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[The feed begins. Satoru carefully centers himself in the frame before sitting back. He's outside in the grass next to the lake, with the device propped up against a tree.]

I think I have the gist of things. [He read the pamphlet, which was pretty helpful as a crash course.] But there are still some things I'm confused about.

[His frustration is apparent in a brief pause that follows that admission, however.]

Asking questions won't change the situation, but...can someone explain the part about time not moving?

[Because that is relevant to his interests.]

[Kayo seems a little more unsure. She’s standing just behind Satoru and trying not to draw much attention to herself. Making any kind of announcement to a wide group of people is uncomfortable, and it’s easier to just let him take the lead, if he wants to.]

...Isn’t that impossible?

[She’s quiet, but also not very impressed by the supposed magicalness of the world around them. Life isn’t a storybook and people don’t get whisked away to worlds where time doesn’t exist. It sounds kind of stupid to believe something like that just because someone put it in a professional-looking pamphlet.]

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Aside from the fact that you've been pulled into an entirely different dimension that somehow exists outside the flow of time?

[After all, that would be a suitable example for many.]

Are you often able to wish up whatever you want from your closets back where you're from?

[Okay there's no reason to be sarcastic about it.]

Okay there's no reason to be sarcastic about it. I get it.

[...Well. Good to know his habit of saying what he's thinking like he has no filter at all applies to text as well.]

I wasn't attempting to be, actually.

[Well now he feels dumb. Text makes reading people difficult.]

Okay. Sorry.

[He ought to say that, since this guy is really trying to help.]

So...magical closets? I think the pamphlet mentioned those. We can really get whatever we want from them?

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No need. This isn't exactly the most easily intuited form of communication.

[Not to mention the fact that they're dealing with an utterly ridiculous premise.]

Not what "whatever", but certainly a great deal. More complicated pieces of technology and items of high importance from your home won't be so easily obtained, but in a general sense, you won't go wanting. Unless the closets stop working, which can happen when an event comes into play.

I read about events. What can you tell me about those?

[As Kayo would say, everything about this place is stupid.]

That what you read is true. Periodically this world is somehow altered in some form to reflect the memories of one of the captives held within it. Sometimes that means we are also altered as well.

[It's likely not the most pleasant thing for a child to hear, but—they will have to face the truth of it in one way or another. All Rip can do is to hope they might be prepared.]

[He lets his imagination run with that for a minute. He can picture quite a few unpleasant things that fall under "we are also altered" alone. And he's certain that he wants none of those things to happen to Kayo.]

What's the worst you've seen?

[The worst he's seen of it isn't a tale that is Rip's to share. Not even in hopes of somehow preparing these children for what may indeed come for them. So instead he speaks around it—not of the singular discovery that made the incident awful beyond measure, but the circumstances they might expect to face.]

There have been several events which have featured undead carnivorous beings. "Zombies" tends to be the colloquial term. [If he's familiar.] Again, something that sounds impossible and even ludicrous, but that is entirely real and lethal when Wonderland sees fit to make it so.

Zombies.

[Just. Just give him a minute. He's read enough comics and seen enough movies to know what that might be like, but he's sure actually experiencing it is worse. Not to mention how ludicrous the whole thing sounds.]

What about the ones where we're altered?

The only one I've experienced involved a physical alteration where certain residents were put into bodies of themselves as children. The dynamic apparently was part of the memory the event was "sourced" from.

[Rick's attempt to regain his lost youth.]

I've been told of others that can physically alter people in similar fashion, or alter their memories so they conform to whatever scenario is in play. I've yet to go through such an event myself, however.

[Wow, that event sounds a lot like Satoru's life, right now.]

So really, no matter what happens, it's going to be unpleasant in some way.

Essentially. There's ultimately been one event that I'm aware of that was seemingly "harmless;" we found ourselves on a space station with no apparent physical or mental alterations. It was merely a change of scenery.

You don't think it was harmless, though.

[Not if he's using quotation marks.]

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