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[ HELLO WONDERLAND it's your favorite grumpy murder grandpa. What's up.

Joel had been truly shaken when he'd found Ellie alone in the woods, hiding away from the world and with a broken arm she'd been too scared to even go and get treated properly. When she'd finally told him an abbreviated version of what had happened, he'd gone from feeling shaken to feeling sick.

He'd done his own research first, to no avail. At a loss and unable to make further progress on his own, he's finally caved to his last resort - asking the other residents for help. ]

How d'ya kill your mirror.

[ And don't tell him it's not possible. ]

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[Well that definitely had Seth's attention. Mostly because he's considered it himself.]

Best way I've thought of would be to get someone to help you with it. Get them to trade somehow with their mirror, go over and kill them and then you show their mirror their own image and whoever helped you is back.

In theory it should work. If the queen or other mirrors don't take them out before you bring them back.

That all you have t'do to send it back? Show it its own image?

[ He'd even read Evie's pamphlet this time!! But there hadn't been much information on Mirrors. ]

That's what I've been told. Haven't played at it yet, though I've considered setting up a mirror opposite the one in my bathroom. Can't hurt, right?

Wouldn't put it past this place if it made things worse somehow.

[ Just saying. :| ]

S'pose it's worth a shot, though.

Breathing in Wonderland can make shit worse, that's the problem. I think it depends on your mirror and how they act. People I know on the other side send messages. It gets old quick.

Send messages?

[ It takes him a moment to understand. ]

What, across the mirrors?

My brother's mirror, and sometimes I think my own, they write them on the mirror, backwards, so they read right on this side.

I've heard others do it as well. Cheerful, isn't it?

Yeah, real cute.

[ The first thing he'd done after finding out what had happened to Ellie - apart from taking her to get her arm fixed up, that is - had been to remove or cover up every single mirror in both of their rooms. Now he's glad. The prospect of personal messages sent from his Mirror waiting for him every time he goes to take a piss is not an appealing one. ]

...That the only way they can communicate with us? Writin' on the mirrors?

Only way my family has. Until this thing about skipping from one side to the other.

[And he hates it. All of it. He knows what he is on the other side, that decision he hasn't made - says he won't make - and his mirror self what? Started that way or chose it? Either way sucks in his mind.]

From what I get, the Queen over there isn't thrilled about people being over here, so maybe she'll keep it from happening again. I wouldn't count on it though.

[ Joel laughs, hollow and humorless. ]

I ain't countin' on her for anything.

[ Or anyone else on the other side of the Mirror. ]

So yeah, without counting on her, you're left with few options. Problem is we seem to switch places so you can't ever be on the same side, so you'd have to get someone else to actually do the killing for.

Seems like it.

[ He sighs, discouraged. There go all those satisfying dreams of wrapping his hands around his own Mirror's throat and squeezing. ]

Don't much like the sound of that.

Yeah, I wouldn't like it much either. Hope someone else has a better answer for you.

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