entranceway | OPINION } from Images May Disturb You, the Blog of Georgia Mason, entry #2

If there's one thing I've learned about Wonderland in the weeks that I've been forced to start calling it home: it's that it lies to you. But so do lots of people, right? Everyone has a reason to lie. Some people lie to hurt other people, but some people lie out of kindness. Some people try to protect you with comforting falsehoods. How do we know that Wonderland isn't lying for our own good? I can't tell you that. I don't know Wonderland's motivations, if there even is any sort of guiding intelligence behind it and not just pure chance. What I can tell you is this: it doesn't matter. Lying out of kindness is just as bad as lying out of cruelty. Possibly even worse. Comforting falsehoods might be nicer in the moment than cruel truths, but I'll take the truth every time. Is it better to spare a family by telling them their dying child might get better? Or to allow them to cherish the time they have left? Is it better to tell someone their writing is good? Or send them an honest critique that could let them actually improve until you could say so without it being a lie? Is it better to lose the memories that have hurt you and spend a weekend in blissful ignorance? Or hold onto every iota of the pain that has built you and remember exactly why you fight? Lies won't take the time to heal you. Only the truth can do that. Wonderland is the biggest lie I've ever seen. I cannot promise a way out of this gilded, wonderful cage. That would be a lie, even if it's one I'd like to believe. I can only promise that I'll do everything I can to find the truth all of those lies are working at concealing. I won't quit until I uncover all the secrets Wonderland is hiding. Or until Wonderland gets tired of all the prodding and sends me home. Here's hoping, right?

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Alice. If you want to find out which others there are, you have the entire archive of posts spanning back further than I've been able to reach yet. If you want me to do your research for you, you'll have to wait until I decide to do an article about it.

I suppose I have more than enough time to wait for an article.

... But the girl was Alice? What happened to her eyes?

[Thankfully, this is a simple text post. Otherwise, George would notice Dorian silently freaking out over the revelation.]

You're really having trouble with the "do your own research" part of this, aren't you?

[George might write her articles for anyone to read, but she will always, always encourage her readers to make their own opinions and do their own research. There's no room for complacency with her.]

I'm sorry, but I would look more into it myself if I better understood the technology.

[He's from the 19th century! Give him a break!]

I've attempted looking for books in the library on this world, but there were none to be found.

Edited 2016-11-11 01:29 (UTC)

Did you check out the one called Alice in Wonderland?

I am familiar with that book, and I have read through it.

However, nowhere in the story or its sequel was there any mention of strange technology, people being pulled into a mansion from different worlds, memories being taken for longer than a few minutes, or poor Alice somehow loosing her eyes.

Now that I think of it, Wonderland seemed much bigger in the novel than whatever this place is.

It's not a far leap of logic to deduce that if anyone was mentioned in the original story shows up on the network, they're probably one of the heralds of the events.

You have a point, Miss Mason.

[Dorian's polite, at least.]

Thank you for the warning.

OPINION } from Images May Disturb You, the Blog of Georgia Mason, entry #2

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