All Hail the Queen

[whimsicalism]

[An hour passes in this strange place. There's silence for a few moments. Then loud talking starts.]

They don't seem to like me... [A young girl's voice, timid and small despite the fact that everyone can hear her.]

Does it matter? If we act like the sun or the north wind, it's no skin off our backs. [A second voice answers... the same voice? Could she just be talking to herself?] You are the Queen. All ways are your ways.

Yes. Alice is the Queen.

[At this statement, the doors quickly open. As the Queen's note said there's a large table filled with tea and sweets in the middle of the audience hall. There's even chairs for everyone. Far from the ground on an balcony is a large throne. On the throne is a young girl, with a small fluffy cat in her lap. The girl smiles briefly.]

I'm Alice the Queen.

[The cat jumps on the railing of the balcony to stare dispassionately at the gathered group before jumping on the throne herself. Within a few seconds a copy of the Queen is sitting next to her, dressed in black.]

And I'm Alice the Chesire Cat. Welcome to our Castle. [There's a dryness to the Cat's voice that is missing from the Queen's.]

I'm sure we can answer your questions! Come, it's time for Alice's Tea Party! Let's begin, Alice.

[Welcome to Wonderland.]

((OOC: It's alright to still respond to the IC intro post and there will backtagging from myself in this post if needed.))

Comments

[twinverses]

Are you sure you want to do that?

[undershadow]

Gee, let me think. Go home to my friends, or stay in the giant murder castle? Yeah, it's a real toss-up.

[twinverses]

Then kill someone and get away with it. It's easy.

[undershadow]

See, when I called it the murder castle, the implication was that that's negative, actually? So, no.

[ There's a decided pause before she continues. ]

What about our families?

[twinverses]

Everything and everyone are in their proper places. I left them where they were.

[undershadow]

But you took us. What happens when they notice we're missing? Because believe me, my aunt's going to catch on.

[twinverses]

They can do whatever they want.

We don't care! Besides, your aunt-- [Alice the Cat breaks her off.]

Can go jump into an oven! That's the place for old witches.

[undershadow]

[ You know how sometimes you say something and know even as it's leaving your mouth that it's the wrong thing to say, and then you get to watch it demonstrably being the wrong thing to say in the next two seconds? That's where she's at right now! ]

I mean, you're not wrong.

[twinverses]

[Look, they might be magic but old witchy aunts are something they can agree are bad news.]

Besides, I'm not afraid of her. She can't get here, anyway. No adult can.