Those are the parts that Fitz doesn't remember and treats as though they were an entirely separate person. But that's a much longer story that she's going to wait until they're at the bar, and she's grabbing a bottle of bourbon to pour a few fingers for them both.
"Wonderland has this ... funny little relationship with death. You're given a few ... lives where Wonderland will resurrect you without consequence. You can tell how many deaths a person has had by the number of days it takes for them to be resurrected again."
And with that brief lesson on Wonderland mechanics out of the way: "Fitz originally arrived in Wonderland around the same time I did three years ago, but prior to his entrance into the Framework. He had two deaths due to events and Wonderland adjacent situations, and was sent home briefly before coming back as this Framework version of himself. We presumed, at first, that he was a separate Fitz entirely, as he didn't seem to remember his time in Wonderland and was such a completely different person."
She pauses to take a long sip of her drink before she gets to the but of that statement.
"That is, until he died again, and it took three days to revive him. That's when we discovered that he had been brainwashed somehow and I took steps to try and rectify it." She pauses for a moment. "I owe him greatly, for a risk he took for me. I'm doing my best to try and repay it. It's not going to fix the things he's done, but at least it will put him in a position where he will be more capable of making amends."
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Those are the parts that Fitz doesn't remember and treats as though they were an entirely separate person. But that's a much longer story that she's going to wait until they're at the bar, and she's grabbing a bottle of bourbon to pour a few fingers for them both.
"Wonderland has this ... funny little relationship with death. You're given a few ... lives where Wonderland will resurrect you without consequence. You can tell how many deaths a person has had by the number of days it takes for them to be resurrected again."
And with that brief lesson on Wonderland mechanics out of the way: "Fitz originally arrived in Wonderland around the same time I did three years ago, but prior to his entrance into the Framework. He had two deaths due to events and Wonderland adjacent situations, and was sent home briefly before coming back as this Framework version of himself. We presumed, at first, that he was a separate Fitz entirely, as he didn't seem to remember his time in Wonderland and was such a completely different person."
She pauses to take a long sip of her drink before she gets to the but of that statement.
"That is, until he died again, and it took three days to revive him. That's when we discovered that he had been brainwashed somehow and I took steps to try and rectify it." She pauses for a moment. "I owe him greatly, for a risk he took for me. I'm doing my best to try and repay it. It's not going to fix the things he's done, but at least it will put him in a position where he will be more capable of making amends."