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voidtreckerexpress2020-04-11 01:46 pm
knifewithnoname) wrote in voidtreckerexpress2020-04-11 01:46 pm
A return
Who: Little One and Open
Where: Luggage, Cabin 1:C and then throughout the train
When: Egret, day 21
What: Little One wakes up in a suitcase and then investigates any changes in her time away
Warnings:
Waking: Luggage
This had happened to her before. A voice from the screens and then waking up in a suitcase. But this time she had been on the mission and now she was here.
Why? Why had they taken her off the mission? She had been doing well. She had figured out the stupid space ships and the guns. But she had still disappeared and was back in a suitcase. She sat up with a sigh and looked around, instincts kicking in. Checking for danger, for people, for anyone who was too close.
Once she decided it was safe she clambered out and moved towards the exit. She paused near the door to bring up the ICP and click onto the passenger list. New people. Some names missing. She did her best to commit them to memory. She checked the day, she had been gone a while. Longer than last time. Most people were still here though. That was good.
Cabin 1, C
The first place she headed to was her room. She still had the bag she had carried on the mission and she wanted to put it down before she went elsewhere. She headed to her room quickly and opened the door with a wave of her ticket. It was strange that things that had seemed so strange only months ago now felt familiar.
She entered, planning just to throw her bag onto her bag and get changed out of the flight suit and into trousers and a hoodie.
Throughout the train
She is headed to the kitchen, as she's pretty hungry but not so hungry that she isn't going to investigate the train as she goes. Checking up on people she knows, watching them from a distance. She takes note of new people, doing her best to match their faces to the pictures she had seen on the ICP. It's difficult though, there are a lot of new people to keep track of.
But she watches, listening and taking in everything she sees as she makes her way from carriage to carriage.
Where: Luggage, Cabin 1:C and then throughout the train
When: Egret, day 21
What: Little One wakes up in a suitcase and then investigates any changes in her time away
Warnings:
Waking: Luggage
This had happened to her before. A voice from the screens and then waking up in a suitcase. But this time she had been on the mission and now she was here.
Why? Why had they taken her off the mission? She had been doing well. She had figured out the stupid space ships and the guns. But she had still disappeared and was back in a suitcase. She sat up with a sigh and looked around, instincts kicking in. Checking for danger, for people, for anyone who was too close.
Once she decided it was safe she clambered out and moved towards the exit. She paused near the door to bring up the ICP and click onto the passenger list. New people. Some names missing. She did her best to commit them to memory. She checked the day, she had been gone a while. Longer than last time. Most people were still here though. That was good.
Cabin 1, C
The first place she headed to was her room. She still had the bag she had carried on the mission and she wanted to put it down before she went elsewhere. She headed to her room quickly and opened the door with a wave of her ticket. It was strange that things that had seemed so strange only months ago now felt familiar.
She entered, planning just to throw her bag onto her bag and get changed out of the flight suit and into trousers and a hoodie.
Throughout the train
She is headed to the kitchen, as she's pretty hungry but not so hungry that she isn't going to investigate the train as she goes. Checking up on people she knows, watching them from a distance. She takes note of new people, doing her best to match their faces to the pictures she had seen on the ICP. It's difficult though, there are a lot of new people to keep track of.
But she watches, listening and taking in everything she sees as she makes her way from carriage to carriage.
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"It did be happening to me before, but then I did always be being on the train, I did just be disappearing and be being in the luggage carriage and I did be missing some days."
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"It shouldn't do that to you," she says with quite some conviction. "What use is it even to make you disappear like that? It will just make the people who care about you worry."
And she's pretty sure there have to be a lot of those. Buttercup seems like a very likeable girl.
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Even if it wasn't her fault!
"Sometimes people do no even be coming back, they do be leaving the train and they do no even be saying goodbye."
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"You mean he cried?" Alice may not know who Peter is - as she doesn't bother to remember the names of most people here on the train, really - but at least it's obvious why he must have done that. "That just means you have people here who care about you."
