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Back in the summer of last year I made inquiries about the experiences of Wonderland residents who hail from time periods before a more "modern" era, in the hopes of creating a guide that might best facilitate the transition for them to contemporary advances. The project fell through for a number of reasons not long after-

[Primarily because she left, died, and came back, which tends to put a bit of a damper on personal research, but that is not known by the general public.]

-but I am happy to have produced a pamphlet that I hope the rest of you might circulate with the...ah, existing one [that nondescript abomination] should you meet someone unfamiliar with the communications devices, or the appliances in the kitchen.

Please feel free to refer anyone with questions about bookkeeping and records to me, I've recently reorganised our archives in the west wing of the library.

[With that, Evelyn cuts the feed.

The project came as a distraction more than anything, something that had been pushed to the backburner in her grief, practically forgotten while she dragged herself through the days following her death in August. Being someone with an immense proclivity to work that others might find tedious or mind-numbing she weighed the options before her following the morning six days ago when she had woken up to find her bed empty again, the only belongings left behind a linen shirt and a cup of cold Turkish coffee on the counter.

It almost came as no surprise as she had sluggishly poured the beverage out in the sink, rinsing the porcelain. Why should it, anymore?

Later in the day Evelyn can be found in the unlikeliest of places: Wonderland's fifth floor bar, drowning dismay with whisky and rye.]

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Speaking as a very new person, it is very useful to have that pamphlet. It sums it all up in a constructive way.

I am from a time period where this technology is all pretty common place, but I still like there's a pamphlet available.

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You are new indeed, as we have yet to meet until now.

[Evelyn very much likes to familiarise herself with new arrivals, and not simply because people tend to nudge them toward the library regardless.]

If you don't mind my asking, what is the year in your world?

Uh, Hi. Peter Parker.

[He gives a small awkward wave of his hand. Even back home, he was not much for social media simply because he is not all that great at socializing, but it is useful in a place like this where Bing isn't available to ask any question and there are no major news outlets to report... news.]

Nah, don't mind. Seems like an important question around here. 2012. You?

[Unfortunately for many of those savvy with the modern Internet, the primary means of edifying oneself is the library, which means that Evelyn has an active and thriving job that keeps her occupied.

If there is one small comfort she has left in Wonderland, it is the stacks.]

Evelyn O'Connell, and 1935.

[Peter lets out a low breath at the year, bites down on his lip, and then tilts his head to the side as a thought occurs to him.]

...did you put that part in there about metal in the microwave from personal experience? [It is very emphatic in its caps locking.]

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...yes.

[Yes, yes, she knows she's old-fashioned. Let's not make any snide comments on it.]

The majority of appliances did not come with instructional manuals. Unfortunately.

[There are no snide comments at all. There's just a little smirk on his face.] If it makes you feel better, when I was like ten, I once put metal into a microwave even though I knew I wasn't supposed to.

I wanted to see what would happen. I got in so much trouble.

[Evelyn suddenly finds it very difficult to contain a laugh.]

You didn't! The microwave caught fire, did it?

It did. [Peter doesn't mind laughter. It is part of why he told the story so she wouldn't feel so bad] They had to call the firemen and everything. It mostly just smoked up our kitchen.

I wasn't allowed unsupervised there... for some time after that.

[Heartened by the confession - it's good to hear that even people in the twenty-first century struggle with technology - Evelyn raises an eyebrow.]

What is "some time?" A week, or a year?

[She might still be laughing, just a little.]

[Peter lifts an eyebrow right back at her like he knows that she's still laughing at him.]

A...couple years. [He flails a hand about dramatically.] I was too into science!!!

[too curious for his own good...]

You're not alone in that respect, then - as far as I'm aware, we have a number of scientists in residence.

[And so few historians. Why the opposition to the humanities, Wonderland?]

Yeah, I've met a couple of them.

Anyone ever do like some kind of record of who arrives, where their interests and knowledge lie? Doubt there's any meaning there, but...

[Sometimes his brain just thinks of ideas, reaching out for whatever he can find.]

...I do, actually.

[Evelyn doesn't think this should come as any surprise, seeing as her initial transmission expressed her duty to the records room, her work in the archives.]

It's not a precise manifest, I don't always meet everyone and sometimes people stay for weeks before disappearing, but I've kept a fairly accurate census for the last four and a half years. If I'm able to wrestle the information out of people, I put that sort of thing in their file.

[It's not a surprise at all though Peter seems to think it is very awesome by the smile that tugs across his face.]

Really? Can't say that is too surprising, but it's really smart to keep those on file. You can wrestle any information out of me that you want. I mean, anything to keep the- the fountain of knowledge... flowing.

[Yep. Great... metaphor there, Peter]

[Terrible metaphor, Peter.

Evelyn laughs either way, slightly indulgent but interested in the prospect of more information she can add to her growing collection of files.]

I appreciate the candour. Perhaps we might take tea sometime and talk more extensively about your world.

[Peter clears his throat lightly when she laughs, and then he ducks his head.]

Yeah. Tea- Tea is what people drink. [He's never really had it before.] We can do that. Talk then. My world is mostly boring though just to warn you.

[Other than the cross species genetics part of it which is very, very... recent.]

People who say that are just being modest. Or they think they've seen everything.

[Evelyn certainly hasn't, and she once resurrected somebody.]

You should come by the library for a cuppa this weekend.

Nobody's seen everything so if anyone thinks that, they're wrong.

[They're so very, very wrong.]

Okay, I'll do that. I'd like to know whatever you've learned that you're willing to share too. Lots of research you've put into this place and the people in it. Impressive.

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