Dreams feel real while you’re in them, don’t they? [ Carlos is hardly able to stop grinning now. This new theory is the most interesting thing he’s had to examine in quite a while. ] Maybe we only have to do those things because this reality is shaped by our expectations, and why would we expect such normal things to change? If enough people here thought that they would have to live as normally as possible, then… [ He shrugs, palms up, as if to say ‘and that’s that.’ ]

My boyfriend and I had managed to talk a door into existence between our two rooms here in the Mansion. I had thought it was just us communicating somehow to a sentient part of Wonderland, but maybe it had more to do with us than with something outside of us. Of course, that doesn’t mean that there’s not some outside force at work. Wonderland has its own sway over everyone here. But for all we know, the truth could be a lot weirder than we had previously thought…