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

[soverainty]

Oh!

[She notices Mizuki probably like, looking this way or staring at the cake or whatever other cue she's getting -- Niko's pretty good at noticing things like that.

The other girl gets a welcoming smile.]

I haven't touched this other slice, if you want it. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to eat it all, but you're not supposed to put food back...

[Putting her hands together to ask for help!!]

[ballooncaged]

[AI has an examine object feature that you can spam multiple times for increasingly silly responses of the character just staring at the object so there you go.

Mizuki pulls up a seat, sighing in gratitude and relief.]

You're also not supposed to skip three meals a day, and I guess a lot of us are close to that by now.

[soverainty]

[To be perfectly fair sudden videogame mechanics make about as much sense as anything else around here or, in fact, anything happening in Niko's canon. Combine the two and having someone do that weird twitchy motion where a character's head bobs back and forth because you keep pressing A and they keep going back to staring into space seems about as logical as you can get. ☆

Complete tangents aside, Niko's just going to obligingly push a slice of the cherry cake towards her! True to her word it's pristine and even already has a fork arranged with it.

She's going to get busy pouring tea too, because that's how she do.]

They do have a space to feed us, at least. I found it while I was looking for the exit, but I guess it's true that the meals are timed...

[ballooncaged]

Oooh...

[This fork is even at a cute angle! Mizuki feels no guilt about the cake. There's whole fruit in it, it's fine.]

I guess when you look at it that way, then starting tomorrow we should get used to the regular meal times. [Smile fading.] Even though staying overnight is creepy.

[soverainty]

[They've been through a lot, so sweets therapy is certainly the least they could be indulging in.]

Mm, it's not too different from being in school. Ah, I go to a boarding school, so a meal schedule is pretty normal. It depends on what they think of as meals.

[Well, maybe that's where she got her manners. Either way, she doesn't seem to be complaining about getting dessert first of all. There's a moment or two where she contemplates her bite of cake, pops it in and then just thinks over it for a moment.]

But at least we'll all be together in the starting area when we sleep.

[ballooncaged]

Oh, that makes sense. At my school we just have lunch together... Is it overseas?

[One of the common reasons to have a boarding school. Either way, she's envisioning all kinds of fancy things like enormous pots of breakfast stew.]

The castle's shape kind of stands out once you walk around it, huh? There's not exactly a lot of emergency exits. Most rooms only go one direction. [In the sense that there's a front door and a back door, but not a left door or a right door.]