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[ The first thing you see....is pumpkins. So many pumpkins. This house is full of pumpkins in various stages of being carved. Those who know Hazel can easily recognize this scene of mass chaos as Residence #11. However, the chalk scribbles on the wall are decidedly not hers. To start with, some of them are in a different language that looks kind of circly.

The personless scene lasts only for a moment before the Doctor scurries into frame, looking a mixture of confused and frowny. He's looking kind of magician, wearing a black coat over a black hoodie. Finally, he's holding an owl by the scruff of it's neck (can you do that with an owl? Who knows, the Doctor's doing so). Said owl is Owlfonso, the skateboarding owl that really doesn't want to be here right now and is desperately trying to peck the Doctor's fingers. ]

I want to clarify first that for once, none of this is my fault. [ except the chalk writing, which is obviously his, but that either a: goes without commenting on or b: the Doctor's forgotten it by now. also wow, that sure is a Scottish accent ] That being said- [ WHAM the camera gets a face full of owl ]

Is this normal? I mean, normal for owls. Is this how I can tell this dimension apart from my dimension? No eyepatches, no goatees, just owls that can suddenly skateboard? [ He backs poor Owlfonso away from the camera, as the Doctor's still got an expression that's pure 'what the hell is this shit' ] Well, skateboarding owls and a postponed perestroika. Spoilers, you're twenty years out of date.

[ pause, frown. The Doctor looks over at poor Owlfonso with a sort of resigned expression. ] The alternate dimension of owls and Communism. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

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Poking around, getting into everybody's business, I know you're a politician but at least try to keep up.

Jesus, can someone be job-ist?

[ Why are Doctors always weird. ]

So you get into everyone's business? Like...just to help them, or...because you're nosy?

[ this one's even more job-ist than some other Doctors. :c ]

Can't it be both?

Well, do what you love, I guess. That would be one way to go about it.

Not that I can blame you, I work in government -- which I love.

You keep saying things like that but it's just not registering. Again, brainwashed.

I know we have a reputation for lying, but this is getting fucked up.

Says the person who wants me to believe he's willingly a politician.

Well, I'm just not someone who does "this and that", as you put it. I need to serve.

Politicians and serving. Never really thought to put the two together.

Well I was a civil servant before...

And then circumstances changed and I had to choose a new line of work.

Getting pulled into an alternate dimension circumstances or other circumstances?

Oh, no. That's... this was before I showed up in the City. I lost my job, and... had to change careers after an accident.

Wait, back up, the City? Who names a city the City?

[ says the doctor called the Doctor ]

Some asshole who doesn't know how to name locations?

It was called that before any of us arrived.

Surely you could rename it. Start a petition, that's big these days!

Well...

It doesn't exist anymore.

How'd that happen?

Er --

It was destroyed. By one of the three sisters. They...ran shit back there, in a way. Kind of.

It's complicated.

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Three sisters? How annoyingly vague.

I've got time.

It's... shit, how to get into it.

The porter, the one that was before this one was in the City. Her name was Lachesis, and she, ah, she had two sisters, kind of. One was in another universe that Lachesis took us to, from what I heard. I had...left before that.

The other was...Atropos. She...kind of destroyed the world. Lachesis is the one that saved us.

[ There's a pause while the Doctor hems and haws a bit. ] I assume that sister in a different universe was Clotho?

Which honestly, doesn't make sense. Atropos cuts the thread, destroys the world. Lachesis measures the thread of life, saves you lot because you still have thread left. Clotho spins the thread. So wouldn't Clotho be the one who brought you there in the first place?

Our lives didn't start in the City, though.

They started in other worlds. [ It's almost a shrug, Mitchell wasn't exactly the expert on mythology. ]

I don't know how it works, I mean. I just know how it was.

[ A grumpy HUFF. Come on Mitchell, know more stuff!!! ]

Well do you know someone who does know how it works?

Not really? As a whole, we're all pretty in the dark, honestly.

[ what ]

You're joking. [ he's gotta be joking. Mitchell's (unfortunately) human, but he's got to know something about the teleporter that brought him here, right? Right? ]

Is this one of those hidden camera things where you're an actor and everybody points and laughs at me at the end?

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