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[maddest]

[Like so many others will this week, Break wakes up screaming. The PCD isn't pointed at the bed, so it doesn't capture anything but sound until he scrambles off of it, past the camera and towards the window, throwing it open to get fresh air.

This all hits a little close to home.]

Why-

[He asks, hoarsely, a few minutes later,]

-does the network insist on displaying our grief? The timing is too consistent to be accidental.

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[al_truism]

You don't say much.

[Softly.]

... the things that happen here apparently have a parallel in the... that place.

But for a time, you were in there with me.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine I was comforting.

[al_truism]

... in the time when you disappeared from here, then reappeared without memories of me-

You'd been lobotomized. Or something like. I don't know.

[He leans back in his chair.]

... but I'm curious to see how this will parallel.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the blessed lobotomy. Modern marvel.

[al_truism]

... do you think we're mad, Break?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Unquestionably. The only remaining thing to be decided is whether we're flying up, or floating down.

[al_truism]

And how would we fly up?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Drifting towards one world, or the other.

Right now we're in neither, and we're in both. It could go either way.

[al_truism]

...

If that's reality, I'd rather be mad.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I told you, one way or another-

What's that garbled story about the dead cat?

[al_truism]

A... dead cat?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

It's this theoretical thing about a cat in a box, it's either dead or alive, so it's both- we're here and there, until the box opens and we can check.

[al_truism]

[He frowns, silent, but then makes a low humming sound of assent.]

... it would be nice if we could choose.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it?

[al_truism]

If wishes were horses...

[Smiling, as he says it. It comes through in his voice.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I've had a wish or two granted, in my time.

[al_truism]

They don't ever turn out how you'd think.

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

No, they don't.

[al_truism]

... do you remember anything about me?

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I do.

[al_truism]

[Breathless silence.]

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I think-

I owe you an apology.

[al_truism]

You don't-

[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I do.

[al_truism]

... I pushed you. I shouldn't have.