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[Winter was now over and spring had just started. Minato kind of missed the snow, but at least the weather was cool and comfortable instead of being too cold. For a change of pace as he wandered outside, now that the space event was over, he decided to head to the Checkerboard Hills. He hadn't been there often. It was time to check it out again.

That is, if checking it out meant doing a once-over on the checkered patterns from dark to light, then ending up laying in one of the darker square patches, his comm device off to the side as he looked up at the sky.

It's spring here and spring at home. School would be starting again, if he were there and time progressed.

Were these questions even fair? Did he have too much time on his hands, playing around with or thinking about 'what if' in a place that may make him forget his existence here at all?]

..... Would you rather be dead at home or alive here?

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[Dorian pauses to consider that. Would it have scared him?]

... No, actually. I think I would be grateful I found myself here if I died in my world.

[Wonderland's Hell is far kinder than the one he would probably face in the afterlife as he atones for all his sins.]

[Somehow that seems to be the case for a lot of people. How did Wonderland end up to be the better alternative? Well, better than being dead, he could give it that, but still.]

What's your world like though?

[Is that something he can ask? Details like that, he was a bit hesitant to ask for. That was getting personal and some people were very private.]

[Dorian chuckles. He'd be happy to answer that.]

Oh, just good ol' England in the late 1800's, when Victoria was our queen. There's nothing wrong with that, I think.

[Says the high class aristocrat. Had he not been born into wealth and status, he might have had a different opinion of the era.]

However, Wonderland offers new opportunities and experiences you just can't find in my world, and I'm afraid it looks more dull the more I stay here.

[Late 1800s England? That was... a while ago. Nothing wrong at all. Minato knew there were people from centuries before that too here. Wonderland didn't discriminate.]

Dull? Is it that uneventful there?

[Minato thought that England at that time had to be kind of exciting though. Technological, medical, political, economic advances and all of that.]

No, not before you're exposed to all of this!

[He motions at everything. In Wonderland, nobody cares if you spend the night drinking or getting high off opiates. You won't get arrested if you start flirting with other men! And that's not even scratching the surface!]

What's been the most exciting thing about this place?

[Maybe Minato had been taking all of it for granted since he was used to some of it or he had been more familiar with it than others from a more distant past would be.
All of it was exciting and interesting, but was there something in particular that was his favorite?]

Besides the normally horrid events?

[Dorian could do without the events that make everyone's lives a living Hell, thank you.]

Well, you get introduced to new people you might not ever meet in your own world! Think about your new friends here. How many of them would have been sorely out of place in your world?

[That was true too. He did like all of his friends here and was glad to have met all of them.]

Would you go live in someone else's world if you could?

[Would he do something like that? Some of these people come from horrible places, if the events are to be believed...]

[Actually...]

Don't we already sort of live in other people's worlds every other month?

[Minato nodded. That was true, he had to give him that. Minato had meant more permanently though.]

Mn, but if you could pick any world to go from here, would you go home or somewhere else?

[There were some people here who would ditch their home worlds in a heartbeat. But where would they go?]

[Good question. His home felt a lot emptier after he took poor Basil out of it. Henry was still there, but so was James and Parlimentary laws and ettiquite and all that nonsense.]

[Yet, he wasn't too sure where else to go. From what he has seen and heard, some of the other worlds are nice, but he doesn't know if he'd be comfortable living there...]

... I apologize, but I simply don't know where I'd rather be!

That's okay. It's too bad you can't world hop if you don't like a particular place.

[That would be nice. Visit one world for a bit, see some friends, go to another world, then go back home, something like that. Once he left here, how would he be able to see the people he met here, if he ever remembered them?]

Oh, I'm Minato. And you?

It is, isn't it?

[Memory... That was a problem. On the other hand, he wouldn't miss anything if he couldn't remember it.]

Oh! Where are my manners? I am Dorian, pleasure to meet you.

Nice to meet you too.

[A lot of people in Wonderland were nice. It was nice then that he could meet so many people from different worlds.]

I've never been to England. What do you like about it?

[Dorian is glad to have yet another acquaintance fooled by his charm.]

You haven't? That's a shame, indeed. You would have loved to see the operas and balls!

[Dorian, your high class is showing.]

Why, where are you from?

Japan. I didn't have a lot of time to travel.

[Or money. That's the drawback of being a normal teenager.]

... How's the food?

[Because that's a very important question too.]

Ah, that's a shame.

[Thankfully, Wonderland comes with a wonderful travel itinerary that brings the vacation to you!]

As long as you can avoid the street vendors and dingy pubs, enjoyable enough.

[Again, showing upper class bias.]

[He hadn't heard much about the food, so he had been curious.]

It sounds nice. It's probably made a lot of changes since then.

... Possibly, for you.

[Thanks for reminding him how old he is in relation to you. Time travel sucks.]

Have you read about it or has anyone told you?

[Someone else here had to be from England too. They'd have more insight as to what it was like now.]

No, and I think I ought to ask around.

Maybe the library will help too?

Perhaps! We can go look around there for a bit.

Did you want to go together?

Perhaps. You are more than welcome to join me.

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