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I have a question about OL. Even though Eliot chose to stay in the Otherlands, he can still travel back and forth right? I'm asking bc he implied he couldn't go back to the "normal" world and that's why he had to stock up on pens and other modern stuff.

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Elliot can still travel back and forth, yes. He can make a run for pens! But one of my friends lives in another county but is Irish, and when she comes back or I visit her, she wants me to bring Barry’s teabags because they’re the best kind. (I agree with her on this.) She can come back, but not without difficulty and she’s made a decision to set her life elsewhere. Little in this life is permanent but as far as things can be, it’s a permanent move for her, and this is a permanent move for Elliot. The place he crosses over is walkable, but it won’t be on a sea voyage to see mermaids, or many of the places he ends up getting posted. His original world won’t be very accessible to him, in a variety of ways.

During the book, Elliot realises getting his education in a magical land would make returning to his own world on a permanent basis difficult. He’s not going to have a record of going to school after the age of 13, or a college degree, and he would need them to live the kind of life he wants and have the kind of job he’d find interesting. He’s aware the longer he stays the more difficult returning would be - implied though not stated in the text: his mother could not stay in that world, when she wanted to leave the man supporting her. She’s explicitly got healer skills. She doesn’t have a medical degree.

Also during the book, Luke has a freak attack about Elliot staying longer than scheduled in the other world. Luke cannot go there (‘don’t go where I can’t follow’ a feeling many of us have had about our loved ones). It’s on Elliot’s mind afterward that Luke worries about him when he’s away and that is both touching and a new experience for Elliot. He’s not going to have a good time in Cancun if he thinks Luke is frantic with worry that Elliot will be murdered by an airplane or a phone. So he will do his best not to go.

cobra: I knoooow and that power imbalance is why it's now soooo unethical and entirely off the table for us to fuck 😔

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