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Has this ever happened to you? You are an adventurous and daring roleplayer bursting with motivation and ideas, and Wonderland seems just the place for you to let your creativity flourish, AND YET... you doubt.

Unsure if your grasp on that one character's voice is as firm as you'd like it to be? Wondering how exactly your regular character's quirks will work out, once you've turned them into a Mirror? Curious and curiouser about how your magnificent muse might fit into the world of Wonderland? Or do you simply want to warm up and stretch your legs, before submitting that application and coming to meet entranceway's characters and players?

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[taer]

[ drowning their sorrows is hardly a good habit to get into, but right now, sara thinks a drink is warranted. sara knows too much about alcoholism and substance abuse to want to get into the habit of it, either. it's ruined her family almost as much as sara's first alleged death had, and it's another thing she hadn't been there to prevent, to help with. (like laurel's death.)

she gives him a nod, now, and follows. there's some tension still between her shoulder blades and in the way she carries herself, but less than before. this isn't the rip who killed her and she remembers trusting him as much as she remembers not being able to. ]

Not nearly as much as I want to know. [ not nearly enough to feel comfortable, and too much to feel comfortable, too. ] Is there a cliffnotes version of the necessary things?

[directed]

Well, I can try—although we both know I'm not always the most concise.

[And even in a life such as either of theirs, where so much they've experienced and done would easily qualify as impossible for most, Wonderland is something of a stretch. There's a certain comfort when it comes to understanding the way things like time and reality are meant to work; Rip's largely discovered as much by having any sense of that understanding taken away.

Five flights of stairs gives Rip the time to offer something of an abbreviated version, however. He tells her of the periodic events that change their environment and sometimes the residents themselves, of deaths that don't last, not just in Sara's case, but for everyone. Mention is given to the Mirrors that exist on the other side of each reflective plane of glass, of Chronos specifically, as his attack remains still fresh in Rip's mind.

With a frown, he tells her about memories, and all the ways this world seems to steal them.

And then of timelines. They've touched upon it already by establishing that Rip is from what Sara sees as the past. So it goes for their whole number, friend and foe: Raymond, Mick, Nate, and Eobard Thawne. None of them seem to have been drawn from the same moment within their own history, and everyone has been pulled from Rip's future.

Save one.

His general inability to keep things short has served in Rip's favor this time, and he offers Sara a look of sympathy as they enter the bar. If she doesn't already know, Rip stands uncertain how she'll take the news—and perhaps it's better to be closer to where they've meant to end up.]

Mr. Snart has been drawn here as well—from the encounter at the Oculus.

[taer]

[ sara lets out a snort at that comment, not terribly ladylike (but then, when was she ever anything like a lady?) but amused. it feels almost normal and she isn't sure yet if it can be. what happened wasn't his fault, but it still happened too recently for sara to trust this change entirely. rationally, she knows he's the old rip. there's still a catch in her chest when she looks at him, though; she can't help it.

it'll fade with time.

it's a lot to take in, everything that he tells her. eobard thawne's presence. snart, alive.

(for a moment, she wonders, wishes that her system could be here as well.) ] How is that possible? [ but no, timelines are complicated things. ] Forget I asked.

[directed]

[Perhaps it isn't the most ladylike, but it's close enough to a laugh that Rip really doesn't mind it. Especially when he considers that Sara still seems uneasy in some way he can't quite place his finger on. Or perhaps he can, at least the barest edges of it, but to try and harder would force the question to the surface—

What has happened in the future--his future—to warrant her looking at him like that?

Offering the explanation of what they know of Wonderland serves as decent enough distraction. Particularly at the end, when she begins to ask for a reason and then decides against it.]

Are you sure? Because I do have a theory. [Perhaps not the best one or the most widely accepted, even among their number. But it's been one of the few effects Rip can name a potential cause for that is something other than "because we're in bloody Wonderland somehow, where nothing makes sense."

There's a pause when they first walk in, before Rip takes her up to the bar. While he might himself have preferred whatever privacy there was to be found in a booth, they would get their drinks faster this way—and Rip suspects Sara might be a bit more comfortable to have that freedom of space.]

[taer]

[ it's better for both of them if he doesn't force the question, if he doesn't try too hard to figure out why she remains just a little on edge, uneasy and tense. he won't be able to change any of it, so there's no use making him carry that weight already. if they ever get him back, if she ever sees this rip again in the regular timeline, he'll have to deal with it one way or another. maybe he'll be able to accept that it wasn't his fault.

somehow, sara doubts it.

but his explanation does offer a distraction, and soon enough they're at the bar. sara scans the rows of bottles behind it for a moment, but turns to rip quickly enough when he says that. ] In that case, lay it on me.