but as I told you... I didn't chase the white rabbit!

[heartgatherer]

Who: The Alices and Clock
What: Open the first door and see what you find. Hopefully it's a key... maybe it's something more.
Where: World One - The Country of Clover
Warnings: General violence and disregard for life.

 '▒▒▒▒▒, you fool... it was all just a dream'...

If she could have thought that to herself, then she might have believed it. Here were the high vaulted ceilings of Clover Tower that she'd grown so used to since the shift to the Country of Clover. And yet her name was still lost to her. She could not think it... could not say it... It was as though someone had stolen it entirely, as odd of a thing as that sounded. That was all she needed to know to prove she wasn't dreaming. Then that meant it was as the rabbit and cat said-- in order to retrieve the rabbit's keys, they needed to enter the doors and the door took them straight into peoples' hearts.

This one no doubt was supposed to be her own. How else could this place be replicated so accurately? None of the others should know a thing about Wonderland. After all... this was her dream. Her messed-up, embarrassing, dangerous... oh no.

Outside the window the forest, the castle and the Hatter Mansion were all as they should be. But what had happened to the others? If they had been split up, there was no telling what manner of characters they might have met. While they should be safe as Outsiders, Clover has never seen any other Outsiders. Like this, there's no way to be sure they're safe.

Whatever's happened - this is no time to be sleeping. She needs to verify what's going on in this world and the whereabouts of the people that entered with her. If this was a true and accurate reflection of the world that she knew, then she needed to warn them of a great many things.

Down the tower stairs she goes... to investigate the fate of herself and those who had gone with her.

Comments

[zinit]

[Qilby has his own attachments, sure, but he can't help the amusement that rises in him hearing someone else's. Ah, mortals: their fleeting connections; their simple, yet strangely complicated loves. He'd have found it interesting, were this a different time and place.]

[Still, he approaches with the same gentle, ??wise?? smile he always wears. (It's an easy act to slip into, though he doesn't remember a time when he was... Shit, that's concerning, but less concerning than the ticking in his chest. It will hit him like a train later.) Gently, he starts:]

Someone from home? [He seems almost wistful when he says:] It's easy to miss special people in a place like this, isn't it.

[dolosa]

No, he's not someone from home.

[ Fingers run through her hair as she matches his smile with one of her own. It's so easy to pretend that she has any sort of emotion when she's dead inside. ]

And I can't say I miss him, either.

[zinit]

[A two-faced old man and a two-faced teenage girl walk into a garden... How's that joke supposed to end?]

Ah, so it's like that. [Someone she feels loyal to, perhaps, though not out of any sense of caring? How gross. What's more interesting is the implication...] You've had the fortune to visit another world before this, then?

[dolosa]

Hmmm.

[ Pressing her lips together, she hums inquisitively. It's true that she doesn't miss Hajime, but she isn't sure if that's just because she's missing the proper emotion to miss him or perhaps she just believes there's no reason to. It's difficult to tell, really, but she could honestly care less. ]

I had asked to be brought back to Hajime's world after that game was over -- so. It happened.

[zinit]

[Is she one of those types of women who denies their feelings, despite acting in a way that clearly indicates they have feelings? Does she just have some sort of loyalty? Huh.]

A game like this one, or another? [A little chuckle.] Forgive me; I'm just curious. Of all the worlds I've seen, I've never seen one quite like this.

[dolosa]

[ Is she tsundere... no.... in fact, she's just being completely open. Perhaps maybe too open. ]

Different. [ Still murder. But different. ] Then again, that game I played was when I died. But then Anna got rid of that game, so nobody plays it in that world now.