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[talesuntold]

[Maggie looks a bit paler and much more exhausted than usual, but puts on as warm and chipper a front as she can. She's clearly sitting on the floor as she posts this.]

Hello again, Wonderland! While it's good to see all of your lovely faces, those nine flights of stairs up to my room are a considerably less welcome sight. Would someone be so kind as to help me up to my bed? A couple of someones if necessary? I've had an eventful week and I'm not at my best.

Once that's managed, I intend to stay there for a few days at barest minimum.

I'll be hosting horror movie marathons tomorrow night and the night after, in room 969, barring Wonderland-interference. Prior acquaintance not required! If horror isn't your cup of tea, feel free to stop by during the afternoons instead. Incidentally, non-metaphorical cups of tea will be available, or your hot or caffeinated beverage of choice. Hope to see you soon, darlings!

((Spam tags for movie night or afternoon visits also welcome!))


[Private to Mahir, Shaun, and Georgia]

[More seriously, dropping any pretense:]

How long was I gone? Let me find my bed, and then all of you get over here before you ask what you've missed back home.

[She doesn't want to do this more than once.]

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[talesuntold]

"There was just shy of a year between Dave's death and the death of the woman I loved before him. And yes, it was related to the CDC and the government. We knew, but we finally managed to get proof the day before I came back to Wonderland." Or her team did, as Maggie holed up in the Agora getting medical attention and watched the After the End Times servers like a hawk while she waited for information to roll in.

"Just before the bombs came down, one of the last things Dave said was, 'I loved you a lot. I loved my job a lot. I guess that makes me one of the lucky ones.' I didn't get the message till after he was dead, but I suppose I am grateful it exists."

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[screwedontight]

"I know I probably sound like a dick, but I would think that's better than not having it at all," he says, showing how Seth's mind works.

"Also, not maybe the best thing to say but it's Wonderland. For all you know, there's a chance that he could show up here. Wonderland's done things like that before," he notes. "Not that I'm sure that's comforting or not though."

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[talesuntold]

"You may be a dick, but I agree with you," Maggie tells him.

"And don't, please. The possibility had already occurred to me. I can't dwell on it too much, or I'll never settle in here." She can't live like that, hoping constantly. How do you recover from a loss if you spend all your time thinking about the remote possibility that it might be reversed? Hearing how she just missed seeing Buffy broke her heart all over again. She got a farewell from Dave, at least. She never had that with Buffy. "I'll be grateful if it happens, but unless it does, I don't want to talk about it."

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[screwedontight]

"I wonder sometimes about Richie coming back... but from before we had all our fights. Not ever sure if that's good or bad." A live. Not a culebra. Also with that psycho in his head still. What would that do in this place?

"I always wondered what would happen if they ever sent us back to earlier times?" He sighs. "I over think a lot here. Why I drink."