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[For those that know Seth, he's looking much better than he has for months. Pulled together, all sharp creases and straight lines. There's no dark circles under his eyes and he doesn't seem to have a glass in front of him. At least for now.

He also looks bitterly amused.]

A guy goes out into the woods for one freaking week to try and get his head on straight and you all go nuts. Nice to see that much as some things change, everything else just remains the same.

With a week or so of sobering up and learning my paranoia apparently has jackshit to do with my diet of scotch and whiskey, I had a thought that came to me and if I have to live with these thoughts, so do the rest of you.

How do we know that everyone that vanishes goes home? I mean, what if some of those that are positive about serial killers and criminals in our midst... [Hello, pot? This is the kettle.] ... what if they're right and someone's bumping people off and we just assume they're being sent home like so many others?

After that thought, not sure if sobriety will pay off but we'll see how long it lasts.

{Locked to Chloe}

How are you?

{Locked to Maggie}

Where are you? Are you okay?

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Events would screw that up, wouldn't they? If the whole Mansion changes, there's no reason anyone kept somewhere like that wouldn't freed.

[Unless, yes, Wonderland is helping.]

[He's quiet a moment, then nodding.]

Fair enough. That makes sense. Unless one of the nutty royalty around here is encouraging them.

I guess that's possible...

[But not probable, in his view.]

Hiding their victims away aside, I feel like a serial killer would have a hard time hiding here. There are only so many people to suspect.

Maybe. Unless they were that good. If you can hide your nature...

[He snorts, rolling his eyes.]

Okay, maybe after a while you wouldn't be able to keep it up. Hiding it, that is.

But depending on how good you were, you could hide it for awhile for sure.

[A beat.]

But how serious is this line of thought, actually?

Especially if no one was looking for it. Would you? I haven't. Not unless they got in my face and was obvious about it.

I don't know. Maybe a bit. More worried, I think, than thinking it's something we have to deal with right now.

It's not a bad thing to be thinking of possibilities like that. But it can probably make you pretty paranoid after a while.

Well, I came with the paranoia before Wonderland. It just hasn't helped.

I can see how it wouldn't.

Does asking about it on the network help?

Sometimes, yeah. That whole not in this alone shit. Or others looking out for it all too.

Yeah. It's nice to know people here have your back.