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"If you want me gone, I'll go," not-Tim said to the assemblage of fourteen clustered around the end ofthe corridor. "I'm sorry if my presence disturbs you or-" A pause. "Tommy, take off that tinfoil hat. Youlook like an idiot.""But then you'd be able to read my thoughts," Tommy pointed out."I can't read your thoughts."Tommy smiled in triumph. "See, it works!"Matt yanked the tinfoil hat off Tommy's head, chucked it to the ground, and refolded his arms."How do we get out of here?" Nelson asked."I don't know. They'll let me teleport out, but not the rest of you. I think that's the only way out of here.""And where is 'here', exactly?" Conor asked.Not-Tim shrugged. "They say it's an isolated bubble of hyperspace in an empty section of themultiverse."Neo was still sitting on the floor. He was the only one on the floor. It made him feel special. ...Well, notreally. He thought about standing up, but realised that doing so would probably just draw attention tohimself. So he stayed on the floor even though it didn't really make him feel special."So we're trapped in this building, and in an isolated bubble of hyperspace," Eddie Talbot said. "Okay-"A desperate weak thump sounded from the broom cupboard.They turned."...How long has Hamlet been in there?" not-Tim asked.After a brief but frantic search, Paul Sutton finally located the key hiding craftily in the lock in a brilliantexample of cleverness that keys are not usually known to possess. The doors were pulled open toreveal Hamlet slumped in the bottom of the broom cupboard, looking half-dead from hunger anddehydration."Someone get him water!" Alex shouted as he helped Paul divest the broom cupboard of its largestliving inhabitant. The requested liquid soon arrived courtesy of Ted, who somehow always ended upbeing the one doing errands like these. He passed the cup to not-Tim who passed it to Alex who beganthe arduous task of rehydrating the Prince of Denmark.Not-Tim pointed towards the locked door. "Do those guys have food and water?""Who cares?" Johnny muttered, crushing Tommy's fallen tinfoil hat just for the heck of it. "They killedpeople.""I care. I'm kind of responsible for their existence here, and it would be really nice if everyone stayedalive-""Yeah, they do," Alex supplied, handing the now-empty cup to Ted. "Should last them several days. Oi,Ted. Refill."Unnoticed by most of them, the stairwell door at the other corridor end opened and a newcomer in hisearly twenties walked cautiously out.Kip looked uncertainly at the small crowd at the other end. Recognition hit, multiple times. His breathcaught. He fell over in a faint.Neo looked dispassionately at the fallen Kip and decided that someone else could deal with him. Hedidn't intend to be getting off the floor any time soon. Sitting there didn't make him feel special, but itwas a lot more fun than standing up.**
Splash.The sudden rush of cold shocked him into consciousness. Opening his eyes, Kip wiped the water off hisface and wondered what he was doing on a sofa."Brilliant, Falco. Now the carpet's all wet and we'll have a mould colony there soon.""How else would you have done it?""You could have got a bucket.""Do you see any bucket? ...Hi. Welcome to Kenselton Hotel."Kip looked dazedly at them, then at the hand that Conor waved in front of his face to check for signs oflife."...What happened?" he finally asked."Well, it all started with this thing called the Big Bang-""You fainted," Conor said, interrupting Shane's impromptu science lesson."Where am I?""An isolated bubble of hyperspace."Kip thought this over. "Oh," he said."You're taking this very calmly," Conor observed, attempting to dry the carpet by rubbing his foot overthe wet spot. "See Kevin over there? He didn't take it calmly."Kip gazed in the general direction of Kevin. His view was shortly obstructed by Conor waving a hand infront of his face again. He looked back at him."You don’t talk much, do you?"Kip shrugged. "I do when I have things to say.""Uh-huh. What's your name?""Kip.""I'm Conor, that's Shane; over there's Kevin, Ted, Jjaks, Neo, Alex; and that's-" Conor gestured vaguelyat not-Tim – "that's... you don't want to know. Trust me. ...Nelson, Tommy, Ron, Paul, Johnny, Eddie,Matt, uh, Hamlet, and that's the cornflakes guy."Kip nodded. He decided that he liked this isolated bubble of hyperspace.For the first time, he felt that he actually belonged.**On the top floor of Block F of Kenselton Hotel, a crude stack of boxes rose up to the ceiling, in which adark rough square had been cut. The fallen plaster and concrete lay crumbled on the carpet. Faintpowdery shoeprints marked the steps formed by the boxes.Through the hole, on the roof, John Constantine stood and watched the void. He'd wanted to see it forhimself. The darkness spread out forever; only a strange unknown light cast a glow on him and thedirty-white roof of the building. Elsewhere he saw the brief patches that were the roofs of the otherblocks in Kenselton Hotel, islands of existence in this isolated bubble of hyperspace, the only place thatwas-John squinted at a particular spot in the blackness.He thought he could make out the outline of a door.**
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"Your behaviour these past few mont
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"I can't bring them back to life,"
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Nelson smirked and walked on to the
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"Yes sir," Ludlow hissed into his e
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Alex got slowly to his feet. He dim
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The face that looked up at him held
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First Combined MeetingThomas Ludlow
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- Reeves clears throat.- Utah shuts
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Griffin isn't the only one in the r
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He realised that he was not standin
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Ludlow smirked. "Thank you. Now I k
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Seventeen suspicious-looking, mostl
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Scott emerged from the alley he had
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Stuck in House: Chris Townsend, Mat
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Loose in Kenselton Holding Facility
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"Arctor, Robert," Dem said. "Get on
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