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It worked! I'm here again! I thought it'd all been a dream, but I knew somehow that I'd be able to reach out like that and touch this place...

[with a small, bemused grin on his face]

Say what you want about it, it's beautiful here. It's a lot different to see the stars without anything in the way.

I see you (or sense you?) other people out there. Has that Meredith lady made an appearance? She didn't answer my questions the last time!

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I didn't mean that! Look, you're not going crazy! I'm as real as you are.

Yeah, and so is Albus Dumbledore, apparently. [looks at him] Sorry, I just... forget it. So you're Akagi from No Man's Land, a desert planet, and I'm DI Sam Tyler from Manchester, England, Earth, 1973. Good to meet you.

That Manchester place is on Earth?! I had no idea...

So you know Earth?

Yeah, of course! My planet was colonized by people from Earth.

[links his hands behind his back] Really? How long ago was that? Is Earth still a... functioning planet?

The Fall itself happened a little over one-hundred fifty years ago. They left because Earth had grown too polluted to sustain so many. There are still people living there, but I couldn't tell you how many.

That's far easier to believe than I would like.

I'm sorry. I hope your Earth doesn't turn out that way.

You don't think you're from my Earth, from its future?

Is there any way to tell? I don't like thinking that what happened to the Earth I know will be unavoidable for yours.

I know. [unlocks his hands and claps them together before him] So, Akigo, tell me about the future! Is No Man's Land as bleak as it sounds?

I won't lie and say my planet doesn't have its share of problems. Things have been getting a lot better there recently, though. We even reestablished contact with Earth.

You lost contact? What happened?

Remember when I mentioned the Fall? They call it that because they never meant to colonize No Man's Land. There was a problem with the ships, and they all crashed on the planet. A lot of the wreckage couldn't be salvaged, so for a long time there just wasn't the technology to do that sort of thing.

But you all endured.

That's right. They salvaged, and built, and learned how to live there. I think you'd have a hard time finding tougher people.

I imagine so. It sounds like you really love it.

What can I say? It's home.

[smiles] Yeah. Hey, Akigo?

[still smiling himself] Hmm?

Why won't you tell me your real name?

...Ahahaha! Now what sort of a question is that? I did tell you my name!

But not your real one. I'm a copper, Akigo. I like to know when someone's hiding something from me, if only to stop the Guv from taking them into the Lost & Found and kickin' their face in to get the information. So I'm not going to ask you what it is, but I have to ask you why.

...

W-Would you look at the time? I really need to get going, and I think I left the oven on too, so uh, it was real nice talking to you, Sam!-

[poof!]

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