❧score one ✿ video

[beyourwarmth]

[ the camera turns on to show the ceiling of a room and the voice of a young boy going ‘ow’ from off-sight. Few seconds later, the camera changes view to show a close-up of a curious looking face of a young boy with white hair and red eyes. Few moments pass as the boy inspects the device with a confused face. ]Why is it blinking red at the top?

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[hurricanebomber]

[Aaaah don't cryyyyy.]

It isn't hide-and-seek. This is Wonderland.

[beyourwarmth]

[ woaaaaaah people in the screeeen!! he's seen things like this in the Circus! the wibbles stop at the moment ]

I-Is this like a 'video camera'? Are you a Circus member too, mister?

......What's 'Wonderland'?

[hurricanebomber]

[Oh thank god, Gokudera can't handle crying things.]

I'm not in any circus. This think broadcasts to the whole network, so anyone looking at it can see you.

Wonderland is the name of this place. Where ever you came from, this is another world.

[beyourwarmth]

A-Are you the police? Or um 'Kafka'?
[ immediately looks worried. non-Circus members noooo ]

...........? [ does not understand this concept of 'another world'. what is this thing you speak of ]

[hurricanebomber]

No. I have no idea what that even means.

My name's Gokudera.

[beyourwarmth]

Then you're a normal person!

My name is Nai!

I need to go back to the Circus First Ship. Can you tell me how to get there, Gokudera-san?

[hurricanebomber]

Yeah, more or less.

You can't go back. You're stuck here like everyone else.

[beyourwarmth]

[ eyes instantly well up with tears once more. BUT BUT GAREKI TOLD HIM THAT NAI WAS A BOY AND HE SHOULD NOT CRY SO HE WILL HOLD IT IN. ...try to at least ]

I-I can't go back.....?

[ look at this forlorn face. doesn't it break your heart? ]

[hurricanebomber]

[aaaaah no crying B|]

No. Not anytime soon, anyway.

[beyourwarmth]

But but I need to wait for Tsukumo-chan to come back and I need to find Karoku!

[hurricanebomber]

It'll have to wait.

How old are you?

[beyourwarmth]

but Gareki said looking for Karoku was my 'top priority' and that I should only think about that...

....? [ Nai tilts his head ] I don't know.

[hurricanebomber]

There's nothing you can do about it here. We're all stuck.

...You...don't know how old you are?

[beyourwarmth]

[ wibble wibble ] I-Is nobody from the Circus here...?

...How old you are is how much time passed from when you were born right? Karoku never told me that.

[hurricanebomber]

...Probably not from the circus you mean.

You can't take a guess?

[beyourwarmth]

...? The Circus. Did I say something different...?

Um... ummm.... ..... [ thinks for a while and then shakes his head ]