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[madcuriosity]

Who: Alice Liddell (the little) and YOU
Where: Kitchen and all over save the sleeper cabins
When: Grasshopper Day 2 through 3
What: Alice, being a Victorian child with a pretty terrible immune system, gets hit by symptoms of Voidsickness
Warnings: Hallucinations, fatigue, mild memory loss


A: And if you go chasing rabbits and you know you're going to fall [All over]

Alice was rather sure she kept seeing him. Just there and when she would turn her head to look at him properly, he would dash from her view, rather rudely, she thought to herself. Before he had the decency to at least acknowledge her before he left.

But he was always just there at the corner of her eye. She wanted to see him properly, speak to him, she'd call out but he was gone.

So Alice did what Alice does best where the White Rabbit was concerned, she chased after him. She called out to him, finally, she could see him. His little white tail peeking out from one carriage to the next. Goodness, how much faster he had gotten!

Now, the thing to know is that running indoors is never a wise decision, truly, Alice knew that. And running indoors in a narrow space such as a train is even less advisable, something Alice knew very well, in addition to the first fact. But Alice was quite set on getting the White Rabbit. Maybe he could tell her how to get everyone out of here because if HE was here then perhaps they could, at the very least, get to Wonderland, and she knew well how to escape from THERE.

In all her running though, Alice was only focusing on the white rabbit, which meant, when she slammed smack into another person, she could only topple to the floor, completely surprised.

"I'm terribly sorry," she managed to get out first as she sat up, a bit achy but otherwise fine. "I didn't mean to run into you. But did you happen to see him?" she asked, looking at who she had run into, feeling more tired than usual.

B: When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead [Kitchen]

Alice was in the kitchen when the accident occurred, though the incident was perhaps a better word if you asked her.

She was staring at a second batch of ruined cookie batter, and trying, with not the best of success, to not get upset. Eventually, though, as she began to pull out the ingredients and measure everything again, in a very rare fit of anger she shoved the entire mixing bowl away from her, and then winced at the thing slammed into the mixing cups and measuring bowls before it clattered to the floor, spilling the contents all over the floor.

"Oh no, no no no!"

C: And your mind is moving low go ask Alice [All over]

She was just so terribly tired.

At first she didn't notice it, no one really made her get up and doing anything but she found herself taking all sorts of small little naps throughout the day. And then she would just be too exhausted to do anything besides stare out a window, which was a problem because Dinah very much needed feeding and taking care of.

But she was just... so tired.

She set Dinah down on the ground, not even able to get up the energy to carry her.

She just wanted to sleep some more, and really every surface looked so wonderfully inviting.

So Alice could be found on the floor in the middle of a pathway, under a table, spread out across several chairs, underneath the shade of several potted plants, aatop the larger pieces of luggage, truly, anywhere, as she tried to just get a bit more sleep. Maybe then she wouldn't feel so tired, maybe her world would be a little less dizzy.

Dinah, her little kitty, for her part, meowed and gently pawed at Alice every time the seven-year-old decided it was time for another nap, trying to get her mistress awake, or at the very least, to sleep in her own bed.

Comments

C

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea had thought Alice had been acting a little weird lately. Though given the events of not too long ago he supposed he couldn't blame her for feeling a little off or doing a bit more pretending, so he'd tried to be polite about it. But sleeping in the middle of the middle of the music coach's floor, with her cat pawing at her like that? Yeah, that was definitely cause for concern.

Lea crouched down next to her and gave her shoulder a gentle shake. "Alice?", he said. "Alice, are you alright?"

[madcuriosity]

Alice took a deep breath and struggled to open her eyes. She took another deep breath and contemplated sitting up but lying down was a bit easier right now.

"M'fine Mr. Lea," she mumbled, closing her eyes. "Just... tired."

[hotheadwarmheart]

Lea frowned worriedly. "If you're so tired that you're passing out on the music coach's floor, then you're not fine," he said. "I'm going to take you down to medical, just to be safe, alright? You can nap there if you need to."

[madcuriosity]

"Mnn," was all she could really manage to get out as an argument. She shook her head... which was a mistake because she wobbled from the sudden dizziness of the action.

"M-Mr. Lea I'm alright. The medical car... is for... real emergencies... not naps."

B

[sos_pilot]

"Hey, what's all the noise about-"

That's when the floor was lost to her. Della let out a startled "WAK" as both her good and metal leg moved this way and that - having such different legs made this slip all the worse. She finally landed on her back, wincing, as it made a nasty twinge on her "bad leg" where metal met flesh.

"... Okay, I think that was a crash not even Launchpad would like."

[madcuriosity]

"Ms. Della!" she swallowed. "I-I am so sorry!" she hurried over to her and crouched down. "I... I didn't mean to, I-I'll clean it up."

[sos_pilot]

"It's okay, it's okay." She then offered her hand to Della. "I just might need some help getting up, all right?"

[madcuriosity]

"Oh yes, of course, of course," she took Della's wing to help her stand.

"Are you sure you're alright?"

A - the 3rd!

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita froze briefly, before kneeling to support Alice and hopefully help her up.

"Might help if you explained who you meant by 'he', but... maybe?"

It's a crowded train! Until or unless Alice explains, Nita can give her the benefit of the doubt.

[madcuriosity]

Alice took Nita's hand, standing up a bit shakily.

"Mr. Rabbit. He's... I just saw him. He was going that way," she gestured the way she had been running.

"He's not a very big rabbit, but he's an all-white rabbit with pink eyes. He wears a vest and waistcoat. He usually says that he's constantly late but right now he's not speaking at all."

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita's face falls.

"I'm sorry, Alice; I can't say I've seen him at all."

