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Now that getting settled into Jessi's store was finished, Anny and Anthony took their time to explore the rest of the town, watching on as horses trotted their rounds, the blacksmith hammered away, and the time-backwards town went about it's day. Anthony hadn't seen Chris in a few days now, and he'd begun to worry. It wasn't like he really knew the guy, but the older man was the only 'real world' person he'd known, and then he ran off to the witch. Jessi had asked a few probing questions, and Anthony was running out of excuses.

Seeing a shop with many strange objects inside, Anny dragged Anthony into the store. Considering how bright the day was, the darkness of the indoors took a moment to get used to.

Anthony's eyes adjusted to see the man behind the counter after a moment. In an effort to be funny, Anthony told the absolute truth. "A pay phone, but I have a feeling that's not gonna happen, eh?" Anny smirked beside him. With his dealings with Jessi, the man would probably give an odd look and leave it at that. On the other hand, the shop did seem to have some interesting items.

"M'kay, sure. Everything looks pretty neat." Anthony wandered around the room, Anny following behind him. To tell the truth, just about every object in the room did look interesting, but not in the way that Anthony liked. He had hoped for more snazzy things, fun things to use, even toys or some sort. There seemed to be more practical than exciting things, though. There was one strange wood and metal thingamajigger that looked like a cross between a juicer and a pepper grinder, and he could see a quilt rack in the corner. It seemed more like a boring garage sale.

"Nope, not really. As in, I don't exactly rem'ber coming here, I just kind of was minding my own business and suddenly I was blackin' out and I wake up in the forest. Funny, huh?" Anthony kept telling himself it was funny, and it was a great adventure. It helped with missing home.

"Uhh, no... wait! Was she the one with the camo pants? Then yeah, I think so. White shirt, brown hair?" At least, he thought she had brown hair. It had been rather dark and he was already tired at that point. Could this guy have actually known her? Maybe she could tell them what was going on!

Anthony was getting used to covering terminology-thingies now. "Oh, uh, Camo clothes are the ones with all the green and brown splotches so you can hide better."

He was glad to hear of more strangers, for a change. At home, a lot of strangers could mean a lot of people who could be trouble, but here it probably meant normal folks. "Neato! Hopefully one of them knows the way home, huh?" The chances were good, anyway. Anny gave him a quiet smile. "I wonder if it's one of those search party things, yknow?"

Anthony considered the offer it was tempting, but why would he want to take Anthony out to the forest? It seemed dangerous or something, although the Alex guy was out there, somewhere. "Well, y'see, I had found somebody while in the forest, Chris. Army guy or somethin'. And he hasn't come back from a trip to talk to somebody. Someone at the inn said that they'd have the answers. It's been, like, five or six days." Maybe this guy knew something, if he knew about people in the forest.

Anthony briefly looked away when Alex's name was mentioned. He was supposed to be a secret. "We - Chris and I- stayed at the inn the first night." Anthony wasn't sure how much was just too much information to tell the guy. Chris had been all secretive, but all of the townsfolk all seemed to friendly! "I suppose we could go back and look in the restauant part of it, anyway."

Luckily for Jonas, Anthony had no idea what he was looking for.