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[Wirt has never addressed the network directly, or on purpose. He's never felt the need to, and he's not much of a public broadcast kind of guy. The whole public speaking thing usually leaves him weak in the knees, but this is different. It's an emergency.]

H-Has-- Has anyone seen my brother, Greg?

[Wirt quickly turns the camera away from himself and shows the room behind him. The view is shaky, due to his unsteady hands, but it gets the point across - it's back to the default, like Greg was never there at all. Even his frog is nowhere to be found.]

I-I-I...sure he runs off on his own a lot, but-- but! But I would have heard from him by now, o-or there would be some sign of him somewhere, right? It's like he just...disappeared, out of nowhere! Spirited away somewhere!

[He's panicking. He's absolutely panicking and he's still kind of half-expecting Greg to just pop out somewhere and be like "Oh hey Wirt! I wound a WAY better room!" or something. Wirt knots his fingers in his hair, which knocks his hat slightly out of place. He can't help thinking of every horrible possibility. Didn't someone say there was a serial killer on the loose, or a cannibal or something? Or what if he's hurt somewhere, or worse? Does that make all your things disappear? Wirt hasn't been in Wonderland long enough to know.]

He...H-He's about this tall. [Wirt gestures accordingly, bending down a little.] He's six years old, a-and he's-- teakettle! He's been wearing a teakettle on his head! And there's...there's this frog he's been carrying around everywhere - I think his name's James right now? Greg might've changed it by now b-but you can't really miss them. Has anyone seen them? Anyone? Please, if someone knows where he is...!

[They're not going to know. Greg's gone. Greg's gone and this is useless. Wirt looks down, not sure what else to ask, or what else to do. But, there's only one thing he can do.]

I...I have to go. But please, if anyone sees him, let me know? Um, thank you. ...I appreciate it.

[He shoves the device in his pocket, but forgets to shut it off. The last few seconds on his broadcast are just the sound of Wirt running as fast as he can down the hall. There's only one place he hasn't looked yet, so maybe...maybe he's in the woods, where they first arrived.]

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[Kaneki is--SURPRISE!--on his way to the library when he notices Wirt dashing toward the entrance. He hasn't been paying attention to the network, so he doesn't know what's up. He blinks and waves a hand to get Wirt's attention.]

Wirt-kun! Are you okay?

[For a split second when he's first flagged down, Wirt lets himself hope that maybe someone actually has good news for him. But Kaneki doesn't seem to have heard, so any hope of that is extinguished immediately.]

Kaneki! Have you seen my brother Greg anywhere? Uh, six years old, wearing a kettle, probably? With a frog?

[He kind of babbled it, but he doesn't remember if Kaneki's actually met him or not.]

His...his room was empty this morning. I can't find him anywhere!

I met him once before. He caused the flood of frogs at Christmas, didn’t he? [ Carlos speaks up louder than usual, aware that the sound of his voice will be muffled by Wirt’s pocket. He had promised to show Greg the first dinosaur he found in Wonderland, and that had been about the extent of their interaction with one another, but he still feels a twist of anxiety at the thought that something had happened to him. If Greg is missing within Wonderland, then… the possibilities are mixed. If he’s still in Wonderland.

Have you checked his room? I know this is a strange question, but was it still there?

[ He knows the feeling of finding no door where you’ve come to expect one. ]

[Kaneki blinks. Okay, Wirt is more upset than Kaneki had guessed.]

No... I'm sorry, I haven't see him. But...it sounds like he may have gone back home.

[He's not sure if that will be a relief or make things worse, honestly, so he tries to speak as gently as he can.]

[The Pie Maker knows this fear.

It is visceral and sharp and brings about a certain queasiness in a person that he cannot abide, a worry that the person you are searching for is no longer there, that they are far away and you cannot reach them. Wirt, the anxious boy with the gnome hat, is reenacting Ned's frantic search for Chuck in the snow, and he hastens to answer his call.]

Do you need help looking? I can- I can help you, I'm-

[...Tall?]

Tell me where to look.

Huh? [He stops running for a minute and fishes the device out of his pocket to reply.]

Yeah! Yeah, that was him!

[There's a very brief relief in his voice, that somehow he had managed to describe Greg well enough in his panic that someone Wirt's never met actually recognized him. But, there's only room for so much relief when Greg is still missing, and Wirt has no idea what to make of the room question.]

Uh...yes and no? I-I mean it was there, and there was a door and a room but it was totally empty. Like when we first get here, I guess? It didn't look like anyone was living there anymore, much less a little kid.

[No six-year-old's room is that clean, in any world.]

[Now, it wasn't that Brittany wasn't sympathetic to the poor boy's plight. She had seen plenty of people come and go in her time. It definitely sucked. And she could see how badly it was affecting.]

[But before she could touch on that, there was one thing bothering her:]

How come you're still a puppet?

[One look at that outfit and there could be no other explanation.]

[There's surprise in his face at the offer. He figured people would either chime in with wherever they had last seen Greg or just ignore the message altogether. The fact that someone actually stopped to help astonishes him.]

I...I've looked everywhere I can think of in the mansion. I-I haven't seen him anywhere so...