The only rabbit she's seen on board was Lan WangJi's. She wasn't going to count any rabbits currently in books or the Cinema...

"Wouldn't he have been on the Roster though if he was? I know I haven't met everyone who joined us this week."

[madcuriosity]

"I... I don't know. Maybe he found a way to sneak on like that monster shadow man. But I saw him. I know I did! I would know him anywhere! And if he's here, maybe he knows how we can all leave."

C

[soldier_blade]

She'd overdone it that day in the gym, and as a result, her left leg was especially huring, the ache throbbing so bad she wondered why the bones didn't pop out of her skin. Much as she hated the idea, she found herself having to use the wheel chair, taking it from the medical carriage, as well as an ice pack and book to read in her bunk.

Sonya had both in her lap as she made her way down the aisle fixed at going to her cabin, coming to a halt when she saw the little girl and her kitten.

The fuck was a child doing here-pulled away from home?

Carefully, she pushed herself forward, bending down to touch the girl's shoulder. "Hey..kiddo?" She gave her a slight shake, her voice soft. "You can't sleep here..you need a proper bed."

Biting back a grunt, she reached to touch her cheek and forehead with the back of her hand; she wasn't flushed, and her forehead wasn't especially warm, so that checked fever off the list.

[madcuriosity]

Trust her, Sonya, being on the train was not a choice. But that was neither here nor there. Alice struggled to open her eyes and sat up, everything slow and sluggish. She rubbed her eyes.

"I'm sorry," she reached up to fix her hair. "Just... tired, is all."

[soldier_blade]

She wouldn't expect her to be here willing (unless perhaps her parents are here as well) but that was a question for another time). More to the point, she looks tired to the point of appearing ill, and while her time with Cassie at that age was..sporadic..at best, Sonya recalled enough that kids only ever got that tired if something was wrong.

"I'll say," She tried to keep her voice light. "You just narrowly missed your bunk."

Thank god her arm was healed, or this would've been even more painful. "Which one's yours? You'll get better sleep on it than next to it."

[madcuriosity]

She shook her head, which was a mistake because the action instantly made her dizzy and a slight headache.

"I..." what was she going to say? "Mnn... I don't remember," she finally admitted, the knowledge of where she was staying completely gone.

B

[adropofsunlight]

Rapunzel had been spending the time in the kitchen, mostly in part because it was the chore for the Orange Team, but also because she wanted to try and learn new recipes and figure out how things worked more in this kitchen.

So for the most part she had left the other to try her best with making what she assumed was cookies, always doing her best to keep an eye out while she was working with carrots and trying to find new ways to use them.

But as she looked over she couldn't help but be worried and went over. "Hey, what's wrong?"

[madcuriosity]

"I..." she crouched down to start cleaning up her mess, her fist clenching and unflinching.

"I don't know why. I keep forgetting." She looked over to the princess. "This is the second batter I've ruined! I'll pull everything out and-and measure it. But it's... I FORGET and then add it AGAIN."

[adropofsunlight]

"You...forget. Like a moment of forgetfulness?" That was admittedly a little bit concerning if that is the case. She wondered if she should either help her out or make her go and see someone in the medical carriage because she wasn't quite sure her hair could fix that problem.

"If you keep forgetting should we take you to the medical car?"

B

[goingthroughaphase]

Coming by the kitchen to maybe practice a bit of cooking herself before starting on cleaning the kitchen as part of her team's chore, Kitty paused when she heard something clatter. As she took a look inside, she frowned when she noticed the mess.

And while she was maybe a bit annoyed that it meant more to clean up, she was more concerned by who else she saw.

"Alice?" she said. "Are you okay?"

[madcuriosity]

Alice sniffled and shook her head, crouching down with a rag in hand.

"No... No... I keep... I keep... messing up in the silliest way. I'll measure EVERYTHING Miss Kitty! I'll put out the eggs and flour and sugar and then I forget and add more! I must have wasted six eggs with the first batter because I just... I just kept forgetting I added them already and I did it again!"

Her memory has never been like this!

[goingthroughaphase]

There was something about Alice's words that nagged at the back of her mind, but it was hard to think about it while seeing the young girl so upset. Coming around and grabbing another rag, she knelt down to help her.

"Hey, it's okay," she said, trying to be soothing. "Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. That kind of thing happens to me all the time when I'm cooking."

A

[irrationally]

Alice doesn't even need to get up. The moment the younger girl is sitting up, she'll find two arms already around her - strong, yet with an odd gentleness to them - that lift her back up until she's back on her feet.

The older Alice lowers herself a little so she can be on a more even level with her younger counterpart. It's not quite like Alice to be running around like this, so there's definitely some worry that there's something going on.. but thankfully she manages to contain most of her worry to nothing more than a slight frown as she looks at the other girl.

"See who?"

[madcuriosity]

"Miss Alice! Miss Alice he's here! The White Rabbit! Mr. Rabbit, I saw him! He's here! I've been seeing him all day but he went-" she looked about to get her bearings and then gestured in the direction she was running.

"He went that way! And I don't remember seeing him on the platform so he must have found a way on here from Wonderland! We have to catch him so he can show us how to get to Wonderland and then everyone can go home!"

[irrationally]

"The Rabbit?"

Alice raises her eyebrows in surprise, though not total shock. It's not as if she doesn't treat her own rabbit plush as if it were the real live thing, after all, so the idea of the White Rabbit suddenly appearing here isn't something she'd immediately question.

She's not too sure if going to Wonderland or back home through there is as feasible, but.. well, it's not like she's going to let the younger girl run around by herself. She holds out her hand to offer it to the other Alice.

"I will come with you then." It's at least worth taking a look.