( colligo ¬ get collected ) → network.

My fridge now makes ice and has a radio. I don't know how he does these things. Almost everything in my apartment has been upgraded in one way or another. Don't get me wrong, some of it is pretty cool; I mean he built a waffle iron. Who just builds a waffle iron? I've always been pretty tech savvy, but I could never just build something from scratch like Forge. It's actually really fascinating.

This is not what I expected.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. Waking up in bed with a beautiful girl is much more heaven like than my last experience. But still. Confusing.

Anyone want to tell me how I got here and maybe where here is?

Quiet. It's too quiet. So quiet it's louder than anything. That's a paradox. Quiet can't be loud except when it is. I don't like it here. The ground feels wrong. It's too steady but everything's shifting. It makes my head hurt. I need to be in the black. It's too solid here. Loud where it should be quiet and quiet where it should be loud. This is why you aren't supposed to meddle with things.

They meddle. They always meddle. Shouldn't meddle, but they do. Can't leave well enough and it all turns to dust and ash. Picking and picking. Tearing at the threads until it all comes apart. Just apple bits left. You aren't supposed to play with things like this. Threads are invisible, but they're stronger than steel and they'll choke you if you aren't careful. We're stuck. Tethered. A different center of gravity. Tried to leave but it hurt. Clawing in my brain like tiny pinching fingers. Digging in and stabbing with little knives.

Not safe. It's not safe to wander off alone, he says. But how can you wander when there's no one to wander from? Logical fallacies and paradoxes. Wandered because he isn't here, but can't wander because there isn't anyone to wander from. I'd follow the breadcrumbs back but there aren't any. The birds ate them all. They'll get stomachaches.

This place is very strange. I'm not sure I can get used to it.

( Filtered to Damon )

This seriously needs to end. Now. Not that Bella isn't the most accident prone person ever in the history of time great and all, but I want to be alone with my husband.

( Filtered to Edward Cullen )

Is there someone in Colligo who can officiate wedding ceremonies?

[Filtered to Alice Cullen]

Even though Bella and I apparently got married back home in the not so distant future, I would still like us to marry here and actually be in attendance at my own wedding ceremony. How do you feel about planning another wedding?