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[eldesthatter]

[The message is hand written, but you can hear to sound of it being written down on paper.]

To do:

1. Order one hundred yards of pink ribbon, three boxes of feathers, at least one bundle of lace.

2. Make sure Lettie and Martha clean their room before Friday.

3. Ask Fanny about the budget this week.

4. Visit the book shop?

[You can hear her scribbling out the fourth item and sighing heavily.]

No. Not today I think.

[Other voices can be heard, though they are faint. Perhaps calling from another room.]

Oh Sophie! Come look! Howl's Castle is coming into view!

Here to steal another heart perhaps? [Sophie is muttering as her footsteps echo off into the distance.]

Comments

[eldesthatter]

I beg your pardon?

[starblaze]

Mmm...

It's a nexus between universes. It shows up wherever communication is possible. In this instance, apparently your book.

[eldesthatter]

Enchanted books I've heard of. Other worlds...? Never.

[starblaze]

Well, it's true.

[eldesthatter]

I don't have nearly enough knowledge to argue or agree, so I'll have to take you at your word.

[starblaze]

My name is Shooter. And you're Sophie?

[eldesthatter]

Ah. Yes.

You heard that?

[starblaze]

Yeah. The community often records things unannounced.

[eldesthatter]

...It does?

[starblaze]

Yeah. Sometimes it can be annoying like that.

[eldesthatter]

It certainly seems like trouble. No wonder I got it so cheaply.

[starblaze]

Ah, it's not the book itself. The community can show up anywhere. Even in mirrors.

[eldesthatter]

I really don't think I should be messing around with something like that. I should see if I could have a witch look at it.

[starblaze]

I don't know if it's magic, though.

[eldesthatter]

What else could it be?

[starblaze]

I'm not so sure.

I think someone once suggested aliens.

[eldesthatter]

Aliens? Wouldn't we all be considered such if the idea of different worlds is true?

[starblaze]

Mm, I've been called an alien before too.

There's really no solid explanation.

[eldesthatter]

No one knows? No one at all?

[starblaze]

Most people assume the community has a mind of its own. But there's nothing that proves any theory.

[eldesthatter]

But someone must have given it that mind if that is true.

[starblaze]

I guess so. But if that were true, no one knows who's responsible.

[eldesthatter]

Yes.

...It was just a thought.

[starblaze]

A lot of people think that too.

[eldesthatter]

But no one's figured it out.