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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

[irrationally]

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"...

[madcuriosity]

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."

[irrationally]

"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."