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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.

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Alice nodded, taking the older one's hand.

"I would know him anywhere, he didn't speak, he hasn't even bothered to claim he's late, but how many rabbits wear a waistcoat and vest with a pocket watch?"

She pointed in the direction she had been running. "He went this way, Miss Alice!"

The moment the younger Alice points in that direction, the older Alice starts to move. She isn't quite running, since she doesn't want to drag the other along like that, but she's making sure that her walking is pretty quick all the same. The Rabbit is quick, after all, and although there's limited space for him to go in this train, they can't afford to lose him.

"Perhaps he just happened to be on time for once," she says as she walks, making sure to keep looking around as she goes. She can't spot the familiar sight of the creature yet though.. "Do tell me if you happen to spot him ahead of me, alright?"

"Of course, Miss Alice, I promise," she was looking all around as well but didn't see him. She looked and then stopped, lightly tugging on the older girl's hand.

"Miss Alice," she whispered pointing near the door. Clear as day, to her, the White Rabbit was checking his pocket watch, lightly rubbing at one ear. "There- ah! Mr. Rabbit!" his ears perked up and, without so much as looking at her, Alice watched him leave. "Wait! Why is he leaving!"

.. oh no.

Sure, it would have been strange to actually see the White Rabbit here. Just slightly, since Alice really isn't used anymore to the idea of random people from Wonderland popping up after not having seen any on the train before. But it sure would have been a lot easier to bear than looking over to where the younger girl is pointing and seeing absolutely nothing.

Partially because of the implications it has about the younger's mind, but also since it almost feels like betrayal. Saying she can't see the Rabbit feels too much like the way all the grownups denied her own stories when she tried to tell them when she was little. They're supposed to be the same person. She can't be the one to let Alice down like that.

So she does keep walking in the direction the White Rabbit logically must have run off to while talking Alice along, but her heart is pounding in her chest. What does she do in this situation?

"Alice, when did you see him for the first time here?"

For how long has this been going on?

"Oh ah..." she had to think about it. When DID she see him first? "A few days ago, I think... I... I would see him just at the corner of my eye but I would turn my head and... he'd just be gone. Several days of that. This is... this is the first day I've finally seen him properly."

"A few days.." She repeats the word, seeming to think them over. At least it hasn't been this whole time, or she'd have to assume this younger version of her hallucinates just as much as she has ever since she was declared insane. It's still worrying though, and the older Alice can't quite keep herself from biting her lower lip.

She mentally weighs the problems of going along with this versus the worry that she might break the other girl's trust in her forever.

.. In the end, this young girl's wellbeing is more important than her own feelings, Alice decides.

"I.. believe I must confess something to you."

"Confess something to me?" she turned to look at the older girl. "Are you finally going to tell me why we didn't want to be blonde anymore?" Alice rather liked being blonde, to be sure, so there must be a reason she decided to look more like Lizzie.

That statement comes so out of the blue that it manages to render Alice speechless for a moment or two as she just stares at the younger girl.

"No, not.. not quite."

Especially since she can't recall ever having been blonde. It's something that still puzzles her about this younger version of her. But she quickly shakes her head before she gets lost in that thought instead. There are more important matters to attend to right now.

"It is just.. I can't see him. The Rabbit, I mean. I know you were trying to point him out to me a moment ago, but I didn't see a thing. Which is.. quite odd, since I saw him in Wonderland not too long before I ended up on the train." She makes sure to add that last part, just in case it'd worry the younger Alice that perhaps she grew too old for Wonderland and its denizens - that's certainly not the case at all. But in a way that makes the question of what is going on here even more worrisome.

"You... you can't..." she swallowed and took in a sharp, shaky breath. "But..." She looks at her hands. Was she just seeing things?

But he had been there. She saw him...

Didn't she?

If anyone was going to see him too, it was going to be the older Alice. She felt big, large, fat tears begin to well up in her eyes and she sat down, not even paying attention to where she sat.

"But... But I s-saw him. D-Didn't I?"

Oh dear. This is exactly what she wanted to avoid! At the very least the older Alice also cares very, very little about where they're sitting or whether they may be in anyone's way or not, so she quickly kneels down next to the other girl. A hand reaches out to rest on the younger Alice's head.

"I believe you saw him." That's the first thing she should establish here. That she isn't calling the other girl a liar. She absolutely never would. They of all people are supposed to be able to count on each other here. "But there may be something strange going on. You haven't eaten anything odd, have you?"

You know, either regular-people-odd like expired food, or more-on-their-level-odd like things marked "eat me"...

She shook her head at Alice's question.

"N-No... No, I... I don't believe so? No mushrooms or cakes or even being introduced to the fish and the mutton. Nothing stranger than anything else on this train."

She pulled out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, sniffling and making small noises. "I think... something is wrong with me... though. I keep... I keep forgetting things, simple things and... and I'm so tired lately."

"Maybe someone should take a look at you," she carefully suggests as she moves her hand down Alice's hair in - what she hopes is - a comforting motion.

Yes, she's specifically trying to avoid using the d-o-c-t-o-r word. Although it's not even because of any potential discomfort on the younger Alice's end - no, that's solely because of her own terrible experiences with them. She'd rather not have this younger Alice near any doctor after all that. But she knows the ones on the train at least can be trusted.

"There are some people here who are very smart about those sorts of things. They will be able to figure out what might be wrong, and then they can help cure it." .. If that's possible, Alice thinks, but doesn't bother to add out loud. She has to be the older and reassuring one here, right? "I can stay with you the whole time, if you're scared or worried."

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