Mécanisme 003 [Video]

[horlogerie]

 [Hugo sits on the floor of his room, his steam engine on the ground in front of him as well as his father's broad silver pocket watch that always keeps perfect time both sitting amongst a few odds and ends the likes of screws, gears, springs, and rudimentary tools like hammers.]

I make things and I fix things... [He gestures to the stuff in front of him, the train in particular which sits gleaming the length of a man's arm now that he's just finished polishing and painting it.] Back home- Back where I am from I fix clocks and I know how to make them. 

I want to do that here. I can make or fix almost anything if it is a machine, if it's got parts like these [He holds up a gear and a spring] But right now I don't have any money, so I can't buy more parts. I guess that means I can't really make things so much as fix them until I can afford to make them. Unless there's something you want and you've got the parts for it. 

[He swallows awkwardly, frowning at his things. He's not used to talking this much or this...publicly]

So...how do you start a business? 

Comments

[madcuriosity]

How did you know! [Alice smiles bright.] That's right! I did. But Wonderland was so much stranger than my usual dreams.

[horlogerie]

You dreamt it and went there?

[madcuriosity]

Mmhmm! Or, at least I think I did. Just like with the Looking Glass.

[horlogerie]

What is a looking glass?

[madcuriosity]

A mirror, of course.

[horlogerie]

So...what what happened with the mirror?

[madcuriosity]

I went through it, naturally!

[horlogerie]

One doesn't usually go through a mirror at all.

[madcuriosity]

Well, how else are you supposed to go through the looking glass to get into the looking glass house?

[horlogerie]

I've never heard of the looking glass house.

[madcuriosity]

I imagine you have and simply didn't know it. Have you ever been in a house with a mirror overlooking a room within it?

[horlogerie]

Well...yes.

[madcuriosity]

Well, the house inside the mirror is a looking glass house!

[horlogerie]

What is in the looking glass house?

[madcuriosity]

Well, it looks the exact same as your house just everything is backwards and all sorts of things that couldn't move before could move now. Like the chess pieces, they can speak and move but because you're just so big, they don't even realize you're the one moving them about! They think some strong wind does it! And then, once you leave the house and the beautiful garden, you enter the looking glass country which is set up like a giant chess board!