WEEK 4

[whimsicalism]

Even as the castle--is it even right to consider as a 'castle'?--continues to grow more accessible more of the group is whittled away. Even your own memories fade as the Alices continue their 'game'. As the new nautically themed area opens new residents of the castle seem to have appeared. A family of living dolls has moved themselves into the dining hall while a lovesick apple tree familiar from Friday seems to have taken root in the garden. Along with the graveyard in floor three the Alices seem to want you to remember your fallen friends in some very... different ways.

Maybe the upcoming holiday will distract the Alices from moving their game along? Only time will tell.

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[Welcome to Week 4! Don't forget to submit your memory losses and your weekly AC here. The Alices can be found in their audience hall. As always, don't forget to turn in threads forfabulous prizes.]

Comments

[octopups]

Um, fission is when one person has too many members and so their mind gets too big, and they decide it would be better to be two people instead. [Or something like that. Amdi's never done it he's just been told about it in his equivalent of health class.]

But... [A couple of him walk up and nuzzle her legs a little.] I know how you feel. About being lonely. I was... really, really lonely, before Jefri came.

[twinverses]

Oh! So it's how new... um, tines group up, right? [She thinks. Alice is a naive girl and maybe not as smart as some here but that seems... kind of clear. Maybe? She's not sure. She smiles down at him and kneels again.]

...Yeah. It's hard to be lonely. I couldn't talk to many of the people I saw. It was like I was behind a curtain and they couldn't see or hear me. [Touching his head she closes her eyes briefly.] I think.. I wasn't the only one like that. It was nice finding people like me.

[octopups]

Yeah, usually. A lot of packs assemble out of unrelated members though. [In the past he would have said most packs, before he found out how... unorthodox... Steel and the Movement were. He droops at the thought and snuggles her more.]

That... kind of sounds like how I grew up. Tines can't be too close to each other, so the grown-ups just talked to me from the balconies and never came down. But... at least I had people to talk to.

[He presses the head up into her hand and makes a deliberate comforting buzz, like a purring cat.]

[twinverses]

[She giggles slightly at the buzzing on her hand. Then stopped because she wasn't laughing at him, of course.]

Mm... that sounds like the hospital, really. The adults there ignored me. They didn't talk to me at all. All they cared about was -- [She grimaces.] Well, hospitals are evil places. Wonderland was lonely but it wasn't painful. I felt like I could do what I want so I started calling myself Alice.

[octopups]

Hmph. That's really rude of them to ignore you. Most of the people in the rest of the castle didn't talk to us a lot either, but I think that's because I was with Jefri all the time then and he's a human so they were nervous of him.

[He nuzzles her some more.]

I'm glad you found someplace better. You even took a new taken name! That's really cool.

[twinverses]

I think I know why they didn't. It's hard to talk to someone who doesn't talk back. [Her mind seems to wander a bit before she focuses back.] Friends are good!

Mm. I did. I thought since I was in a new, weird place I'd call myself Alice after the stories.