♞ 001 || The Prodigal Knight appears...

[onlymortal]

|| Accidental Video ||

[ The video clicks on as a tall, lanky man in a knee length red peacoat and a black beanie stalks into view, his hands shoved into his pockets, his shoulders hunched, eyes toward the floor. He takes about two steps down the hallway in question before he stops and turns, looking back over his shoulder, then looking back forward, his brow furrowing in confusion. ]

What is this shit?

[ He looks off down the hall both directions, looking more and more confused. ]

Fuckin' weird dream, that's for sure. [ He takes one last look left, then right, and finally chooses right, turning and starting off in that direction, apparently intent on finding the end of the hall...if there is one. ]

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

Wonderland, huh? [He eyes one of the doors.] So, clowns and balloons behind door number one?

[He's on the 3rd floor, and probably not far from Minato's room at this point.]

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

More like mirrors and alternate versions of ourselves.

[No matter how many times he said it, it still sounded absurd. There would be more to explain too. Luckily for Minato, his friends had a way of appearing within close range. As soon as he exited his room and glanced down the hallway, he saw his older teammate, and headed in that direction to see him.]

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[Well, now that he knows Minato's on drugs or something, he turns at the sound of footsteps behind him and gives a nod of greeting.]

You mind makin' sense this time?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He wouldn't be too far off with his guess since Minato's been taking pain pills. But yes, still sane here. As relatively sane as possible as one could be in Wonderland.]

This is another world. Or dimension. No one arrives or leaves voluntarily.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[Minato's never been one to lie or make shit up, so he just runs a hand over his face.]

Shit...

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[His sentiments exactly. Minato gave Shinjiro a few moments to collect his thoughts. Why Wonderland had to do this to any of his friends, he didn't know.]

... Akihiko-senpai is here too.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

Aki's here? [Well, that changes things.]

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He nodded.]

He arrived yesterday. But that's all of us from home.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He nods in understanding.] Any idea why?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[He shook his head.]

Why us or anyone in particular, I don't know.

But the Mansion feeds off of our memories.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[That got his attention.] What do you mean?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

The Mansion is supposedly sentient. In order to live, it takes away our memories.

These memories are then projected onto the whole of the Mansion as events.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He stopped walking and turned to the younger man.]

...what?!

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Minato stopped walking as well.]

I can't explain how. But it's something we're up against. Every so often we live through someone else's memories. [Or our own. But Minato really didn't want to consider that.] These are events.

The other thing is the mirrors.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He couldn't even decide of that was a good thing or not.]

......mirrors?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Minato indicated toward the closest mirror in the hallway.]

Another world exists on the mirror side. That is where alternate versions of ourselves live.

Normally we can't see or hear them. But they can see and hear everything we do.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He glared at the mirror for a moment.]

That's some creepy shit, Arisato.

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Pretty much. Minato glanced over at the mirror. Seeing another version of himself had been beyond surreal.]

I know.

[He turned back to the older SEES member now. There might've been something else that needed explaining. With Akihiko, it had been easier to guess. But Shinjiro's case was different.]

... What day is it back home?

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[That was a weird question.]

October 3rd. Why?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[Minato nodded once as he pieced together the timeline. He only had a day to consider how much he had to tell Akihiko and when, and now Shinjiro had been even further back in time. Minato still hadn't come to a decision as to how to approach the subject, though he knew that he might have to tell them eventually.

It... wouldn't change the past at home, would it? But time stopped, and people had forgotten Wonderland when they returned home, so it would most likely not. Would it then make a difference if they knew while they were here? They had the right to know since it was their lives though. Whether they wanted to hear it might be another issue...]

Wonderland has the ability to bring people in from different times. Akihiko-senpai's from about two days after you.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He narrowed his eyes. That was new, and he wasn't really sure what to do with the information.]

Two days, huh? What about you?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[The question was inevitable. Minato didn't have any intention to hold back information, but it was only a matter of when to give that information at the most appropriate time. Just appearing in another world was already hard enough to deal with, let alone having to deal with how that new world decided to destroy what seemed logical.]

... Several months ahead of both of you.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He blinked at the underclassman before deciding he did want the spoiler.]

Did we win?

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[jivitadana.livejournal.com]

[For a second, there might've been a hint of a smile on his face.]

... Yes. We did.

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[castoredux.livejournal.com]

[He nods. That's good enough. Nobody needs to know the future anyway.]

Damn straight.