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[The feed is turned away from Kid, showing a view of a shattered Wonderland, chunks of land suspended in midair, some of them connected by bridges made out of debris, some not. Some are small, some are large. The feed catches a door and a section of wall tumbling out into the nothingness below with a crack of wood and metal.]

Yeah, this one's mine.

[Kid keeps the camera pointed out at Wonderland. He doesn't want to look at the camera right now. Of all the events to happen only a week after his death, it had to be this one. It's adding insult to injury, this reminder of what his world has become, and all the things that go along with it. And all of this on top of hearing that Dean has vanished.]

[It's just been a miserable month.]

Looks jus' like Caelondia. 'S uncanny. [That's one word for it. "Disturbing" is another.] Figger things're pretty obvious here. Don' bother tryin' t' jump, it jus' ain't worth th' risk 'nless ya got some Hop-Scotch on ya, an' I dunno 'f the closets are gonna work. S'ppose Wonderland ain't gonna be kind like Caelondia an' form up bridges 'neath yer feet. Keep t' ropes an' such. We got folk what kin fly here, yeah? They might be willin' t'help.

I'd gen'rally say jus' stay in one place, but that means settin' fer three 'r four days without food an' water fer some. 'F th' diner's whole, I'd say head that way. 'Course I ain't got no idea where it's ended up.

Jus'...look out fer each other. An' don't fall. [He pauses.] Th' gods sure ain't gonna catch ya.

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They was a way, but...but it jus' didn' feel right. Don' think it woulda really worked. Only thing we could do was leave it all behind; start over.

Ah. ...I see.

[It's a shame though, it really is. A whole world full of people suffered over it...and to think, she had thought this event was not quite as worrisome as some of the others.]

Were you able to do that at least? It seems like it's difficult to move around...

[To be fair, they didn't suffer much at all. It was pretty instantaneous.]

Yeah, we had...methods an' such.

That's good at least. It would probably be um...inconvenient for you if you didn't.

[She can't even picture trying to travel around like this all the time.]

Heh, yeah. Lotta fallin' otherwise.

Mm. T-That wouldn't be good for anyone at all!

[She seems a little startled, like she accidentally pictured it in her head just now.]

Ain't good 'tall. Pretty miserable--done it a few times.

W-WHAT? Really? Were you okay?

[Well...obviously, since he's here. But still!]

We had a system t'sorta catch ya in case ya fell, a sorta...sky... [Well, that's odd. He can't remember the word for it, despite having used it all the time back home. It was really the only way to reach anywhere from the Bastion. Sky...something.]

Huh, can't remember th' name right now. But it kept it so ya landed right back where ya fell off. Let ya travel t'distant places too.

Hm...

[Tohru tries to think of the name too, though there's no way she could possibly know what it's called.]

It's not the same thing, but...it reminds me a little bit of a circus net! Circus performers do all kinds of tricks in the air and jump from swing to swing, and they have a big net underneath to catch them if they slip and fall.

Oh...sure, a safety net. Yeah, s'kinda like that. Bit more t'do with winds, but same gen'ral idea.

[She's not sure how winds would help with nets, but she's relieved just the same.]

Well, either way, I'm glad there was something there to catch you!

[He smiles very faintly, thinking about what he said earlier.] Yeah. Sure is better'n nothin'.

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