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entranceway2015-03-06 07:29 pm
singloversing) wrote in entranceway2015-03-06 07:29 pm
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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.]
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.]
[ Video ]
[It's finally tipped into an unpleasant place, dipping into the murky black waters of the unknown, of what can't be known.]
...but if that's all true, how can we tell what reality is? H-How do we know any of this is real at all?
[But that's exactly the problem. They don't because they can't and it's something Wirt finds deeply uncomfortable.]
Um, that's...that's cool about the door though. I didn't realize you could do things like that here.
[To be honest, he hasn't played with his room very much because he hasn't been able to shake the feeling that it doesn't really belong to him, and that he shouldn't mess it up too much.]
[ Video ]
That door was a special case, I think. My boyfriend, he was- [ A pause, small but noticeable. ] Is very unique. He’s kind of an expert in dealing with strange things, and he is the most amazing public speaker you’ve ever heard. Or private speaker. Speaker in general. The most amazing person who can make sounds with their mouth that also happen to form words that other people recognize as language. If anyone could talk a door into Wonderland, it’s him. It wouldn’t surprise me if it only worked because of him.
[ Video ]
...And it's kind of nice. That discomfort melts into something warmer. It always feels good to hear someone talking about the person they love, and reaffirming that love is real and not just something teenage dorks with mixtapes talk about.]
He sounds like a great guy. [A pause.] ...Is he person close to you who left Wonderland? If so, that...that must be really difficult, to be away from him. I'm sorry.
[ Video ]
[ If he sounds a little bitter there, it’s because he is. Carlos is really pretty tired of whole universes telling him where he can and can't be. But the smile he gives Wirt is genuine despite that. ]
Thank you. It is difficult, but part of me is happy that he’s back home. He missed it so much.
[ Video ]
[At least, that's what Wirt would assume. Carlos' boyfriend is probably safe at home, doing whatever he does in his home world that definitely isn't the stuff of nightmares.]