katrielle layton <3

flora flora flora!!! is everything alright now? are you out of corn hell or wherever you were?? god i'm so sorry i lost my phone. what have i missed :'D

oops sorry lol i misplaced my phone! finding it again was quite the puzzle :] now i hope all of you have stopped getting yourself into trouble while i was gone...

ah! flora!! it's been so long since i'm spoken to you last...

...which tesco did you go to? one here in london, i presume? lol, can you give me the address of the infinite tesco??

perhaps i can retrace your steps... somehow... (though i've never dimension-hopped before. that'd be a first)

...do you know what country you're in? admittedly, haha, it's rather hard to find you when i have so few clues...

if you cannot tell me where exactly you are, can you tell me how you got there so i could perhaps repeat your steps?

...um, alright! i still need to figure out how to get there...

dad! yes, yes i can "hear" you!

please, do you have any idea where you are, or how i can find you? how did you get there??

i see... i suppose that includes all the way the timeline can branch? alternate universes and such? that would explain a lot of things.

well golly i hope they're right!!!

well i sure hope they're not ghosts!! geez!!!

ah, well it sounds like him, i suppose. what happened to him??

lol help??? sorry i just find it really funny that you used a reaction to a puzzle to determine that it was my dad. honestly i don't blame you, that's sort of his schtick :P

but why do you call him "it"? is this him or not?

what! oh my god!! you get yourself into quite a bit of trouble, young man!!!

...are you okay, though? i hope it doesn't hurt too bad :(

anyway, that account name is pretty weird-sounding. how do you know it's another version of him?

oh, what's his face. ah, randall! i'm sure my dad has mentioned him to me before, since i recognize the name, but i forget who he is...

what is happening?? this feels like a dream...

(...it occurs to me that this conversation doesn't seem to be "online" to him. his post is narrated like a story. that makes it all the more unnerving, haha...)

i'm so sorry i didn't see this message before!! are you alright now???

hellooooo sorry for missing stuff!! ernest insisted i come along with him to some lecture yesterday... ugh...... but i'm back online now so everything's okay again <3

well, so, how does all of this time nonsense work? what are these "streams" that you and the little boy were talking about?

haha, oh, i'm quite used to waiting! don't worry about me :)

in any event, regardless of whether or not there's anything for me to DO, i'm always here if you need someone to talk to! being lonely never helps fixed anyone's problems... so if you need some company, you know who to call!!

...ah, well... dad disappeared 11 years ago.

i haven't seen him since, except maybe now over the telephone through this social media? i'm not sure. there are a few versions of him from different times. one seems to be... broken. i don't know.

i just want my dad back. can you help me find him?

...uh

wow. i suppose it's on me for wanting an explanation, but geez. um. uh (WHAT THE HELL??????)

...so you created these time anomalies? do you know how they work? where my dad fits into them all, perhaps?

oh, did you now? i'd appreciate if you said exactly WHAT you did instead of just rambling on vaguely.

but it isn't quite MY predicament, per se... it's my dad's.

i should hope that last question's rhetorical, cuz i wouldn't know in the slightest. it's a bit odd to have an underground apartment, no? why do you have it in the first place?

how can you not know??? if i woke up underground one morning i certainly wouldn't be so passive about it lol

...i am so sorry. is there any way i can help, any way i can fix this? even if you aren't my dad, not yet, i still care about you :)

yes, you have a future! i'm waiting in that future for you!! i'll do everything in my power to help you get here...

underground? why on earth are you underground?? i am so confused :'D

but you say you saw my world? my time??

haha, i am just as lost as i am lucky...

outside what? the telephone?? yes, i thought i already said that.

i'm here on chancer lane in london! and where, pray tell, are you??

of course i'm real! i'm the one outside the telephone. you all are the ones inside it.

it has been a while since i've last seen dad, sure, but he wasn't even that young then! i think there's something wrong on your end, mister!!

sure. whatever. i don't know anymore

haha, it occurs to me i missed something from your original reply. it was so glitchy, my eyes glossed right over it...

...i love you too. it's alright. i know you'd never abandon me on purpose.

what do you mean?? it's your social media account. you put it there. don't "oh cool" me...

i'm 21, thank you very much :)

hm... i've definitely heard of someone named claire... ah, if only dad had actually explained his past to me, haha...

but hey, what do you mean by "mistake"? what did you do??