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[While there's a part of him still worried that Phoenix somehow snapped his mind or something, or that he's just hallucinating all this, Logan has been more or less talked down from the notion that this is all in his head.

Which means he attacked and threatened a lot of 'figments of his imagination' who ...weren't after all.   Way to make friends, Logan.  He's hardly about to apologize for it, or explain himself to anybody over the journals.  He's suffered enough public humiliation thanks to Julian's pranking.  

The pain of hearing about Jean's death - even if it was in a world apparently somehow unlike his own - intensifies his own claustrophobic sense of  despondency, stuck here with no plan for how to save her, even if he did get back home.

The whole alternate universe thing is still bugging him.  He knows the possibilities of what he could be like, given different circumstances, different choices.  Seems like other-Wolverine wound up with the X-Men too, though, and that thought's a little heartening.  

Still no word from anyone he remotely recognizes, which leaves him to feel the need to figure out exactly what kind of 'chain of command' he's dealing with around here.  He sits up on the roof, one arm slung across his knee as he looks out over the beautiful landscape.  It's breathtaking out there, he'll give it that.]

This is Wolverine.  [He feels like an idiot, talking to a book, but he sucks it up.]   I wanna hear from any X-Men stuck here, see what kinda numbers we're dealing with.  Who's in charge of the team?

[He sounds much more level-headed now, as if he hadn't shown up and trashed the place, or broken Julian's nose, etc, etc.  

He'd be happy with never speaking about his arrival in general again.  After a moment he adds:]

[Laura / X-23]

I wasn't trying to kill him.

[ooc; open over the journals, or action!spam on the roof]

Comments

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Is it that obvious?

[molotov]

You certainly look like the kind of man who normally wears a suit. [This is fun, Molotov likes that Logan rolls with her teasing]

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

[Digging in his coat for a cigar.]

Left it at the dry cleaners back in my dimension, unfortunately.

[molotov]

I hope you kept your ticket. You will have to pick it up when you go back.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure they'll hand it over.

[molotov]

Of course.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

[Annnd lighting it]

So how long you been stuck here?

[molotov]

[Molotov produces a cigarette of her own, which she lights and drags] Six months.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

And no clue what this place is?

[molotov]

A castle.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

[He merely responds with a 'hrmph' noise under his breath.]

[molotov]

[Molotov snorts.] As stupid as it sounds, da, this is truly a magic castle. The building itself might not be magic, but there is magic here. And I do not mean just in the wishes or the losses.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Then what kinda magic you talkin'?

[molotov]

You will notice it, eventually. Nothing is ever out of place, unless one of the people living here does it. Nothing breaks on its own, nothing is ever wrong with the building. At Christmas, there were hundreds of birds, for weeks, and not a drop of waste.

And look. [She gestures out at the grounds] No power lines. No water plant. So where does the electricity come from? The running water?

[Molotov shrugs. She's not the kind to do something with this information, but that doesn't mean she never noticed it.] Something or someone made this castle, especially for us.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Back home, we've got mutants who could probably make that kinda thing possible.

Maybe they've got 'em here too.

[molotov]

You think a mutant is kidnapping a ragtag assortment of morons, plus me, and holding us hostage in a castle for his own entertainment?

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Must not have been anything on TV here, either.

[molotov]

[Molotov just snorts]

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Can't claim I know why anyone would do something so insane, but takes all kinds.

[molotov]

I do not think anyone has ever believed it to be a mutant before.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Maybe they don't have mutants back home.

[molotov]

I do not think most of us do. My world certainly does not.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Maybe you do, and you just don't know it.

[molotov]

Hm, in my world, mutants would become villains almost by default -- there are plenty of people in that career field who have powers or other interesting quirks. Or else they would be recruited by the government.

[slicesanddices.livejournal.com]

Happens in our world too.