It’s true. I did disappear for six years.

But it’s not quite what you think.

You may recall there was some drama back in the spring of 2002 when I went “missing” and my friend Jenn posted the story of my disappearance to my old journal. Unfortunately, because I’ve lost some of those pages, I can only remember bits and pieces of what she said. But based on what I do recall I’ll reconstruct the scene and explain why I am in fact not gone, as is probably obvious from the fact that you’re reading this!

I met Steve Rimbauer for dinner one evening, which is not an unusual occurrence. I’ve seen Steve quite regularly in the years since the Rose Red expedition. I’ll catch you up on that in another post another time. But suffice to say Steve and I having a night out was becoming par for the course, after the initial awkward period when I moved into the condo. What wasn’t par was the massive argument we had about my continued residence in the TechStar complex and my tireless search for Nick…

Steve is understandably terrified of Rose Red, more than he even was as a child, and refuses to come near the property. Even to this day he hasn’t visited me here, and that was what sparked the confrontation between us that night. You may remember I was experiencing some really odd phenomena, particularly with my computer, that I felt related to Joyce…or Joyce’s spirit. As time passed and I got more and more caught up in trying to find what little may have been left of Rose Red and bring it back to life, I grew more desperate. I guess you could say I was a little like Joyce by the time I had dinner with Steve that night.

And I would have stopped at nothing to achieve my goal. Ultimately to find Nick, but at the time I felt the only way to do that was to bring through anyone and anything I could, to rouse the very essence of Rose Red. I knew, and still know in my heart of hearts, that Nick is here to help the spirits Rose Red claimed. And believe me. Just because the house is gone doesn’t mean Rose Red is gone.
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