First Cycle: [Video/Action] This isn't JFK

[nowput_itback]

Wait a minute…you’ve dropped me-

[Schuyler’s words stop abruptly when she sees the taxi she just stepped out of isn’t there. She’s not at the airport either and Oliver…]

Oliver?

Ollie?

[The second exclamation is a bit panicked. She whirls back around, entire body tense and on the defense. At least she can see this time]

Jack!

[She’s not

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[hurricanebomber]

I'm pretty sure there's no one named Jack here. But I don't know everyone.

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[nowput_itback]

Of course there's not but he will come get me once he realizes I've been kidnapped.

Is Oliver okay? Or is being held somewhere too?

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[hurricanebomber]

Unfortunately, he won't be able to follow you here. Not on purpose anyway.

There's no one named Oliver, either.

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[nowput_itback]

I wouldn't count on that. If I were you, I'd let me go. The last time I was kidnapped everyone who took me ended up dead.

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[hurricanebomber]

We didn't kidnap you. Believe it or not, you're in a different world from the one you came from. It's called Wonderland. Once you're here, you can't leave by choice.

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[nowput_itback]

...

Why? I mean, why am I here? One minute I'm supposed to be meeting my best friend at the airport so we can go to Paris and now I'm...in Wonderland? Like Alice? There was no rabbit hole. Not even a mirror.

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[hurricanebomber]

This place feeds off of peoples' memories. It brings people here and keeps them for that reason.

So you might as well get comfortable.

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[nowput_itback]

[Sky puts her fingertips to her brow and takes a deep breath. She looks back up at the screen, frayed and stressed looking. As if the last few weeks haven't been stressful enough]

You don't understand. There are things I have to do. People are depending on me. My mother just woke up and she's depending on me.

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[hurricanebomber]

Everyone here has reasons they need to go back. That doesn't change the situation.

[His glance flickers away from the screen, then back to it, and he sighs around his cigarette.]

If it's any consolation, I'm pretty sure time doesn't pass at home while we're here. So when you do get to go back, it'll be to whatever point you left from.

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[nowput_itback]

[She's still pretty sure she's been kidnapped by silver bloods again and this all some giant ruse in which Jack is going to charge in sword blazing and save her from]

That is some consolation.

Alright. I'm stuck here.

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What do we do here? The house is...huge so finding a room isn't a problem I assume.

[She sets the carry on bag she'd managed to pull out of the taxi down and crouches next to it, head buried in her hands]

This is just--

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[hurricanebomber]

We just live here. There's not a whole lot to do other than that.

[He grimaces as she crouches down.] Don't get upset.

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[nowput_itback]

It's not--[Okay it is. She is getting upset but she's dealing. She stands up abruptly and grabs her bag with a swipe at her eyes.] I'm fine. I'll go find a room.

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[hurricanebomber]

If you need anything, you can get it from your closet.

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[nowput_itback]

...The closets are already stocked?

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[hurricanebomber]

More like they respond to your desires and produce the objects you want on demand.

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[nowput_itback]

...okay...that's really cool.

I could have used that a few times back in New York City.