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[you_dont_work_alone]

[The network comes on to show a man’s face. His brow is creased with worry and he attempts a smile, though it’s not entirely successful.]

I understand we’re all trapped here. And this is.. Wonderland? Or so I’m told. I find that notion pretty ridiculous. No doubt we’re all being fooled. We just have to look at this logically to figure out how to get back home. I’m sure the parlor tricks here are very impressive, but we can’t honestly believe we’re being held here by magic, of all things.

Anyway, my name is John Watson. I was in the British Army and I’m a doctor. If anyone needs medical attention, let me know. I’ll do what I can to help.

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[you_dont_work_alone]

Putting me right to work?

[Not the sort of response he expected, though he did offer to help.]

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[radiopalkiller]

[ He grins a little. Take your place in the work camp? No, that wasn't quite the intention. ]

You offered. They could probably use more help, for all the good it does here.

[ Injuries and circumstances beyond fixing, deaths that only inconvenience, same old, same old. And Philip genuinely couldn't care less about what anybody does with their time here. ]

You've read the pamphlet, right?

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[you_dont_work_alone]

[As it turns out, the doctor staff here is downright bored, but John doesn't mention that.]

I have.

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[radiopalkiller]

[ Well, that-- That was an answer.

Philip would muse about the events, make an elaborate guess that only every other week is hell, but then, he hasn't been to the clinic in ages, taken more and more to self-doctoring where it's needed, because what could possibly go wrong with duct tape and painkillers?

...Anyway, that's no longer really the point. The point is that Philip has no idea how to respond next, that, come to think of it, he never had any idea where this conversation was meant to be going.

Because he didn't mean to ask if John remembered, right? He didn't mean to bring it up, right, because his transmission seemed pretty clear on that, and anyway, where was the point? ]

And you already know that Sherlock Holmes is here?

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[you_dont_work_alone]

[What should John say about the pamphlet? The Welcome to Wonderland, you've probably hit your head and are suffering from a concussion or are perhaps in a coma and are imagining all of this pamphlet? John isn't sure what to make of it all.

The next question is definitely something to respond to.]

Excuse me?

[It appears he didn't.]