She manages to say it without resentment. Alice is used to people not caring about her, but she'd never carry a grudge towards anyone who's stuck in the opposite position. If anything, it's good that there's people caring for such a young kid.
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"He do be going leaky eyed over lots of things. He would be being sad if anyone did be leaving or dying. That do just be being how he do be being."
Weak.
Which was such a strange thing because he was so strong in other ways.
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It sounds mostly like a neutral observation. Because it is. Alice feels like she doesn't really have the right to judge anyone about whether they cry or not. She's cried, after all, although she prefers to not do it anywhere someone can see her. That's too much vulnerability on display.
"But from the way you make it sound, you aren't."
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She had cried, obviously. But not in a long time. It was a wasteful activity and not something she had time for.
Alice didn't seem like the person who went leaky faced either. She seemed sensible and strong.
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But giving a child the advice to cry feels much too hypocritical. Especially since Buttercup might just be in a situation where she can't afford to. Like during one of these missions, for example, if she's not one to hang back.
She takes another bite from her sandwich as she seems to consider it before replying. "You're a strong child." That much is obvious. Maybe a little too strong. "Don't make too much fun of others for crying though. They can't help it. Unless they're being completely ridiculous, then it's fair game."
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Especially if they couldn't be helping it. She sighed, "I did be trying to be teaching Peter how to no be trying but he did be getting all scrunch faced."
Peter was stupid sometimes, all the time. But he was her friend.
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Especially since it sounds like the girl has little patience for those kinds of emotional things. Which Alice can understand to a certain extent, honestly.
"But if he truly cries as much as you're saying, it might just be a natural kind of reaction to him. In that case it can't be helped much. Some people are just raised that way."
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"Maybe it do be being, I do no be thinking he can be helping it. He can be being very brave sometimes too."
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After all, Alice can't even imagine how people who are easily scared or cry a lot of the time deal with the missions they have to go on. At least Alice herself has very little trouble with the violence aspect of them.
"Only cowering and crying during these missions wouldn't do anyone any good, after all."
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She figured if you cried during the missions you would just get yourself dead, which would be stupid.
"How did you be finding the mission? Space do be being weird."
Alice isn't a leaky eyed baby, so she isn't worried about that aspect of things.
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Which is saying a lot, considering the stuff Alice has seen. But for as strange as Wonderland was, it never quite involved space..
"But I suppose it wasn't exactly impossible to adjust to it. And honestly, it was a slight relief to finally be able to fight people without there being consequences for it." It's not.. really something she would share with any random child, but considering Buttercup seems interested in weapons and thinks crying is weird, she figures it's probably appropriate enough in this case. "It's quite vexing to think you might get half of the train on your back just for punishing someone who deserves it." Yes, someone is still annoyed she couldn't just chuck Zetta off the platform! She'll forever be salty.
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"Who did you be trying to punishing?"
Who had angered her? She can imagine her anger is great and she would be good at punishing people. If people here were not so stupid about it.
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Did Zetta even introduce himself? If he had given a name, Alice is just willingly choosing to ignore it by now. People that annoying and awful don't deserve being remembered properly. She frowns with obvious disgust as she says the words.
"I was contemplating at the very least tossing him across the platform for his reckless and insulting chatter, but the thought of what I might have had to deal with for it afterwards was already too tiring by itself."
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She hadn't actually had any run ins with the book, though she was aware he was around. He seemed to serve chaos though and she could respect that.
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An ideal situation would for sure involve making Zetta suffer for what he's done, but considering how many situations in Alice's life have been much less than passable, she will take this much.
"But I won't stand for my actions the next time that thing tries to do something. It'll be on him then."
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Not that it really matters, chaos is chaos and books are stupid.
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Alice is not one of those people. In fact, it seems to make her annoyance fade a little, her expression instead ending up very close to a smile. It's almost there.
"Thank you, that's very kind of you. I'll be sure to let you know if things do end up that way."
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She liked Alice, she would be glad to help her with any of her problems.