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[ bran's experience on the mirror side had been an altogether unpleasant one, but that's not what he speaks to the network with, today. he looks sad, almost, brows drawn together, hands buried in the wolfskin cloak that so often finds its way around his shoulders. bran nods his head in greeting, and then asks, quietly, though not focused on the camera. ]

Is there a way for one's...mirror and themselves to exist at the same time, in the same place?

[ he saw summer, he watched the wolf through the mirror, and had no way of getting to him. even trying to warg from across the glass failed--he was rejected, as if something was wrong. bran understands little about wonderland and less about the so called mirrors, only that he dreamt of a sword and then suddenly the mansion was abuzz.

that's all he has, though, the only question. he must be reunited with summer again somehow. bran's quiet for just a second longer, before he ducks his head and adds a little more. ] That is all, thank you.

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I don't think so, no. I had to switch with my mirror in order to get to the other side, it wouldn't let me go until she switched.

-- Why? Are you alright?

Yes, Lady Rachel. [ bran ducks his head in a little nod, offering a small smile--he's pleased to see her, because the one like her he'd heard around the mansion seemed nothing like his dear friend at all. ]

I saw Summer. [ quietly so. ] He is the other part of my greensight, and has been my companion since he was a pup.

Your mirror has a familiar like yours from home? But he didn't follow you here?

Or.

Wait, how do you mean?

[ bran is quiet for a long moment, as he tries to weigh what he wants to say with the responsibility of what it is. does he trust rachel?

he does. he really does. ] I...don't only have the greensight. At night, I had dreams of becoming a wolf, for a very long time, as if I were Summer, instead of simply walking beside him. He and I were one and the same, and it was Jojen who told me that I was able to do that, both inside of my dreams and in the waking world.

I'm...a warg, and I'm able to do such things now. [ he swallows, feeling a little jittery and nervous, and clutches at the handles of his chair just outside of the video feed. ] Even here in the mansion, I have done so, though only with a boar.

So... A warg is someone that can kind of- tap into an animal's mindset? Like animal telepathy, kind of? [ she sounds excited, but she wants to make sure she actually gets it first ] That's cool!

--But not cool that Summer's there for your mirror, and not you. [ ... wait ] Is Summer your mirror?

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[ bran nods his head, a little flustered at the attention--it is, though, kind of. cool, that was the word? that's a good thing, bran thinks. he thinks it's cool. ]

I believe so, my lady. [ he fingers at the wolf pelt around his shoulders for a moment, rubbing his fingers into the fur as he tries to explain what jojen and meera had told him many a time before. ] It is possible that...if a warg stays for too long in the mind of a beast, then they'll become one. I know little of the mirrors, but from what I have learned, then, he could be me, as I am often him.

[ just...gone wrong. ]

That sounds a little bit like what my mirror is like. Sort of.

[ she can tell he's not compleeeetely comfortable talking about this, and she doesn't blame him for it, not really. it's hard to wrap your head around, especially if there's some part of you that's genuinely curious about your mirror counterpart, when you probably shouldn't be. she knows cause she feels the same. ]

There was a risk of my mind sort of- rejecting my powers, when I took my oath. I think that's what happened to my mirror. The spirit didn't settle like it did with me, it just- completely messed up her mind. Not that it sounds like Summer is a "worst case scenario" for you, but it could be, you know? Anything that makes you lose your sense of self is a little bit worst-case.

There was one time it happened. The Queen of Hearts challenged the Red Queen to a chess match, and we were used as the chess pieces. All the Mirrors and Reals were on this side the day of the match.

[Al chews his lip.] There...was also the time that roots were trying to destroy the whole mansion, and if you got hurt by them your mirror self was put in your head with you. That's not quite the same thing, but it's still relevant, I think.

[ the last one is the most interesting to the young prince, and his brows knit together for a second, almost out of curiosity. it sounds like warging, to be honest--almost as if it were in reverse. ] But that is the only time, you say?

[Al nods.] In the time that I've been here, and it's been about a year and a half for me. It's probably because of what they are, and how Wonderland works, so it takes an extra effort to have both of them together.

Well, that's my guess, at least.

It's very unlikely. What is it that you could possibly want from your Mirror?

[ he knows his own answer, he knows a plethora of answers, but he's curious to hear which is Brans. ]

[ a familiar face, one bran's (foolishly, perhaps) glad to see; he ducks his head in greeting, polite as ever. ] My mirror was Summer. My direwolf, my lord.

[ he can almost fathom why, though he understands only what Jojen has told him about the mirrors, and his warning is what makes nervousness well up in Bran's stomach--what he could be was shown on the other side of the mirror, a warg who lost his humanity. ]

[ Curious, that your mirror was your pet. It begs the question...]

Do you mean that your mirror had Summer, or that he was?

Was, my lord. [ bran's brows knit together as he considers how to explain this--he must be careful and wise and never tell the wrong person.

those who had been of his family--they were the right people. were they not? ] I was often warned that if I spent too much time warged with Summer, I would not be able to return to myself.

In most situations, we only ever see people switch, but...

[She presses her lips together as she thinks back to last Halloween. What happened then wasn't quite what Bran was asking about, but still worth noting.]

Sometimes, they co-exist. Not equally, but there was an incident where some Mirrors came over to this side and took over the bodies of their Reals. We could still see and hear everything, but they were in control.

As if you were a warg. [ he doesn't mean to say that out loud--thinking to himself, more than anything--but it comes out anyway, and the young prince frowns. ] Maybe that does make more sense.

I just need to get to him, Jo. [ softly. ] We've never been apart, not since I found him.

A warg?

[Sorry, Bran, she'll need some clarification on that one, despite her retaining her memories of being your sister. Apparently, wargs never came up.]

You've never been apart from your Mirror?

[That doesn't make any sense at all from where she's standing.]

I feel like I missed something here.

[ he does trust jo, truly, he does, and bran opens up to her about his powers easily. like the big sister he never had the chance to have--his two, torn away from him too fast. ] With the greensight came dreams of wolves. I often dreamt that I was Summer--that his actions were my own and that we were the same. My dreams have always been true, and I had learned now how to do the same outside of them. That is what a warg is, my lady, able to share the mind of a beast.

[ his gaze flickers away for a second, and bran swallows. it's not like he's afraid, but it's strange to say these things out loud. ] I've thought that maybe seeing Summer--these mirrors are supposed to be ourselves, are they not?

Greensight, that's-- premonitions?

[It seems like a reasonable enough guess, with the information she's been given, but his world always sounds so strange to her that she can't always be sure what conclusions to draw.]

Summer's your wolf. [She says it just for confirmation -- she remembers that much from their fabricated lives together.] The Mirrors are reflections of us, but they're not who we really are. They're some twisted version of us instead. Did you think your Mirror was--

[Oh.]

Is it Summer?

[ bran nods his head--yes to the premonitions, and yes to the last part as well. ] I saw him wandering the halls, when I had switched across to the other side.

Once, Jojen told me that if I warged too often, I would never return to being human. [ it hadn't sounded like such a bad thing; bran's wolf dreams were what made him the happiest, more than anything in his real existence did. ] Does that sound as if it were a mirror?

Not like any Mirror I've heard of. I'm not sure that's how they work. I can't say the same for wargs.

[All she knows about them is what Bran's told her, after all.]

It's possible, I guess -- for your Mirror to be something that could have happened to you, but didn't. If that's the case, mine isn't quite like yours, but-- it's like if things went just a little differently back home, she's who I could have been.

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