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[ When Sarah comes into view, she's sitting with her elbows on a table, fingers steepled, and she actually looks Very Serious™ while contemplating how best to phrase her question. The conversation has come up privately, and she needs to have a full understanding of one of the parts of Wonderland she's never bothered with - the Vendors. ]

Hey. I know everyone's kind of consumed with what the dormouse had to say or...didn't say. But I really want to see where everyone falls regarding opinions on the Vendors.

Since we can't pick the memory they want, that means somehow they can rifle through our minds to pick the thing they want to take. And it'd probably have to be something meaningful or impactful. If I ever, for whatever reason, had no option but to use the Vendors, I could lose something like the birth of my son. I'd have no choice or say in the matter.

[ Her reason for using the Vendors would have to be extraordinary. Something involving Kurt or Ray and dire circumstances. ]

Anyway, my actual question is...how do we know, if the Vendors can access our minds and memories, that they or someone or something else doesn't do that all the time, on a constant basis? If Wonderland does actually use our memories to fuel the things that happen here, does that mean our brains are constantly being...I don't know. Monitored???

I'd really like some opinions on this.

[ Sarah isn't paranoid at all usually, and she'd say this is more concerned than paranoid, but it feels like such a violation of privacy that she can't help asking the community at large. ]

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A good question to ask might be, for people who have been here for a long period of time, has an event ever repeated itself from their home, or have they gone through more than one that's familiar? Because maybe we have to have...a certain type of memory or life for Wonderland to pull us in.

[ Just to agree with this second point, there. ]

I wonder if that higher up is the Queen of Hearts, or if it goes even higher than that.

I've asked about the repeats from a few people. No one knows of any truly repeated though there's things that overlap. Like zombies. More than one world has them, and several of them have been here. What I was told though they weren't exactly the same.

But that may be it. The type of memory, or maybe it's the trauma of the memories. Not much they seem to pull from people is good from the way the events go.

That's the million dollar question, isn't it? Who is truly behind this all.

Maybe this place is just someone's attempt at creating a world that went really damn sideways. And it still functions because somehow we get pulled in and fuel it.

That makes about as much sense as anything else I've heard. Though the idea that there's just people that can literally create worlds and just abandon them isn't all that comforting.

Well, I mean, you could insert any deity you wanted into that spot, right? Zeus messed up, or your run of the mill God figure, or whatever else. Something out there took a shot at creating life and really fucked up.

Yeah well, I've had a lot of reason not to much believe in gods. Any of them.

Technically they didn't create life though if this is a god. They're stealing lives others made.

Okay, true. But something made this place. And something made the queen, the mirror clones. I know the default answer to everything is 'magic did it' but magic...comes from something. Somewhere. A source.

[ Whether it's gifted by a God, or an artifact or you come from a line of people born with magic, there's a reason for it. Usually. ]

I honestly don't even know what I'd hope to find out if I could get real answers.

Sure, but not sure I call them a god. That may be my issues with people just going around calling themselves gods, no matter how old they are or what shit they can do.

[There's is a TINY bit of bitterness there. Deal with snakegod vampires had definitely caused an opinion there.]

The source only matters if there's access. Most of them don't have access. As for magic or not, not sure it matters since the magic workers can't do shit about this. I've seen enough of them try. The science geeks did worse.

[He rolls his eyes at that.]

Definitely don't want a repeat of that.

Likely you'd be looking to find the same thing most are. A way back to the life you left. Not everyone's looking for it but enough are. Or at least why.

Not that it's any of my business, and I'm far away from anything resembling religious, but I'm curious. What does count for a God in your opinion?

[ These are the kind of conversations she finds fascinating and it's actually distracted her from her previous worries. ]

[That really caught Seth off guard, though he guesses given his vehemence about gods, that he should have expected it.]

I get where you're going. What's the difference between a god and what the assholes behind this place do?

Most of it is me not wanting to call them gods. You ever dealt with people that deemed themselves gods and lived like it? Before Wonderland? You just want to bring them down a peg, even if its in petty ways and not giving them that satisfaction of calling them that.

Oh, I get it. I definitely get it.

[ Jane's mother, honestly. ]

Makes sense enough to me. I'll just be real bummed if it's Joe Blow pulling all the strings and managed tot rap us all here. I think I just...want it to be something big. Something important? Not that it'll matter when I leave here, anyway.

[ If she leaves??? ]

[After the Culebra and all their bullshit, he wasn't acknowledge anyone as a god. Fuck that.]

It has to be something big, no matter what. There's magic workers here. Demons. Vampires. A whole lot of powerful shit and they're stuck. [Like Satan!] So whoever or whatever it is, they're big. Least you have that.

Hey, there's a good talking point if there's ever a chance to remember interesting facts outside of this place.

[ Sarah smiles a little, nodding at him. ]

Thanks. For the conversation. It was nice and distracting.

Conversations here tend to be. The name's Seth if you ever want to discuss more of the insanity that is Wonderland.

Nice to meet you, Seth. I'm Sarah. And I'm sure more of Wonderland's shit will be up for discussion soon. Until then.

[ She smiles and gives him a wave. ]

Talk to you later.