❝ 003 ❞ v i d e o ( forward dated to the 31st )

[animosus]

[Hal's recording this from Barry's place and he looks uncharacteristically hesitant.]

I think Barry's gone. My ring can't find him and I know it couldn't find people when everyone did that ghost trick a while back, but he also left his-- [He belatedly realises he can't say Flash ring.] --wedding ring behind and he'd never forget it.

[He falls silent again as he figures out what else to say.]

It's like I just got him back and now he's gone again. [He hasn't worked it out, but it feels like in all the years he's known him, Barry was dead longer than he was alive.]

I never really paid attention to what people did in this situation, but I guess I should tell Bart to get over here. Anything else I should do?

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[animosus]

[Multiple Flash rings or not, this one was uniquely Barry's and for that alone would mean everything to him.]

Maybe I... Back then before... gave it back to him. [Who knows everything he did back in those days.

He lowers his head, fists clenched. He's missed a lot of things and just when he thinks he's got everything another detail smacks him in the face.]

Anyway, I can send out something to scan for kedan approaching so we can get fair warning. [His ring then sends out green orbs to watch for them.

Fair warning. Hal didn't even get that last time. He got someone sending him a vision of Barry telling him he was dead.]

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[backinakidflash]

[Bart has no earthly idea what Hal is talking about, and, while part of him doesn't much care about random babble, it's obviously Barry-related. He can't help poking at it, to see if there's a cool story there.]

Back when what? Back when he died? No, that doesn't make sense. [He snaps his fingers, completely unaware of how harshly blunt that was.] Back when he came back? So like. Last month. That was last month, back home. I think. I've been stuck here so long it's getting kinda blurry.

[He suddenly stops yabbering and blinks a few times.]

Hey. Are you from the future? Tim would never say much about it.

[But Hal has a big mouth like Bart, so there's hope.]

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[animosus]

[He blinks. That is so far off from what he's talking about that he doesn't see where that came from.]

That's around the time with the Reverse-Flash, right? Yeah, I'm from a little past that. There was some stuff with the Black Lanterns, but that's it really.