[IC Contact -- Snowblind]

[bookofnope]

[There is a click noise. It sounds as though it might be judging you.]

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[bookofnope]

[However awkward this exchange is otherwise, Beckett can't deny his curiosity. This isn't the response he'd expected.] So there is still something there? You'll have to elaborate. Do you only feel those of us who are here, or the whole however many millions back home?

[Even as he asks his voice loses the careful neutral tone and eagerness starts rising in it. Congratulations, England, you got him hooked. Leading him by the nose with interesting information is laughably easy.]

[keepscalm]

[Despite himself, England can't help but be a little excited at Beckett's obvious interest. Though he often goes without the approval of his citizens, it's very nice to have. Especially when his citizens here currently seem to number about three.]

Just the people back home. I imagine because I'm not receiving status updates, as it were, my awareness hasn't expanded to those of you in the town. And I can't expect that I would already be connected to anyone who comes in because we all seem to come from different times and places.

[He would expect there to be some discrepancy in this very odd situation.]

[bookofnope]

[Expanding awareness, he says. Curiouser and curiouser. Why hasn't he investigated this before? It's getting unnerving. Where on earth was his mind before his death?]

I don't suppose it would be possible for you to describe the experience of the connection - not in terms I would understand. [He still sounds a little hopeful. Who knows?]

If you were a spirit, I'd say it makes perfect sense that you are not "connected" to me, my kind being spiritually dumb. As is... perhaps humans in your world have some capacity that enables the connection, which those from other worlds lack.