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[No no no no no no. No. That's not her mom. That's not her mom, and this isn't the airport, and it's another nightmare, it has to be. What else could it be? It's a dream and it's not her dream and that means she's trapped.]

[Anybody in New Bark will likely catch the sight of a little girl slowly backing away from the house she'd woken up in with wide eyes before breaking into a run and coming to a stop next to some trees to dig through her backpack. Except it's not her own backpack. And the things inside aren't what she wants or needs them to be.]

[Which is a big stressor to a kid who has no idea what to do.]

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Hello? Mr- Parkman? I didn't do anything, I promise.

[Spoken with the urgency of children who want to prove themselves innocent everywhere.]

Please let me out.

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_{[Have the voice of a very young boy! Can't be older than seven or eight.]}

Who's mister Parkman?

Why do you need to be let out?

Are you in a cage?

_{[But that's a little kid. How can a little kid help?]

[She can't really help answering with the kind of impatient condescending tone kids love going for with younger kids. It's universal, okay.]}

No, I'm not.

I have to get home.

_{[HEY DON'T TAKE THAT TONE WITH HIM, HE'S... okay he's not being helpful at all, actually. So she's sort of right.]}

Everybody says we can't go home and that home is really far away.

Like in a different world far away.

I didn't know there even were different worlds!

Did you?

No!

_{[She kind of huffs that. Not quite the debate she was looking for at the moment.]}

But it doesn't matter. If someone put us here, someone can get us out.

You think so?

_{[He actually sounds... pretty earnest. He only got here a couple weeks ago himself, so it's not like he knows much more about it than she does.]}

Who put us here, then?

_{[Aaand she falters. Because she doesn't know.]

[She thought maybe it was Mr. Parkman, but she doesn't want to talk about him, and nobody else knows who he is. So it's probably not him.]}

I don't know. Someone said it was a giraffe, but that doesn't make any sense.

_{[AND WRATH IS THE SECOND PERSON SHE'LL HAVE TALKED TO TODAY WHO HAS NO IDEA WHAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT.]}

What's a giraffe?

_{[Do they not have schools anywhere other than LA or New York?]}

They're these big animals with really long necks.

But they're animals. So they can't do these things.

_{[oh kid.]}

Like a horse?

_{[THAT'S THE LONGEST-NECKED THING HE'S EVER SEEN, OKAY?]}

_[SIGH]

No, they're bigger. And spotty, and they eat tree leaves.

Oh.

_{[Just so you know, Molly, now he's picturing a giant spotted horse that's tall enough to eat off the top of trees.]}

... They sound pretty silly. I wanna see one!

They kind of are. They have blue tongues.

_{[Which is pretty silly.]}

... A blue tongue?

Ew!

_{[DESPITE HIS VERBAL REACTION, he sounds positively delighted about the notion.]}

_{[Molly's still deciding that she's not gonna get much helpful input from this kid, so she's just kind of humouring him. With the older-sister attitude of doing so.]}

Yeah. They're really long, too.

_{[WRATH IS VIRTUALLY NEVER HELPFUL so she's not really wrong.]}

Wow!

It almost sounds more like a chimera than a real animal!

_{[Not that he's seen enough real animals to really be a good judge of that, but he's at least seen enough to know that being huge and spotted and with long blue tongues sounds REALLY WEIRD.]}

_{[... ??]}

What's a chimera?

You know!

When an alchemist takes two different animals and combines them together!

That's a chimera.

They can get pretty weird!

You can't do that.

It doesn't work that way.

What're you talking about? Yes you can, it happens all the time!

I know people who do it!

_{[... OKAY he knows ONE person who does it. And he doesn't really like that person because he's creepy as hell, but.]}

Maybe they're tricking you. Making you see things.

You can't just take two animals and put them together.

They are not! Everyone knows about chimeras!

It's science.

It's not real science. You can't mix DNA like that.

_{[Mohinder would be proud, probably.]}

DNA?

What's that?

It's like ... all the information about who we are. It's stored in DNA. It's in your body.

Oh.

Why can't it be mixed if it's in your body, then?

Bodies can be mixed.

I do it all the time!

_{[... LITERALLY. ... Or literally before he came here, anyway. He can't do it anymore. When he tried to turn his arm to wood, he just hurt his hand on the floor. 8(]}

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