies...]
As in 'out'?
[For the first time he is looking directly at her and giving her his undivided attention. He was never particularly close with Crimson on account of he's never been particularly close with anyone, but for a time they were contemporaries. He's at least familiar with some of her research. People being lost isn't new, but people coming back after such extended disappearances... it's never been proven impossible but it's also never happened. It's not something you can test, it would be unethical to purposefully lose people in the Dream Sphere and see if they could get back out again. He knows, he suggested it and the IRB of the DU research branch shot it down immediately.
He'd been working under the assumption that after a set amount of time a person passed a kind of point of no return. Apparently that set amount of time is a lot longer than he'd guessed? On a more unsettling and personal note, this has implications regarding Bill Cipher than he doesn't much like to think about. The point is he is very actively invested in this particular thing, past the point of simple detached scientific curiosity.]
no subject
As in 'out'?
[For the first time he is looking directly at her and giving her his undivided attention. He was never particularly close with Crimson on account of he's never been particularly close with anyone, but for a time they were contemporaries. He's at least familiar with some of her research. People being lost isn't new, but people coming back after such extended disappearances... it's never been proven impossible but it's also never happened. It's not something you can test, it would be unethical to purposefully lose people in the Dream Sphere and see if they could get back out again. He knows, he suggested it and the IRB of the DU research branch shot it down immediately.
He'd been working under the assumption that after a set amount of time a person passed a kind of point of no return. Apparently that set amount of time is a lot longer than he'd guessed? On a more unsettling and personal note, this has implications regarding Bill Cipher than he doesn't much like to think about. The point is he is very actively invested in this particular thing, past the point of simple detached scientific curiosity.]
Awake?