entranceway | Log: day 57 (video)

[The camera feed comes on showing a somewhat skewed scene of half-built robots and several large monitors surround a central control panel. Then the view rotates as Entrapta adjusts the device. Now the background shows a rather tall, deep red crystal that has wires and cords attached to it.

In front of it all, Entrapta looks very happy, despite the fact that she also looks like she hasn't eaten in some time. There's just been too much to do!]

Okay. It's day 57! [Yes, she's been keeping count of the days since she arrived.] And I've been making a lot of progress in my work!

[For a second it might seem like she's going to be using this as a sort of video diary, but she quickly moves away from that nonsense to something more pertinent.]

What I need to know is how energy flows from this side of Wonderland to the other side. If it does at all. But it must, if the Core is able to process data from this side.

[She gestures with her hair as she speaks, the ends of the strands looking perhaps alarmingly like fingers and hands.]

If I can figure out that transfer of energy, I can probably connect the black garnet [a gesture over her shoulder at the crystal] directly into the energy source! I could potentially divert power directly from the Core and it could have all sorts of potential uses!

[For a second she looks like she's going to go on about some of those potential uses, but then her stomach growls loudly enough for the mic to pick it up. She falters and then looks kind of embarrassed for a second.]

Um, but first I should probably eat something.

[With that, she reaches out with one piece of hair to turn the video off.]

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Why would that be first?

[Come on, there is so much going on here! Like the robots!]

Hair doesn't move. Are you a Gem or something?

Oh no, I'm a princess!

[Like princess is a species or something.]

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That really doesn't answer my question.

All princesses have power of some sort. Mine just happens to involve my hair.

So you're a princess because you have powers?

Maybe?

Or maybe it's the other way around!

...That wouldn't make any sense.

[Jean has come to the same conclusion: being a princess isn't a genetic trait.]

It makes just as much sense as being a princess because I have powers. After all, there are plenty of people on my world who have powers but aren't princesses. But there are no princesses who don't have powers.

[Every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square?]

Okay. Whatever. Do you think you could explain what you're doing to someone who doesn't have computers or powers or whatever that thing is behind you?

I sure can try! Let's see...

[She picks up the camera and turns it to show him the black garnet.]

That's the black garnet. It's what's called a runestone.

[She's speaking rather slowly.]

Using the runestone and some math--you know what math is, right?--I'm going to try to connect directly to Wonderland's Core.

[She's talking faster now, because she just can't keep it up. She turns the camera back on hersel.]

If I can make that connection, I may be able to siphon energy from that side of Wonderland to this side. I may be able to draw data directly from Wonderland's Core!

I know what math is. [But Jean can only manage to sound offended for a minute as he's forced to quickly absorb more knowledge.]

You'd need a mirror's help, then. You'll never find the rabbit hole if you're actually looking for it. And I'm not sure if you can cross connections through the mirrors.

Right! I'm going to try to talk my Mirror into it. I think we'll get along.

[She has zero grounds for thinking so. On the other hand, she's given some thought to what the opposite of herself might be, but hasn't come up with an ideas concrete enough to give her pause.]

I'd be careful about that if I were you. The majority of mirrors are either hostile to their reals, or totally off their rockers.

Well she can't exactly get me if I'm over here.

[She knows that there are times when the Mirrors cross over, but they seem seldom enough that she's not worried.]

Who knows, maybe your messing around will finally open the floodgates.

We can only hope!

[No, Entrapta.]

That'd be a moderate disaster at the least.

[NO, ENTRAPTA.]

But we could learn so much about the way Mirrors work if we could just get hold of them on a more regular basis!

It's not that hard to talk to them without doing dangerous science experiments. You just write on the mirrors here, and they can read it.

Well...I guess all experiments have to start somewhere. Data collection can begin without having the subjects present.

Please. Start small before you blow us all to smithereens.

[She seems inordinately pleased that he thinks she could do that. Like she's going to have to prove him right or something.]

I promise I'll do whatever the experiment requires!

[...That is probably not comforting. Nor is it what he was asking for.]

[Jean gets the distinct feeling that he's going to have to keep a close eye on this fresh lunatic.]

Have you been listening to me at all?

I...

Yyyes.

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