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[blackbirdsing]

[ Sarah's lounging in bed, hair up in a ponytail, and she doesn't have much to say except: ]

Why are there no old people here? You know, like...I'm going to go out on a limb and say I definitely haven't seen anyone over 60. And I'm talking visually. Don't be a smart ass and tell me you're over 1,000, I get it, some of you are immortal or magic or...whatever. I'm just saying, no one appears to be over the age of, I don't know, post mid-life crisis.

I wonder why that would be? Wonderland has a youthful aesthetic to maintain? If you're over, say, 65 in human years, raise your hand.

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[blackbirdsing]

If guns ever go away for whatever reason, I'll be ready, I guess. Also, I don't know that I'd even feel better with a logical reason for why this place does anything the way it does. Maybe it's better to just. Let it go.

[catchacold]

Guns have been away before, so it's a good choice. Reason I always carry a knife these days. [He also carries both the cold gun and a regular gun, but those have both been proven useless before.]

Guess trying to make sense of it helps some people cope. Just dunno if there is much to it.

[blackbirdsing]

There probably isn't. But somehow it feels better than just sitting down and...accepting that we're here without ever questioning it.

[ That'd be weird, if people just did that, right? Who accepts being held captive (more or less) that easily? ]

[catchacold]

Yeah. You got a point.

Though not everyone here wants to leave. Don't think everyone here has something to get back to.

[He doesn't.]

Or they know they have something bad awaiting them.

[blackbirdsing]

Even if people don't want to leave, I think it's still hard to wrap your mind around what this place...is? What it does? Maybe that's just me coming from the world of soccer moms and hot yoga.

[ Not that she's ever done hot yoga, but it's normal and boring is her point. ]

This place is a...maybe 'culture shock' isn't the right phrase. But I think wanting to stay because it's better than home and having to take some time to catch your breath aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, you know?

[ Because God knows her brother is conflicted, she knows that. As if his life wasn't shitty enough, but that's a whole other conversation, probably to only be had with Kurt. ]

[catchacold]

...what's hot yoga? [He knows soccer moms, but hot and yoga, he's never come across that particular combination.]

Yeah, not saying it is. If I'd gotten any choice in where to go on holiday, a place like this wouldn't have been it.

[blackbirdsing]

It's literally doing yoga in a hot room that'll make you want to die. Or maybe that was just me.

[ Most forms of exercise make her want to die, but then add a hot and steaming room to it? No. Thanks. ]

[catchacold]

Sounds like something Mick would like.

Well. Maybe less doing yoga and more drinking a beer.

[Not really his style.]

I was in a steam room in Russia not that long ago. Fun times.

[blackbirdsing]

I could do a steam room. Hot yoga is just twenty-somethings with an excuse to wear the least amount of gym clothes possible.

[ She shrugs; when she was twenty she still wouldn't have done it considering she was busy being pregnant. And honestly, everyone knows it's just showing off. ]

I'd rather drink the beer, personally.

[catchacold]

I ain't the biggest fan of heat. I like cold.

[He's also somehow a fan of as many clothes as possible, which seems like a contradiction. Ah, well.]

Cold beer, yeah. We're on the same page.

[blackbirdsing]

Well, any time you want company with a cold beer, look me up. I could always go for one of those.

[catchacold]

I'll keep that in mind. Coldest beer you'll ever drink.