Nineteen Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[The Once-ler would be lying if he hadn't thought about this before. He'd been considering it for a couple of months now, but with Ted's arrival, with a seed of his own (a seed that was GROWING, more importantly) he figured it was time.

It terrified him, of course. It was a big step, and a big risk. If he got this wrong, it could destroy his world's future for good. He'd put the final nail in the coffin he'd been making them with his own foolish actions for the past five years. He couldn't chance another foolish, arrogant risk.

But he was also excited, a small sliver of hope had treacherously sneaked into him. This could be something he could do. It was the promise for...something. Redemption, maybe? The chance to make up for what he'd done back home, here in this Paradisa. Something to finally give him some semblance of inner peace.

And so, he takes a deep, calming breath, before speaking into the journal. Unsure. Unsure of if this would work, unsure if this was ultimately the right thing to do and terrified he'd miss his chance if it WAS]

I have a question. Hypothetical question. Say you come here, to Paradisa, with a thing. Doesn't have to be a specific thing, this is just a hypothetical thing. And when you leave, you leave that hypothetical thing behind. Does that mean that hypothetical thing stays here forever, and this is the super important part does that mean that thing stops existing in your world?

I mean, some of you have left and come back with memories, right? Would anyone know the answer to this question?

...This purely hypothetical question.

Please?

Comments

[dorkwonder]

How old is the youngest person here?

[whichwayyoulean]

I don't know, going around asking kids how old they are is the sort of thing that gets you labelled as a creeper, and I'm already a weird hermit, I don't need more labels.

[dorkwonder]

Saying "Wow, how old are you? You look way too young to be forced to live in some crazy castle away from your family and friends" would make someone a creeper? This place really is weird.

Why are you labeled a weird hermit?

[whichwayyoulean]

Pretty much. People are strangely over-protective of kids in this place.

Because I never leave my room and generally only talk to people over the journal.

[dorkwonder]

Oh, I guess...the hermit part fits. Not sure about the weird, that depends on if that's common or not where you're from.

[whichwayyoulean]

My world's pretty out there, really. Buuuut most people here are from Earth or some variant of Earth which sounds pretty darn boring from what I've heard about it. So their perception of 'weird' is kinda off.

[dorkwonder]

I wish my best friend was here. Okay, no, I don't wish he was here, more like I wish there was a way I could tell him all of this. He's always going on about how there's life outside of Earth.

[whichwayyoulean]

Well, he'd have a hoot here. Paradisa's proven that about a billion times over.

[dorkwonder]

And then some. I'd, uh, probably be having a hoot too if I didn't have to worry about dragons trying to eat me or getting sucked into some mysterious mirror.

[whichwayyoulean]

Then I suggest you schedule your hoot-times during parts of the month when this place isn't trying to ruin your life.

[dorkwonder]

Is there a pattern to help figure out when this place is going to go crazy?

[whichwayyoulean]

It's pretty random. The best I can suggest is to prepare for at least one crazy thing happening every month. I don't think we've ever gone a full month without something weird happening.

[dorkwonder]

Some magical castle this is. Magical castles are suppose to be awesome, not try and make us go crazy on a monthly basis.

[whichwayyoulean]

You have experiences with magical castles back home, do you?

[dorkwonder]

...Does reading and playing a lot of video games count?

[whichwayyoulean]

...


Yeah. Good luck buddy.