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[The camera opens on the video feed. Not much can be seen, as what appears to be a hand is covering most of the camera. There is a THUNK as the device is thrown onto a hard surface and skids slightly until it settles, setting up a clear view of the edge of the fountain. A young man is standing waist-deep in water, drenched to the skin. He pushes his fiery red hair out of his eyes, and peers towards the device with what may be an extremely familiar freckled face.]

Look, if someone’s trying to make a point here, I have bathed today.

[He’s seemed to have worked out that the device is broadcasting, and is nonplussed by it. He hoists himself out of the water and sits of the edge, trying to shakes the water out of his sleeves.]

And Ron, if this is another one of your misguided attempts to ‘cheer me up’, I must say that you’ve reached a bit of an all-time low. Dropping me into a fountain, really? Absolutely no finesse at all. In fact I’m considering disowning you on the spot. And I have water up my ear-hole.

[He tilts his head over and gives it a smack to try and dislodge the water. Wear his left ear should be, there is simply a dark hole in the side of his head.]

If the water seeps into my brain I am holding you personally responsible. I don’t need to be brain-damaged on top of being horribly disfigured.

[He hops to his feet and scoops up the device, holding it level with his face as he turns around, surveying his surroundings.]

Now. Where in bleeding hell am I?

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[Aaaand now Hanna is embarrassed, and he feels sort of awkward. Please do not kill him, he is skinny and a rotten husk.]

Sorry. You look just like somebody I know, though, and really, I wouldn't put it past him to have found some way to blow his ear off in the past 2 days.

[Something inside George jumps, but he clenches his jaw against it. Just stay calm, Georgie, and find out the facts.]

Fred Weasley. You know Fred Weasley, and you've seen him within a two-day period of time?

Yeah. Last I saw him, he was doing some epic explosive-involving advertising for his joke shop...which is why I was wondering if he hadn't managed to blow off an ear with those fireworks.

Why?

[George scrambles to his feet, still dripping pretty heavily.]

Where is he, then? This is usually the bit where the prat shows up.

Right now? I guess he'd be at the shop...

...you might want a towel or something first, though.

That's rubbish. If this is my hallucination, he should be the one to come find me.

...if this is your hallucination, then why would there be some sort of random stranger in it?

And I dunno. I mean, I feel pretty real to me.

[And as if to prove a point, Hanna pinches himself...rather hard.]

...ow.

I've dreamed stranger things.

And I think you're supposed to let someone else to that part, mate.

So have I, trust me. But this? This is no dream. This is the City.

Well, I would, but I'm the only one here...and I doubt you want some stranger randomly coming up and pinching you.

Wait, hold on. I'm Hanna. Hanna Cross. You're Fred's brother, right? You look just like him, so...twins?

The City? That's total bollocks. I'm sure I could dream up a better place name than that.

[There's that sting again at Fred's name. But alright, if this dream thinks he's still around, who's he to argue with it.]

That's right. George Weasley, pleasure to meet you.

So could I. That's why it's not really a dream...well, that and about a billion other insane things that won't help my argument at all, but.

[Hanna just shrugs before grinning at George.]

I take it you were the other part of the 'we' he kept mentioning the other night?

[George gives the device in his hands a hard look.]

If you want to convince me I'm not dreaming, you might want to explain how it's possible that you've spoken to my brother within the last four months.

Simple. People don't stay dead here. Like, at all.

It doesn't make sense, I know...but the rules of this place do not work on basic logic levels. People are brought here by a set of batshit insane deities, who then trap us here, experiment on us in these things called curses, and people who die here, or are dead when brought here, don't stay dead.

...I take it that's why you think you're dreaming. If I'm wrong, I'll hit myself so you don't have to.

So Fred's here, but he's dead.

[That's certainly...odd. Normally he dreams that he's still alive.]

Is he not supposed to be? Or am I just getting everything mixed up and confused again.

I mean, if he's dead, he's still walking and talking and whatnot...he's not a zombie, though. Trust me, I know zombies, and the City Dead, while sort of on the borderline, aren't zombies. They're not nearly green enough, for starters.

Well, he's dead back home. That generally doesn't involve him walking around, though.

[He's trying very hard to keep his voice steady, but it comes off as pretty damn bitter, anyway.]

Zombies? They're like Inferi, right? I saw something about them in some Muggle comic book, once.

Well, dead works differently here.

...Inferi...? Well, I dunno. I've only ever met one zombie, and he's more like a green person with amnesia and a tendency to lose his limbs if they're not sewn properly, THANK YOU. Gallahad doesn't really fit the stereotype. He doesn't eat brains, he doesn't groan...he's chill.

[Sorry, tangent about zombie bff.]

[George is more than happy for the tangent.]

Sounds like a brill mate to have.

Oh, Martin's the best! He's a great cook, he's got this awesome dry sense of humor, and he certainly smiles more than Conrad ever does...sorry, Conrad. Vampire. Generally a grump.

They're not here, though...wish they were. I know they'd love a ton of the people here...well, Leroy would. Conrad would complain and then reluctantly meet people, but that's how he is.

You certainly move with an interesting crowd.

What can I say, me and normal don't get along.

Oh, hey, are you magic too?

I'm a wizard, yeah. The whole Weasley clan is.

Brilliant.

[This earns George a grin. He's still not exactly sure what he is, since he can do magic, but without a want, and only one kind, but...]

Are you a wizard, then?

Uhm...sort of? It's sort of complicated. See, I can do magic, but not wand magic, and only one specific type, so...I'm something, anyway...

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