paradisa | 24 (forward dated slightly)

[In the early morning hours of Sunday, there are some smudged words appearing in the journals, written in blue ink and a sloppy hand. For once, he's heeding the possibility that most of the castle residents are likely still sleeping--and he's trying to be quiet.]

It's November 11.

I've been here for a year today.

[He pauses, considering how far he's come in that past year, contemplating what he does and doesn't want to list out for the whole castle to see. In the end, he settles on a very brief little written list, more for the benefit of his own memory than anything else.]

In November, I got here.
In December, I kissed Maya Fey and Geoffrey Chaucer, and I went to Paris.
January brought Miles.
In February, I gained my voice back again.
March saw some really amazing birthday gifts.
In April, Sunflower found me.
In May, I was a mermaid, a phoenix, and a father.
In June everything started to make a lot more sense.
July took away my closest friend in this place, and also gave me something more.
In August, I tried to lead artists.
In September, I met my daughter.
And in October, I broke my leg, lost my arm, became a pony, and existed in others' nightmares.

Let's see what you've got to throw at me for this next year, castle.

[And then, because it's been far too long coming, he scribbles in a filter.]

[ Maya Fey ]

Maya. I need to tell you something.

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I see that your buffoonery has yet to cease, Mister Wright. Really, what purpose do you intend this balderdash to serve?

It is as plain and as tacky as that atrocious blue suit you wear in court. Tell me...Attorney, you claim to have been here an entire year. How is it then that you've not found the source of these happenings and found a way out?

You mean to say that your ragtag team of cheerleaders have not been supplying any helpful hints?

...while I don't really see the need in answering you, I'll humor you...

The purpose of writing that list was for my own benefit. It wasn't for you... and you didn't have to read it.

["Or nag me about it," he'd like to add.]

Before you question me for not finding a way home in a year, why don't you talk to some of the folks who've been here for more than three?

Then why bother to announce it publicly if it was supposedly for "your own" benefit? You did not show courtesy to spare us your idiocy, so I do not see why I should not read and answer as is my right to do so. You should consider yourself lucky -I- humored you in doing so.

[Too bad so sad why did you make this public, now you're going to regret it.]

...Do you honestly expect me to believe you were a "mermaid"? Were you not entirely under the influence when you wrote this?

I suppose really it's nothing that concerns me, however ludicrous I find this "list" of yours.

Supposing any of this were true I am interested in knowing how it is you managed to tangle yourself in quite so many baffling situations without consequence.

[This is beginning to reflect..poorly, Mister Wright.]

Nobody else has a problem with me writing this in my journal. You're the only one with a problem, and honestly, your opinion doesn't mean anything to me.

[Still, he's on the other side of that journal, breaking pencils in half as he talks.]

And yes, I was a mermaid! Ask Mi--

["Ask Miles, he was there," he'd almost said.

But he stops himself.]

--ask around. I wasn't the only guy turned into a mermaid or a princess back then. And as for consequences? Don't think for a second I haven't suffered the consequences of all the crap that's happened to me while I've been here. At least there's been enough good to help balance out all the bad.

If it meant nothing Attorney, why respond so...defensively? Clearly you would not be speaking to me still were that the case.

[And while he can hear the sound it will not stop him.]

Hmm. I expect you're too stupid to lie so blatantly. Still, I question the sanity of those who claim such things until I myself am given the evidence I seek to determine otherwise. But I cannot deny the overwhelming possibility that there may be merit to your words.

So tell me: Why is it simply the castle that you find fault with? Why do you all blame it?

Because the castle is the one that brought us all here in the first place. There isn't anyone pulling the strings. It's all the castle's doing.

Seems simple enough to figure out why we blame it. Surprised you didn't figure that out on your own.

That is what is claimed, not proven.

I have come to doubt that that is the entire truth, and given the lack of solid evidence I am loathe to accept a mere "theory".

Everyone else in this whole place accepts that as the entire truth. I'm assuming you've gotten some kind of special secret information that gives you a reason to think otherwise?

You cannot see why I remain skeptical? Then you are a fool.

[Duped just like all the others.]

I am not required to answer to you. If I have more information it is more than I shall tell you.

I think you're the fool, if you are more willing to stick to your own baseless beliefs than to listen to what a castle full of people has to say. You've been here, what, a couple of weeks? Some people have been here longer than four years.

Give their experience some credit.

My dear Attorney, my beliefs are hardly "baseless" as you claim. I do not blindly trust testimony that has no evidence or logic to base itself on. That is all. If it is as you say then truly I will find the answer. Hearsay bears no merit. Have you forgotten that so easily in this single year you've been here?

Now stop wasting my time.

Edited 2012-11-27 05:36 (UTC)

Four years' worth of witness testimony is plenty of evidence to me.

...and you're the one who's wasting my time, you know.

24 (forward dated slightly)

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