Life, Once Again!

A rabbit standing on two feet tucked his body with his loving front foot. Suddenly, the black tux covers the white body. In your right hand, you hold a limp pocket watch. He walked upright toward himself like a runway. Autumn looked around. A rabbit standing in the middle of the set with two feet crosses, but no one gave it a look. Because that's an expression of spirits, demons, maybe subconscious.

“It's break time, right? ”

The rabbit looked at the clock and said, Autumn felt like there would be some kind of planner in the watch the rabbit was looking at.

“Can I go out for a while? ”

The director who was talking to the designer told me to relax and come here. In the fall, he grabbed the hem of his skirt that was drawn to the floor and went out behind the set. The rabbit walked as if he knew this building very well. As I followed, I arrived at the end of the third floor hallway. An elongated chair with vending machines, water purifiers, and synthetic leather everywhere. People are invisible. Just a few steps away from the office is crowded, and it's quiet as if an invisible wall has fallen. The rabbit jumps on the chair. Before the fall, I pulled out a glass of cocoa. I had to avoid sugar, but now I thought I needed something sweet.

“It looks good on you. As expected, you're a pale blue lineage. ”

The rabbit said, "Autumn put down the cup and looked at the rabbit." It was a rabbit who said the right thing more often than compliments. He rarely complimented me with a salutation.

“Thank you. Your tux looks great, too. ”

“Black suits me better than white. ”

The rabbit slightly raises the suit vest with its front foot. I thought I could catch it with round feet for a moment.

“I haven't seen him in a while. What's going on?”

I took a sip of cocoa and asked. The sweetness flows into my mouth, and my body spreads like a soak in hot water. I laughed by myself.

“I was wondering how you were doing. ”

“Where have you been? I thought you were always next to me. ”

“I have my reasons, too. ”

The rabbit frowned and said. The red eyes sweep through the ceiling and come down to the floor. Something was wrong with the rabbit today. I picked it up and said it was very different than usual. I didn't warn him like a teacher, and I didn't look at him like he was stuffy. It seemed like the best time to come halfway to appease him.

“Is something wrong? ”

It was hard not to ask. Even though I don't like the rabbit, it's true he helped me a lot. With the exception of the floor related work, the rabbit always provided a reasonable and proper direction. I was able to give you a worrying counseling session. I wonder how much help I can be to a metaphysical being.

“Do you know the story of Scrooge the Shocker? ”

The rabbit said.

“You probably don't know that story. ”

“What were your thoughts as you read it? ”

“Why do you ask that all of a sudden? ”

“Just. I've been reading it for a long time, Scrooge. ”

Then the rabbit said, "You can stop if you don't want to talk." Autumn looks at the ears of the sagging rabbit for a while and opens his mouth.

“I loved that story. So I've read it a few times. I've looked at the original translations of the manuscripts and all the different types of materials for children. Every time I read it, I thought that Scrooge was as kind and loyal as any man. ”

“You mean your friend Mali? ”

“Yeah. It's in a novel. Friendship was so strong that seven years later, the company was named after a friend. So Marley must have found Scrooge on Christmas Eve and warned him. You can't be like you. ”

“Ghosts of the past, present and future. ”

The rabbit looked at the clock while speaking. Autumn wanted to see what the watch looked like, but the rabbit quickly put it in its arms. It was a firm expression that I would not show.

“You think the ghosts are Scrooge himself? ”

The rabbit's bite opened its eyes wide in the fall. There were times when it was like this. Just as the rabbit was able to enter deep in his heart from time to time, he wondered what he had not said out of his mouth. Well, since it's already out of common sense, it's reading people's minds. If it's unconscious, it's natural to know what you're thinking.

“That's right. I don't think the ghosts are some kind of time fairy living on a special mission, but rather Scrooge himself. I don't know what the writer's intentions are, but I like it better. In the end, his fate must be changed. ”

“Time Paradox, you know? ”

“Scrooge, too. Don't you think you're being silly? I did my homework. Even if you can't study, it's a common sense ship. ”

“Wouldn't it be a little weird if Scrooge existed in the past, present and future? If that changes the future, where do the ghosts go? What ghosts, past and present, represented Scrooge's unfortunate future? If it were Scrooge himself, what would it be like when he escaped from an unfortunate future? ”

It was an unknown question of intent. The rabbit and himself were not members of the reading board. I have never deeply dug into this kind of question. Fall continued to worry about the rabbit's pocket watch. The beginning of the question seemed to be lurking within the clock.

“What do you think? ”

The rabbit looks straight at the conversation for the first time. I didn't open my mouth easily. The red eyes seemed desperate.

“Well, to be honest, I don't know. I believed the story was a happy ending, and I didn't think about anything else. But wouldn't everyone be happy to answer that? Digging deep into the time paradox will complicate the story, but I don't want to worry about it. I just want to enjoy the story and accept it. ”

I looked into the rabbit's eyes. I couldn't read any emotions. Whether the answer is satisfactory or not. An awkward silence roamed the halls. The autumn glances at an empty cup. The black powder that sticks to the inside of the cup because it does not melt into the water told me that there was warm cocoa there a little while ago.

What did the rabbit want to say? Did he want to say he was a ghost from the future? That was a contradiction. The rabbit said something that provoked pride to keep it away from the floor. In the novel, ghosts have come to lead Scrooge on the right path to a miserable end. According to this logic, separation from the floor means a way out of the bad-end. The fall was unacceptable. I thought it was best to love a person and sometimes fight and cry because of him, but to be able to spend the same time with them. Separating a single page from his life was a terrible end, equivalent to the lonely death Scrooge was supposed to face. What does a rabbit really want? No matter how much I thought about it, there was no answer.

“It's time. ”

The rabbit rises and disappears, cracked in gold. The rabbit wears round glasses wherever it is taken out.

“Alice in Wonderland? ”

Glasses, watch, rabbit, suit. In fact, I've been thinking about Alice ever since I was in a suit. The rabbit slowly climbs down under the chair. And I sang a nostril. It was a familiar but totally different song. In the fall, I watched him. A rabbit hovering around the vending machine in a musical joyful movement, moving back and forth on a marble tile, stopped right in front of it. It was a very short time, but autumn was as exciting as seeing a musical for the first time in his life. I wanted to stand up and applaud. I clapped my hands a few times. The rabbit greeted the compliment as if it were familiar. I felt the fluorescent lights shining down the hallway turned into spotlights.

The rabbit raises his head. The mouth of the rabbit opened first, as I was about to tell you that it was great. It was calmer and slower than ever.

“I'm a bunny. A misguided guide who takes Alice to the fantasy world. That fascinating world is so dramatic. It's all happening. It's all rage. But when she wakes up, it'll be over. So Alice would never... ”

The rabbit disappears. Autumn glances down the hallway. Soon the crowd came. I hear voices asking me if I'm free. Autumn leaves with a smile. What did the rabbit want to say in the end? It was an unsolvable problem.

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Thanksgiving.

Bon voyage!

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