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[yousayyes]

[As Winston's second day at sea starts, he feels the distinct creeping anxiety of his mind preoccupying itself with worry over what could be happening back home in his absence.]

[Normally, he'd try reading to pass the time and keep his mind busy from those thoughts- but Mom only packed him two books, and he's already read through both of them cover-to-cover multiple times by now. ...he started to realize somewhere in the middle of his fifth re-read of the trainer's guide that he wasn't actually working to absorb the information. By that point, he was just glancing down at the turning pages to feel some amount of productivity as he's stuck waiting for the cruise ship to reach Kanto.]

[Setting the books back in his bag, Winston opens his Pokégear, thumbing through its features until he reaches a text posting option. ...it can't hurt to put something out there, right?]

Hi.

Current events outside of my control have left me temporarily unemployed, seeing as I'm now stuck in a different dimension from my former workplace.

I know- we've ALL been there before... /endsarcasm

While I'm sure my coworkers will be understanding of the situation and leave my spot open until I return... I don't see that reunion happening anytime soon. So in the meantime: if anyone could point me towards a job listing in the Kanto area, I would appreciate it a lot.

Many thanks.

- Winston Zeddemore

Comments

[yousayyes]

...and the takeaway from this story is "time flies when you're having fun".

All joking aside, that DOES raise the question of how aging works in this dimension... I'd like to hope it's a straightforward Neverland situation where we aren't getting any older staying here, and there won't be a "going back home turns you into a wrinkly husk" end in store for us.

[You opened this can of worms Egon now you're going to lie in it.]

[pkemeter]

Unsure. I have polled several people who have traveled from their home dimension to this one. It seems that aging is inconsistent--children and teenagers, for some reason, seem to age normally, day by day, year by year, so on and so forth. However, for adults, aging seems to occur either at a slower pace to the point where it seems nonexistent or occurs normally, as seen in children. When people disappear and then return to this world with all their memories intact, they seem to have not aged at all.

So far, any tests I have performed have been inconclusive.