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[ssmisery]

[Lapis isn't the kind of person who immediately responds to being trapped in a strange place by posting to its social media. Right now she's had time to acquaint herself with the situation, i.e. freak out, i.e. find a couple helpful pamphlets, poke her head inside the mansion, and then spend some time trying very hard to leave. This is just as well since everyone's already had enough of drowning for a while.

It's only after she's exhausted herself that her attention wanders to the little device waiting patiently for her, as if it knew she'd have to give up. It'd probably look smug if it could. Just in case it might actually be worthwhile somehow she even scans the recent posts, but of course there are no answers she would want. So that's what she's supposed to do, huh? Sit tight, make herself at home, and join in the hopeless little community of fellow prisoners? Lapis almost chucks the thing off the roof; she doesn't want Wonderland's garbage. And yet, here it is.

...Not that much of that matters to the audience. In text, after all, nobody can tell how much lid someone's flipping.]

I know it's too much to hope for, but you're absolutely sure this isn't some kind of personal nightmare I'm having?
It'd be a first considering I don't sleep, but the mirror thing is pretty suspect.
Your ocean is broken, by the way.

[She's sprawled out on the roof if you'd rather stumble upon her in person. Hopefully not literally.]

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[determinedest]

[They


They messed up anyway, didn't they? Now they've made someone mad. They're no good at fixing things; they're only ever any good at making sure they never were broken in the first place.

Should put the phone away, retreat. But Sans was right, in the end.

They never really did learn how to QUIT.]

Neither did you

[ssmisery]

I'm just like this.

[Awful things happen to her, she's miserable, then she makes other people miserable. That's how it is with her. On some level it is almost like even Wonderland is Lapis's fault just for being Lapis.]

[determinedest]

Like what

[Sounds like Chara. Sounds...a little too much like Chara, when they say they're just being like this, and no one likes them when they're like this.]

[ssmisery]

Someone bad things happen to. Someone who does bad things.
I was just talking about killing you!
I was just
finally starting to believe I really was done with being trapped
but i never am

[determinedest]

[...]

Do you want to?

[ssmisery]

NO!

[determinedest]

Then it's OK.

[It's...fine, really. Most everyone they know and love has hurt them, killed them, or made an attempt at some point. She's already a step above most of them, ha ha.]

You can't say you're someone who does bad things when you don't want to do them.

[ssmisery]

["I'd still enjoy it," Lapis almost writes. No wasn't precisely a lie, but it feels like one. She doesn't want to have to want things like that. At the very least, if hurting people would actually fix anything, wanting to do it would be simple. Would she hate herself less or more for it then?

She doesn't write that, anyway. She can't write that. This is all going heinously wrong; maybe it was good to vent it, but she can't keep going any further.]

You don't know that.
I need to stop talking.

[It takes some force of will to add that instead of just ceasing to reply, or possibly angrily continuing to reply despite meaning to cease. Truly Lapis has made great strides over these past months]

[determinedest]

OK.

[Don't press too hard. Know when someone tells you "no." You can't fix everything, shouldn't be trying to. Solve everyone's problems - until it gets to be unsustainable. Until it turns out bad for everyone. Then it's your fault when things go wrong.

Only it's your fault anyway, isn't it?]

Welcome to Wonderland I guess