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[ - there's the low, distant wailing of the sirens. The feed bobs drunkenly, up and down, and there's the sound of someone retching off-screen; it weaves some more and the face of a very disoriented blond man comes into view. He looks shell-shocked; he doesn't realise that the journal he's writing on is recording. The pen trembles.]

What -

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[his cute little servant.

the only one who found him in the crumbling remains of Sablier - ]

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Gil -

[...brb throwing up off-screen.]

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Gil...bert.

[he's breathing hard, pained, even.]

Where - what are you doing here? Where's Oz?

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What happened? I'm - I'm not supposed to have a body - Gilbert, love, this isn't right, have the seals been broken?

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I - [breathe in, wheeze] - I think.

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[Jack isn't sitting, he's actually half-collapsed on the ground; he stares vacantly up at Gilbert - oh god, was that Raven? One of his five Chains - and tries to smile.

He ends up grimacing, instead.]

Gilbert? [he tries and miserably fails to sit up.] Gilbert, is that you?

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[Jack clings to his lapels and pulls him close, urgently.]

The seals, Gilbert - what happened?

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[Jack tells himself not to panic, but he still does, and he slumps into Gilbert's arms, fingers curling in his sleeves.]

How about Oz? Alice? Your brother, are they all right?

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I'm glad. [he smiles up at Gilbert, wryly, and Jack's hands tighten in Gilbert's coat as a wave of nausea rolls over him.]

Oh, good lord. Where are we?