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Is... Is this really L-Lindblum..? Did I fall asleep..?

[Wonderland, please have one absolutely baffled little Black Mage staring up at the Mansion from the gardens, unsure what to make of the building before him. He's heard Lindblum was big--not to say the Mansion itself wasn't huge--but... only one building..?

After a moment he crouches down in thought, looking at the ground for a brief moment before looking back up at it. Nope. It was still there.]

I wonder where e-everyone is...

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Uhm... W-well I'm from outside of Treno with my Grandpa. I-It's a city full of nobles but I was on t-the way to Lindblum with my friends o-on a cargo ship.

And I'm... I'm a black mage.

[But not one of those that came from the Black Mage factory. Zidane said so.]

[All of that sounded interesting. Vivi's world sounded so different from his own.]

A black mage? You wield magic?

[Vivi nods, readjusting his hat.]

Y-Yeah, I can. I just... try not to. I-It's dangerous...

[Minato smiled a little.]

Is it something you can't control?

I'm... I'm not sure...

You can practice by the hedge maze. It's okay.

[They soon reached the Mansion, and Minato opened the door for the mage.]

Just be aware of events and the mirrors while you're here.

I-Is that when this place becomes dangerous..? I think someone m-mentioned about mirrors and a Queen...

Mn. Events are when the Mansion takes someone's memory and makes everyone else live through it. That person loses a word related to it.

Sometimes it's dangerous when the mirrors are active. But it's not so bad.

[Although a revolution is around the corner.]

[Blink, blink. Active mirrors?]

...D-do the mirrors talk or something?

[Oh, right, the term "mirror" meant more here than it probably did in other worlds.]

On the other side of the mirrors is another world. The residents there resemble us in appearance but differ in personality. They're called "Mirrors" too.

...O-oh.

[He thinks for a moment. Weren't... the manufactured Black Mages like Vivi but acted different? Now he's wondering.]

You'll get used to it. It's okay.

I guess s-so... I've never r-really seen another me before.

[Minato nodded.]

I know. A lot of others can say the same.

Sometimes the mirrors write on the glass mirrors to communicate. They can hear and see us, but not the other way around.

Are they nice?

For the most part. They're separate individuals and should be treated as such.

Alrighty... I-I'll say hi to them if I see one.

[That actually made Minato smile a little.]

I think some of them would like that.

Oh uhm... Y-You said we couldn't see them, right? M-Maybe I'll write back if one of the mirrors on the walls says something.

Not usually. But sometimes they cross over here.

So they can v-visit us?

When they do, they force their version from here to go to the other world. We can't exist on the same side as our Mirror.

[Well, they weren't supposed to, anyway, but it had happened before.]

[What.]

...W-Why not?

It's as though we can't be on the same side as our reflection in a regular mirror.

Oh... M-Maybe Wonderland would get confused if e-everyone was on the same side...

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