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[When the video turns on, there's Riley, and she's holding up what looks to be at least a few sheets of posterboard. On the very front is a drawing of a smiling planet that looks like it's holding a heart.]

Ooookay, so it's come to my attention that there are a lot of people here that don't know about Pluto, the last planet in Earth's solar system. I'm going to change that. First things first! This is what Pluto looks like. We got pictures back recently and it looked like it had a huge heart on it. [And she'd totally called it before the pictures even got recieved too, having always said Pluto had a lot of heart.]

I couldn't get the actual picture so I asked Maya to draw it.

[And she drops that top piece of posterboard, revealing something that looks like a bulleted list???]

The first important thing is that Pluto used to be a planet. Eventually a bunch of scientists decided it was too small to be an actual planet though, so they called it a dwarf planet instead. From the time it was discovered to when it got demoted to a dwarf planet, it didn't even have a chance to go all the way around the sun! Because it's that far away from us! That's pretty unfair, since Pluto never really got a chance.

[She huffs.]

That's why I still call it a planet, though. I'm always gonna believe that it's a planet, even if everything says it can't be. We don't know what it could do or anything about it because it's so far away. I just wanted to make sure that everyone here knew that.

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And how do you access all of this? It sounds positively amazing. I was impressed when we started getting telephones everywhere.

We use... these machines called computers. We can use our phones for it too, since our phones are like little computers now too! Technology's pretty cool, isn't it? I'm from 2016, sooo this is like a century later almost for you!

I wonder if they have any around here. Even if they are cut off from the outside world like so much of this place seems to be, I think it would be a definite learning experience.

I have to tell you, though I'm sure you know, life has certainly changed. Even how people speak and dress. So much more than I would have imagined.

I bet we could ask the closets. They have nearly anything we need or want, so why can't they give us a computer?

It seems almost impossible that we've come so far, but at the same time, it's not. Technology getting better sort of feeds on itself and progress just gets faster and faster.

Do the closest really just provide anything? I know everyone says that, but then that just seems very easy, and a little scary given who might run them.

[Coming from the guy with a wand and who does magic.]

I'm trying to quickly adjust. I think it will do me best here if I don't find myself mired in my own century.

I don't know the limits, but there's a guy that got a motorcycle stuck in his room and I got bunnies out of it.

You'll be okay here, though. And if you have any questions, you can just ask me!

My first week here I encountered a man with a bear. Well, being chased by one. I think that was the first I heard of the closets, so that could well be part of my uncertainty with them.

[While he would love to try and get Puckett from one of them, or any of his creatures, he feared what he might actually get instead.]

You too kind... I'm Newt, by the way.

... Did he get a bear out of the closet.

[Because honestly while that's cool there's also an element of Concern there.]

And I'm Riley. Nice to meet you!

I think so. He said something about a closet, but then none of that made sense. I guess he was trying for a dog and instead... bear.

I tried to help him contain it and then haven't seen it since, so I suppose they found something to do with it. Can things be sent back through the closets?

I don't know. I haven't tried, since there are so many rooms I can just store things wherever I need to.

And not knowing what someone may need when Wonderland turns on us, I can where that's beneficial. Thank you for the idea.

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