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[papermagic]

jdiweks[oh there's the video button]--onder what this thing is?

[There's a new face staring at the screen, turning the device this way and that in an attempt to figure out how it works.]

Hmmm I bet Fourth would know. But where'd he go....[A frown as he looks around in search of this fourth person, left, right--and suddenly someone tottering behind him, carrying a dangerously large pile of shopping bags, trips and drops the whole pile on his head.

Viewers can catch a couple shocked voices and the sight of the poor kid getting knocked over before the screen gets totally covered up in the avalanche.]

Comments

[misfortunes]

It's all right to look, isn't it? Only, in time, you'll have to stop.

[papermagic]

But then, what happens when I stop?

[misfortunes]

I suppose you lose the opportunity to find them.

[papermagic]

Well, then I should keep looking.

[a pause.]

Do you know where the train station is?

[misfortunes]

I do! Ah, but is it still important if it doesn't lead out. . .?

[papermagic]

......It doesn't?

[misfortunes]

It's a rather complicated place, I'm afraid.

[papermagic]

But how do I get back then?

[misfortunes]

Do you know. . . ? I'd never considered it!

[papermagic]

You haven't? But--but there's people to go back to! And friends and...things!

[misfortunes]

Has no one explained, then?

[papermagic]

Explained...?

1/2

[misfortunes]

Well.

[ priority: is Vincent bored enough for this.





. . . he is out of dolls. ]

[misfortunes]

Would you like to hear a story?

[papermagic]

[nodnodnod. stories are great, except when they're scary!

...this isn't gonna be a scary story is it]

[misfortunes]

You'll have to come here, then.

[papermagic]

[..........]

Where?

[misfortunes]

Can you see a fountain from where you are?

[papermagic]

Oh, yes, it's right over there.

[misfortunes]

Run past it, then, until you find the gardens. Can you do that?

[papermagic]

I can do that! I'll run as fast as I can. [and trip and fall along the way...]