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[no_sanity_clause]

"Ever have someone really surprise you?" This brightly dressed person just grins as they lean against the Sign and look around to see if anyone's here today.

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[no_sanity_clause]

"I thought we were just talking about 'mostly sure they're people', because none of Selina's cats have tried talking to me," Jokester replies. "Though given some of the others, I wouldn't be that surprised if they did."

"Um, we don't have dead people hanging around, because they're dead," Duela points out. "It's just that there's a lot of difference between dead and still-in-the-timesoup."

"Fourty-eight," Stephie updates in between bites of her glowing vanilla-and-orange treat.

Duela nods. "Because Wonderland is kind of like a dream place, even if she might have gone there while awake sometimes, am I right? Yeah, they be kind of like that. Or maybe like that and like non-evil Freddy Krueger, because they aren't just in one person's dreams."

[museicalmarty]

"Fair enough," Marty says with a nod. "Bet if you tried counting all the animals -- well, us organics would be here for a while," he says, with a glance at Erdammeru. "Dunno about him."

Marty tilts his head. "Hang on -- okay, I can get that being the timesoup and being dead are two different things. But you just said they were in some foggy area. Where's that then, if it's not part of the island? Separate, uh, 'waiting room' for the ghosts?" He's doing his best to wrap his mind around this.

"Sort of?" Marty answers Duela's question. "Here's the weird thing about Alice and Wonderland -- she first got to the Nexus through Wonderland. But the reason she was in Wonderland was because she was fighting through it to kill the Queen of Hearts so she could get her sanity back. Cause she was catatonic in an asylum at the time. So she was kind of going to Wonderland in her head. . .but she could also show up in the Nexus? And when she woke up in Rutledge, she could get to the Nexus from there -- or, well, from London, she ended up living with her aunt and uncle for a while. . .and then she figured out a way to get to Wonderland through mirrors? That was how she got Victor there. . ." He shakes his head. "I dunno -- I barely understand it, and I get the feeling Alice doesn't really either."

He chuckles. "Non-evil Krueger living in dreams. Okay, that I get."