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[uncurse]

I hear you're putting together an after-action report.

[darkart]

Yes. Would you like to contribute?

[ Emma is, of course, on the list to be bothered about it. But it's a long list full of confusing responses. ]

[uncurse]

I've started to remember things.

A white room.

[darkart]

That's consistent with what a few others have come forward with. And Shepard's transmission.

What happens in your memory, exactly?

[uncurse]

I don't remember.

My son was in that last room, but it wasn't really him. He brought me through the door, and.

I can't remember what was inside.

[darkart]

[ Her son. At least he doesn't have to ask what made her think that was a good idea. ]

What's the next thing you remember?

[uncurse]

Regina and Gold. Except they didn't look like themselves, it was like their faces were ...

Have you ever seen a Barbie with the paint washed off?

[darkart]

I don't know what a Barbie is. But I did see facial distortion on others when I was down there.

[uncurse]

Not to derail this little interview, but how do you not know what a Barbie is?

[darkart]

What is it?

[uncurse]

It's like a kid's doll.

[darkart]

Mass produced, I assume? I live in a society that's isolated from the rest of the world and not very concerned with pop culture from the outside.

[uncurse]

You're Amish?

[darkart]

Witches and wizards live apart from non-magic users.

[uncurse]

Oh.

So you don't even live in the same places as the rest of the world? How much more world is there to hide in?

[darkart]

Places, yes, some. But we mind our own business. I teach at a school for witchcraft in northern Scotland, which is not crowded. I imagine I have students who live in Glasgow or London who might be more aware of the outside.

[uncurse]

I feel like it's damn near impossible to live in a major city and not know what a Barbie doll is.

[darkart]

I've seen The Wizard of Oz and Sleeping Beauty.

[ That's his muggle pop culture knowledge. Old American films that had cinema re-releases in the 1970s whose subject matter was interesting to wizardkind. ]

[uncurse]

Wait, in person? He's real too?

[darkart]

I believe the point of the film is that he wasn't real.

[uncurse]

Seen as in the movies not as in the real people. Gotcha.

She was here for a while. I just thought maybe, since you call magic-users wizards where you're from, maybe ... I don't know.

[darkart]

I'm not opposed to the notion of them also being real people. Merlin's real.

Do you want to talk about reconnaissance?

[uncurse]

Preferably.

Regina and Gold were there, but I didn't immediately recognize them. They shook me out of some trance, and torched whatever was pretending to be my kid.

Couldn't get me to listen to a word they said until he was gone.

[darkart]

I found Colbert, then Tsang. They were in the same trance-like state. Seems it happened to all of you.

[uncurse]

I had a feeling.

On our way out, we ran into Hook. Same thing: he looked right through me.