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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[Not many people are as uncompromising about lies as George is. It's probably a good thing for the continued functionality of the world.]

It's the only damn way they'll get me complacent.

[Georgia's a fighter. Even if her usual weapon is words.]

Glad to hear it. The way I see it, it's my job to find the truth. The fact that I'm in a different universe doesn't make it any less important.

Your job? Fantastic! You're hired.

[It's a little tongue-in-cheek, but he's always glad to speak to others who still have that spark in them to fight against Wonderland.]

Frankly the fact that you're in another universe probably makes it even more important than usual. After all, the truth might set us free.

[Get it? 'Cause they're trapped? ...Well, at least James thinks he's funny.]

Happily self-employed, actually.

[She's her own boss. She doesn't think she could ever answer to anyone else now. And, well, she won't have to.]

I wouldn't discount how important it was back home [she literally gave her life for it, it has to have been important or it's even less worth it than she already sometimes feels it was] but that generally is how it goes. Once you know the truth, you can know your options for dealing with it.

That's true. It'll open up more possibilities for how to deal with Wonderland in general, since it likes robbing the truth from us.

Out of curiosity, does your world have any sort of memory magic?

[It's worth asking, eve if he's got to ask blindly.]

Magic's not real. Not where I'm from, anyway.

Aw. Shame, that. Was worth a shot though.

Magic's real where I'm from. I'm a wizard!

[International Statute of Secrecy? What International Statute of Secrecy?]

[....sigh. She'll never stop hating this. Magic doesn't make sense.]

From Hogwarts?

Yes, actually! Lucky guess.

[A lucky guess he gets a lot, to be honest.]

Not really. Wonderland was Hogwarts when I first showed up, and I know events come from people's worlds. It seemed like a likely conclusion.

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

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