Ah! Wow! It's me! I've been hovering around this thread but I haven't posted until now. Wonderful work, Galowon (and not just cause I'm in it-- though I do appreciate that-- I mean the story as a whole). Can't wait to see what's next!

~Starseeker 

Short posts for the win.

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Realm stood outside the Chatterboxer's secret... place, watching as the door in the hill closed and grass appeared atop the entrance once more. Just like that, a safe haven was gone. They wanted him to leave. Yes, they had been apologetic about it, but they still had wanted him to leave.

He began to walk away from the hill and from their little haven once more, pausing to close his eyes and remember what it was like inside. What it was like for a Chatterboxer. Cookies. They had 'cookies', which were delicious, and he wanted more. He wanted more of this world.

He continued walking away from the hill and trying to find a purpose, a place to go, when suddenly he froze just a few steps away from the forest. There had been something else inside there. A 'something' with bronze eyes. A glitch--there had been another glitch--someone familiar--

"Realm?"

Ooh, yay, more posts! So they kick him out so the glitches won't destroy them, but they also say th other glitches are afraid of him and he can save the world? Yes, me, that seems to be what's happening.

I am still confused about how they use their names. Wisdom is inherently wise, so he doesn't have to "activate" his power. Realm needed someone else to speak his name? Capture can just use it when he wants? What?

Do people do this a lot?

Literally nobody will be surprised by this, but, when you read who it is, at least act surprised? Like, gasp and flail about a bit maybe? Scream in surprise and shock? 

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Realm's first reaction was to reach for the weapon the CBer's had entrusted him with, a stick-like wand he was seventy-nine percent sure he couldn't use.

Then the Glitch stepped out of the forest's shade, and Realm's hand dropped, hanging limp at his side. 

The girl with no name smiled uneasily at him, trouble filling her eyes. Realm's first reaction was something almost--almost happy. The first thing that shot through his head was that she was there, and he could show her everything, everything about the Chatterbox, and she would love it. There would be so many new things for her to draw. 

And then he realized that she had no name, that she was powerless and she couldn't get here on her own and the other Glitches that were his type of Glitches must be here and--

"Realm, you have to come back." She said suddenly, while he was still lost in thought. He blinked, and didn't even say anything. He had to have heard her wrong. He must've heard her wrong.

"The portal--the portal, the way to get to the Chatterbox, it's broken, Capture broke it when he was going after you." She explained quickly, her voice hopeless and rushed. "And I can't take anyone else here, they don't think I can but you can, you're the portal, you can get things and get rid of things and they need you because it's broken, it's all broken and they need the Admins--"

Realm blinked. All he got from that was--"You can...how did you get here?" He asked slowly, his overall happiness at seeing her there fading away. She looked away. "Realm, my name is Dimension. They...they gave it to me. I'm like...like you now." She said quietly.

"Dimension." Realm said slowly, testing the word out, feeling it leaving his mouth. She nodded and smiled weakly. Realm looked away. "D-Dimension, I can't go back." Realm whispered, his mouth suddenly dry, his voice suddenly hoarse. She bit her lip. "But...I came." She tried slowly, as if reasoning with a child.

"And you can stay, right?" Realm asked. She shook her head quickly. "I can't stay for long. My power, it isn't that...good. I'll be pulled back eventually, and if I don't bring you back..." She dropped the sentence. Realm flinched, knowing what it implied. 

". . .I can't. They need me here, Dimensio--Dimen. Just--let me solve everything, and then..."

"Realm, you can't solve anything."

And then, before he could say another word, she was gone, disappearing him into the forest and leaving him more confused than ever.