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[ Robin doesn't use his device too terribly often; not because he doesn't understand how to use it - he's caught on well by now - but he'd still much prefer to speak with someone in person, unless of course they really only need to ask something briefly of each other. It serves a purpose, he won't deny that.

And today, he's decided to step outside of his comfort zone and deviate from how he normally conducts himself, posing a few questions and observations to anyone who might be listening.

He's in the dining room at the moment, giving some thought as to what he wants to eat, and his face is rather perfectly centered as he speaks. ]

Before my arrival here in Wonderland, I had a brief stay in a small village by the name of Storybrooke. Everyone frequented Granny's diner, so I presume the food was extraordinary there, but I regretfully didn't have much time to sample it all.

[ He thinks for a moment, trying to remember some of the menu items: ]

I enjoyed the burger I was able to try, and the grilled cheese.

I was curious about something called buffalo wings. Does anyone know much about the buffalo? It must be rather small, based on its wing structure.

[ He's familiar with chickens, and the meat that comprises burgers, but buffalo is something new to him. ]

I've come to understand there's a particular type of food unique to diners, and while this place isn't a diner in the strictest sense, we can certainly acquire any of the food normally found there. I'm not sure what I should try. Any suggestions?

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[ True, it is. But then -- yes. He's beaten him to it. ]

Well done, actually. I am Robin Hood. It's a pleasure.

[Okay, if the next person Tybalt speaks to is Hamlet, he's leaving.

He laughs, actually quite amused]

Rand.

[ Certainly not the worst reaction he could have incurred. ]

As we're getting to know one another a bit, might I ask where it is you come from?

San Francisco, in California.

[Though Tybalt's pretty sure that America wasn't a thing when Robin Hood was supposedly around, he did mention diners.]

[ He actually has heard of California. And New York. And a handful of other places, far removed from Sherwood Forest. ]

What was it like there? Wooded, or...busy, like the city of New York?

[ He has no concept of rural versus urban or suburban. ]

A city, though it's nothing like New York and there's quite a few parks in the city. It might be bigger, but New York built up. San Francisco spread out.

Interesting. I've never been to either, though I'd enjoy seeing them both if circumstances ever allowed for it. I hear there's much more to do in cities than...elsewhere.

Elsewhere?

[Do you mean here or something else, Hood?]

Ah, sorry. I...do believe there's a particular name for those areas far beyond your larger cities. Small villages...towns? [ He's searching for the words rural & suburbs but as he's not used those words before, they're eluding him. ]

Suburbs?

Precisely. Your suburbs are rather more mundane, like Storybrooke. Small, not...much going on, not on the scale of a city like New York.

There's little that has as much going on in it as New York.

[Just saying. Of course he's really a city cat so...]

But suburbs are for people who want the city, but don't want the noise. They're meant to be quieter and boring.

I'd quite like to see these cities one day.

Though I doubt I'd want to live there, truthfully.

I prefer them to the suburbs, but I've lived in them all my life. It's an acquired taste.

Has Wonderland been an easy adjustment, then? Have you been here long?

Only a few months and...well, I've had worse prisons.

I'm sorry to hear that, certainly not something I'd wish for anyone to experience more than once.

[Well, if anyone would know about prisons, it'd probably be him, huh?]

Mm. It was rarely my fault. People just get so touchy when you've had enough of their insanity.

What...happened, exactly? Unless you'd rather not speak of it at length.

It's complicated.

[Involving crazy Duchesses, forbidden lands of Faerie, and a nasty case of iron poisoning. Yeah. "Complicated".]

Something best discussed in person, or not at all? In any case, I'd say our paths should cross in person at some point. Meeting over these devices isn't quite the same as meeting face to face.

It's really best not to discuss it at all. It's almost political, and that's dull as well as complicated.

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