[Canon is The Prisoner (2009)]

[number1112]

Mun, really? I had enough trouble with one 6. Why would you want me to meet another one?

I'd rather not see anyone that has anything to do with the Village. Any Village.

.... But that won't stop you from being happy to find someone, will it.

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[number1112]

... Yes.

You're 6... but not 6.

[be_seeing_you]

You know another?

[Not the same one that is present in that city Nautilus he wonders.]

[number1112]

Yes. Which is strange since usually our names are unique. It's the ones with word names that share them.

[be_seeing_you]

Unique? That is not a word or concept that I would have thought had any place in The Village. Or have things changed since last I was there?

[number1112]

What was it like when you were there?

[be_seeing_you]

Full of people who were appallingly cheerful for having had their lives stripped of meaning.

[number1112]

And you questioned the meaning of it?

[be_seeing_you]

Would you not?

[That's a yes.]

[number1112]

I did but I didn't like the answers.

[be_seeing_you]

And what were the answers?

[number1112]

That none of it was real. That I didn't really exist.

[be_seeing_you]

That doesn't make any sense at all. Of course you exist, how else could I be speaking with you now?

[number1112]

It's complicated.

And it's different here. Here, anything is possible.

[be_seeing_you]

[He answers that with a nasal "hmmph." Complicated indeed.]

It sounds very much like my current situation in Nautilus.

[number1112]

But you're out of the Village.

[be_seeing_you]

Out, but never free. My mundane has seen to that.

[number1112]

That's... sad. I'm sorry.

Oh, and I'm 11-12.

[be_seeing_you]

I never asked for your pity.

[He scowls]

My designation , whilst imprisoned, was Number 6. But you already knew that. Tell me, do you like being numbered?

[number1112]

Designation.... I guess that's what it was for all or most of the other people in The Village. They had real names in the real world.

But it's all I knew. 11-12 is my only name and I do like it. It still seems a little strange to me that people have word names, even though I've been out for about four years or so now.

[be_seeing_you]

You were born in The Village?

[To his knowledge, such things were not allowed to happen in his version of The Village.]

[number1112]

Yes. Well, in a way since I wasn't technically born at all.

My father is 2.

I think you know... others named 2.

[be_seeing_you]

I've know a great many Number 2's. But none that were fatherly.

Do the Number 2's in your Village come and go as frequently as in mine? [Or is it just Number 6's fault that they get sacked?]

[number1112]

There's only one 2. I haven't seen any others.

[be_seeing_you]

Then truly your Village is much different from mine. I have seen many come and go.

[number1112]

If my father left then... I suppose there'd be no point in my existence. The Village is my home.

Or was. I'm grateful that my mun found ways to get me out of there.