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[Julia has found her way up to the roof where she's nursing a cigarette, not that anyone can see that as she speaks over the network. she's been to other worlds, but it's always been intentional, in her control (well, except for a few times when penny has grabbed her, but this wasn't penny's doing) and this? this is out of her control and she does not like the things she cannot control.

and yet not everything about this place is bad. it has magic. it feels more alive than her own world has been in a long time.]

Hello, my name is Julia Wicker

I found the pamphlet when I arrived, so I'll spare you the part where I demand where I am or how I got here, and I'll try to accept that there isn't a way home yet, but I've never been one to be good at taking no for answer, so there's no promises there.

For those of you who are familiar with the Wonderland books, how does this compare to the Wonderland in Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There? Are there any similarities to be found or is it completely different. I've been to a world that was in a book series I loved as a kid before and it was interesting to note what the author got right and what was completely off, what details were left out or changed.

Adaptations of any sort are an interesting case study, if nothing else. What gets kept in the narrative and what gets changed and manipulated by those telling the stories.

Thank you for indulging my curiosity. You can answer me here, or if you prefer to talk in person, I can be found up on the roof.

[and with that she cuts off the feed. for anyone who comes to talk to her in person when they come up to the roof they'll find her still smoking and making shapes in the smoke, mostly stars, mostly just because she can, because she's not the only thing with magic here, and she doesn't have to feel the burden of that quite as heavily here.]

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And I imagine the versions here might be very different than they were in the books.

[at least it feels like a safe assumption to make. that had often been the case with things in the Fillory books vs how they actually were in Fillory.]

Probably. They talk in the same amount of riddles, though.

[Which is totally fun.]

You'll see them pop in eventually. They tend to show up to "warn" us when events are coming, and I use the term "warn" very loosely.

I'm guessing those warnings are where the riddles come in? Giving vague information, but not necessarily enough to go by.

[she's encountered that sort of thing a few times before, at least.]

Bingo.

[Because they may as well be speaking in riddles.]

It's hard to say if they're being intentionally obtuse or they just don't realize that they aren't being understood, but either way, they don't really seem to care.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was intentional -- that seems to be common in ominous warnings, leave it vague and obtuse because it's more fun that way.

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I guess. Let's watch the dumb prisoners scurry around to try and figure it out.

[Drizella smirks a bit.]

I think the funnier thing is the people who try to berate an actual answer out of them, as though that's actually going to work.

Sounds like all that does is waste time, time that we already probably don't have a lot of once those warnings go up.

A few days, give or take.

[She shrugs.]

I don't know what they expect to get out of them, but people try all the same.

I suppose something has to be said about their determination, if nothing else.

[She nods.]

So far the events I've seen have been too weird for them to even try and explain. And they're a distraction from the real problem.

The real problem being that we're all kidnapped and held here against our will?

That, plus sometimes it feels like this place is trying to kill us.

[But that's only a small aside, right?]

Are the events really that bad?

[because the more she hears about them, the more it raises some of her alarm.]

The ones I've experienced haven't been. They've been weird, but not murderous. I have heard though that that isn't always the case and there have been a lot of complaints about zombies, so ...

[Basically it's a crap shoot.]

Better to be prepared for the worst, then.

[because it sounds like this place is capable of just about anything.]

Yep.

[There's a beat.]

Also some of them may come from your own memories. So if you have anything incredibly horrific in your world, be sure to warn us when Wonderland decides to take it out to play.

[swallows dryly at that. she can think of a few things from her world that would be terrible to happen here. the beast. reynard. losing one's shade. there's so many possibilities.

she pushes it down.]

I'll be sure to do that if it ever comes up.

Good.

[Hopefully she'll be herself enough to be honest about it.]

Anyway, good luck. Hopefully your first event won't be too terrible.

Thanks, I hope so too.

Anyway.

[Because she's not that great at pleasantries.]

Is there anything else you want to know?

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