[He's scattered and nervous and he doesn't know what to ask for, or what would help. Where else would Greg be?]

...So, uh. I'm going to look outside. Maybe-- maybe he's out where you found us?

[Maybe he decided to try and find a way back himself. ...Or maybe he actually found one, and he's long gone.]

Gone home?

[He says it like the possibility hadn't occurred to him. He's assumed that if they showed up together that they would leave together as well, but if that's not true...then it leaves one really important concern.]

...All the way home?

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[It's so far from any kind of response Wirt was expecting that he can't remember what words are for a second.]

...W-What? I'm not a puppet anymore!

[He has no idea how to express that though, aside from the fact that his face is no longer wooden and he can actually change expressions, so he just...awkwardly wiggles his arms, and then turns his head back and forth a couple times.]

See? No strings, better movement...but, uh. Why would you think I'm still a puppet...?

[...okay, she had to admit that was a pretty convincing argument. Still.]

Your clothes.

[ Carlos has experienced this feeling before- the nauseating weight of bearing bad news- back on the few occasions he’d had to inform the families of his scientists about a lab accident. Thankfully there had been no deaths involved (just one minor injury and the production of an extra limb, which had actually doubled the tech’s efficiency) but that didn’t make it any easier. It doesn’t help now, either. ]

That’s… [ Where does he even begin? He seems to struggle for the right words. The comm flickers from just audio to a video feed of a very apologetic looking man. ] Wonderland seems to bring us here randomly, and… sometimes, it sends us back the same way. If your brother’s room is empty, that means he’s been sent back to whatever world and timeline you came from. He's not here anymore.

What do you mean?

[What can that possibly mean?]

[Wirt looks down at his clothes, frowning.]

It's, uh--

[...Not anywhere near Halloween anymore, so that explanation isn't going to cut it. His face goes pink when he realizes that he probably looks like a nerd (which is especially embarrassing since she turned out to be an exceptionally pretty human being).]

...I-It doesn't matter, right? Right? Ha, ha...the point is I am definitely, absolutely, not a puppet.

[Her brows furrowed together. Genuinely confused.]

Wait.

You mean...you dress like that...normally?

[She didn't say it to be mean. Her bullying days were long behind her, though some habits were incredibly hard to break.]

Why?

Well, uh...we kind of...weren't at home before we got here? It's kind of hard to explain, but...y-you see, there was this place! This place called the Unknown and we got lost there...somehow.

[The details on that are vague in his memories, but he's pretty sure it was Greg's fault.]

We were trying to figure out how to get home when we were brought here, so...I'm not sure "going home" is...going home, if that makes any sense at all. It probably doesn't. The whole thing's pretty bonkers.

[That...isn't really the answer he was hoping for, and it shows on Wirt's face.]

But this place brought us both here at the exact same time...why wouldn't it send us both back at once?

[Why would Wonderland ever send just Greg away?]

...Yes?

[He's not sure that's the right answer though and he quickly amends it, waving his hands in front of him.]

I-I mean, not the hat and the-- that part of it's not. That was just a, uh. A costume! I-I mean it's not a very good costume but I don't normally wear capes and pointy hats. That...would be weird! And I'm not...

[Unfortunately, he's pretty sure he sounds weird though and that's enough for him to trail off. If he keeps going he's just going to dig his nerdy hole deeper.]

[ Alex doesn't usually respond to the "so and so is missing" posts, mainly because he never knew the person who's left. But he had talked to the teakettle-and-frog kid. ]

So you're his brother? I... He's probably gone home, from what I've heard, if he's not here.

[Kaneki listens, frowning slightly.]

Are you worried he's back there by himself?

[ Part of her just wants to say not to worry. Greg wanders off on his own all the time, after all. Him disappearing for a little while is nothing really new or strange. But Wirt is really freaking out, which means...well, she's not really sure, but worry is starting to gnaw at her stomach. ]

Wirt, where are you? We can look together, you know?

[ Arguably, they would cover more ground separately. But she doesn't want to leave him to freak out alone. ]

Not what?

[It took a moment, but things started to sink in. A costume, he said. Her eyes squinted for a moment, staring intensely, before she eventually leaned back and sighed.]

Well, I guess it's okay for a costume. I mean, the hat does kind of suit you a bit.

Were you going to a party or something?

[Some people might be relieved to hear that, but given their situation it really, really doesn't help.]

Wh-what-- what about people who weren't home when they got here? Where do they go? Wherever they came from, or...?

[Or is Greg in the Unknown alone because Wonderland decided to ship him off first?]

Beatrice! I'm-- I went out to the woods.

[Probably not the best or safest plan, but it's a plan.]

I-I don't know where else to look! His room is totally empty, like...it doesn't look like anyone ever stayed in it. It's like he just...just disappeared into thin air!

[And that's not like Greg. He wanders off but he's impossible to ignore. Greg does his own thing but if Wirt ever looked hard enough he would always find some sign of him around.]

N-Not exactly? I did kind of wind up at a party, but...

[Wirt frowns a bit. He's over-complicating this and making himself hard to understand.]

Uh. ...It was Halloween at home.

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