BETA ROUND 1 WEEK 4: RETURNING TO THE HUB

[worldkeys]

Who: The White Rabbit and the Alices.
What: Ken's World has concluded, and everyone is probably in awful shape. Surgeries sure are fun. As are vivisections!
Where: The World Hub.
Warnings: Probably talk of what went on, potentially violence knowing this lot. A lot of broken down people, maybe.

The White Rabbit seems exceptionally cheerful once they finally return, not at all the usual picture of impatience he tends to be.

"At last, we have only three World Keys left to get. His and his, and hers," he says, motioning to Lalli, a certain General, and Harley. "This is wonderful. Would that we could only be able to retrieve them at once... alas, we must continue as we have. A shame he ended up out here, but I see it served you well."

He nods to Sasuke.

"I am confident you all can retrieve the other three and return home."

He seems completely oblivious to the suffering you all have endured, it seems.

Comments

[miseris_socios]

Of course not. I'm not an idiot.

['Sup, Cat.]

[patchworkcat]

Water's not gonna help, either. Not this smell. Since that seems t' be what you're concerned with.

[ Noooot gonna help at all. ]

[miseris_socios]

[Okay, now a flash of annoyance breaks through the masking apathy.]

Reading minds is rude, fluffball.

[patchworkcat]

Don't really care, Alice. But do you really think bathin' a corpse helps with the smell?

[ He is a cat. Cats do not give a single fuck. ]

[miseris_socios]

It wouldn't hurt.

[patchworkcat]

Nah, it'd just make it worse. Ever smell a wet corpse? It just makes it rot a different way.

[miseris_socios]

I have, actually. ... So does that mean you're dead?

[patchworkcat]

Yup! Been dead a good, long time! Had a right good death, too.

[ He's so proud of you Ken. ]

[miseris_socios]

[Part of him wants to start screaming 'why do you get to live after dying and not so many other people?'. But that part's only a small part against the larger apathy that he's trying to fight.]

I guess if I poked you with a spear, you might not bleed. ... But I'm not stupid enough to do that after what you did to her.

[patchworkcat]

[ ...That grin on his face becomes absolutely wicked. He can see and hear those thoughts loud and clear. ]

...Hey, Alice. Who says I get to live at all?

[miseris_socios]

You live enough to take our things, to speak and taunt us, and to kill. Even if this is some kind of shared dream world, that doesn't make this place not real, so on some level it's something you are doing. That's more than I can say for them.

[patchworkcat]

[ The Cat just laughs and laughs and laughs at that. ]

Alice... If you knew what being me entailed, you wouldn't wish it on even your worst enemy. Mweehee!

[ But that seems to be all he's giving, because with a blink and a meow he's gone. ]