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[bluebot]

[Blue has been sitting with the journal open on her lap for sometime now. It's a curious thing, and she'd be far more fascinated if it weren't for the fresh pain and almost-disorienting confusion. There is one logical explanation for all of this--]

U-um... excuse me? Is this-- can anyone... A-am I dead? [If she is dead, shouldn't she be here, too? And she wasn't expecting to keep her body. This is not how it should have happened.]

I'd really appreciate-- I just want to know what happened.

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[whistles_the_blues]

[And this robot's going to speak up in a flat tone.]

You're not dead, or even if you were, you're alive again so long as you're here.

You've been kidnapped by a magic castle. Get used to it.

[bluebot]

... [Hahaha, what? No, really, what?!] A magic castle. I'm sorry, is this a joke? Who are you?!

[whistles_the_blues]

You don't have to believe me, but you'll find most people around here will tell you the same thing.

As for my name, I go by Blues.

[littlebityeah]

Uh -- you're not dead. [ Probably not reassuring, but hey. ]

[bluebot]

Good. Because I don't. [Yes, hello, she is actually a five-year-old child.]

Are you-- ... you aren't the book. Right? You're speaking through it?

[bluebot]

How do you know for sure? [Because if she's not even sure, how the hell is this random guy supposed to know? Definitely not reassuring.]

[littlebityeah]

[ The PLAN was to make the comment and carry on, but hello, Newt, these are people you're talking to. ] Oh -- because this place being some kind of pocket dimension is a way more viable explanation than some wacky afterlife. I mean, for starters.

[whistles_the_blues]

Fine by me. [Well he's only about four years old with the mentality of an immature teenager. So they're even.]

I'm speaking through it. The book doesn't talk on it's own.

[bluebot]

So... the book is magic, too? Not that I'm accepting your explanation just yet. Just-- if it were a magic... castle. This is ridiculous.

[bluebot]

You'd rather believe in alternate dimensions than existence beyond life? [Her eyes narrow briefly, but her voice remains relatively soft.] No faith. You must be a scientist.

[whistles_the_blues]

Unless you can find a radio transmitter somewhere on it, then yeah, I'd say it's magic too.

You'll get used to it, or maybe you won't, I don't know you so I can't for sure.

[littlebityeah]

[ Oh no, oh no, don't be a weird cultist or something. ] Well -- yeah. I mean, one does have... proof...

[bluebot]

And you just accept this? Hasn't anyone tried to run? ... Why did it take me?

[right, she should maybe introduce herself.] I'm Blue. I hope this doesn't get confusing-- not that I plan on staying!

[bluebot]

Proof? What proof? How-- listen, I don't have time for this. If I'm not dead, I really have to get home. it's important. will you help me?

[hellofist]

[It looks like the whole magic castle/kidnapping angle has been covered, so...]

Why would... you think you died?

[whistles_the_blues]

Running isn't exactly an option, seeing as taken us to it's own little dimension. A rather vast world apparently but after you get a few days past the castle, any sort of electronics or powers that people have cease to work. So leaving the castle isn't exactly a viable option for a machine like myself.

As for why; hard to say. It tends to grab people who have some sort of significance in the world they came from. It apparently feeds on the emotions of people, so you're essentially food to this place.

...It shouldn't get confusing for me, other people may have a problem with it.

[bluebot]

... Oh. [she wasn't prepared for that question so soon. It takes her a second to remember.] Because there were people chasing us. With guns. We were trying to leave the city... where the power stops. We were supposed to die, but then... something happened to Red and thenn I was here.

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[onlyanapple]

That's a difficult question. Did you die before you came here? If you didn't, then the answer would be no. But if you did, the answer would be a more complicated and annoying yes-no.

[scaler]

Depends on how lucky you are.

[bluebot]

[Just like Battery City. No power in the desert. She's not sure she likes the idea of being food for a magic castle, but something he says gets her attention above all the rest.]

Y-you're a machine, too? A droid like me?

[bluebot]

I'm not... entirely sure. I might have. I was supposed to.

The fact that I'm not exactly alive in the regular sense might complicate it even more.

[bluebot]

I've never been very lucky. [Except for Red. That was luck in the purest sense.] I don't seem to be dead, though.

[onlyanapple]

Ah well. Lots of people don't do the things they're supposed to.

Oh? Some sort of spirit, perhaps? A robot? I've seen them all at this point.

[Dictated]

[cant_breathe_no_heir]

You are not dead.

Though sometimes I wonder how much that would do.

[littlebityeah]

Um -- I'm still trying to figure that one out for myself, actually. The going home part, I mean, which is supposedly impossible.