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"So, how do I get back home then?"

"Back home?" Geldorn asked. His face rotated to show a face wearing a look of confusion. It flickered for a moment, then stared towards Jerry. Jerry shrugged his shoulders and wandered off. Geldorn looked down at me. "What do you mean 'get back home'?"

"What I meant was how do I leave this place back to my normal reality?"

"Well, you don't. You are here, after all, and despite the fact that you came here through...well, unconventional means, nobody leaves, as this is the final stop for your kind. Therefore, we'll just lead you to the training facilities, and you can get started right away," he stated somewhat cheerfully, reaching for my shoulder to lead me towards the facilities.

I jerked away from him and stared at him, feeling a bit cheated. "No. I want to go home. I've come all this way, and I intend on going home!" I exclaimed, turning back towards the corridor we had travelled through, determined to find the exit. However, as I started through the corridor, it curved slightly and a wall appeared.

"I'm afraid you can't get out that way," stated Geldorn as he stood next to an object that looked like a round stone, with a number of lights embedded in it. "Like I said, you may stay here, or you may go elsewhere, and since you managed to escape Limbo, that only leaves you one other location."

"No. I refuse to leave until you show me a way to get home," I said, defiantly, standing still and staring Geldorn down. Suddenly, a loud noise emitted from what seemed like every wall and ceiling, sounding as though it were an attempt by a herd of blind echidnas to replicate a piece of orchestral music using a cheese grater and a caulking gun. It varied in pitch in rhythm, sometimes several variations in the course of a second, and finally faded away, leaving an echo that persisted for another few minutes.

Finally, Geldorn turned to me, his neck swiveling in such a way that both pieces were pointed towards his front, stretching several feet, with his face right in front of mine. His head rotated before settling on an infuriated expression, then quickly to a polite smile. "Very well. I have been informed by my supervisors that you are to be allowed to return. Thus, we shall head to the left," he said, swiveling his neck in the direction of the exit as he gestured towards it.

I looked past him, seeing a door that had formed in the wall, with a sign that had an arrow pointing down. Puzzled, I followed towards it and it opened to feature a small room which had a door, and nothing else. "Enter the elevator, and it will take you downstairs, where you may arrange to go home." With that, Geldorn turned and left, his neck was still swiveled in my direction and one of his faces, coincidentally a sad one, was facing my direction, though its eyes were closed.

I entered the elevator and noticed it looked remarkably similar to the elevator from earlier. I pressed the familiar button then looked at the interior, seeing all the material that I had peeled off of it still laying on the floor, and walls seemed to be even dingier than before, if that were possible. My journey on the elevator lasted all of 30 seconds, then a distinctive ding sounded, followed by more dings, then a loud beep. The door opened, and I stepped into a rather boring looking room.

As I turned around, I saw the door close, then turn horizontally in the wall. I was somewhat surprised to see it capable of doing this, then I watched it recede into nothingness and turned to look at my surroundings and noticed that it was a rather plain room, lit sparingly from above and seemed to made of concrete and nothing else. A tired looking man in a suit sat at a computer terminal. Without looking at me, he pointed to a circle on the floor in the corner.

"Step over there, and don't make a noise," he said, complete absorbed in what he was doing. I stepped into it, and nothing happened. I looked at him, but he was still typing furiously. After a minute, he pressed a series of buttons on his screen and turned in his chair so that his back was facing me.