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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 kept quiet and close to Nita, hugging herself a bit closer than she probably needed to. She had no idea how this magic worked but she watched attentively.

There wasn't quite a bang, as Nita finished persuading the world - the train? - to let them stop being one place and start being somewhere entirely separate, but the scenery change was quite complete; this was indeed the Stores carriage: its bottom level, in a spot by the engine wall.

Seeing that the spell took, Nita quietly scuffed out part of the sealing wizards' knot on the outer spell circle with her foot.

Looking up, she asked, "Are you all right? How was that for a first teleport?"

"Ah yes, yes, I'm fine," she looked around, and waited patiently, or as patiently as Alice could, for the White Rabbit to come through the door.

After several minutes, Alice's brows knitted together.

"Where... Where is he?"

"... Alice, you weren't looking out one of the windows at the void when you spotted him, right?"

Coming at this sideways seemed, if not the safest way to do it, then the only way to.

"Hmm? Why should that matter?" she tilted her head. "I mean, what else is there to look at? We haven't an art gallery."

"Might have to ask Rapunzel about that one," Nita said, briefly smiling.

"It's just... it's easier to see things that shouldn't be there when looking at the void, than when just looking at things inside the train. I haven't seen people in the void yet, though," she added carefully.

"I had visions like that long before I joined this train," she continued, after a moment. I hope this is the right tack to take...

"I... I didn't- he's- no he's HERE. He's here, I saw him. Just because... just because of the void..." her brows knitted together. "No... no no no no!" her eyes started to well up with tears.

"I... I saw him. I'm not... I'm not making it up."

"I'm not saying you didn't see him," Nita said, conviction in her voice.

"Just..." and she faltered.

"That no one else can. Not unless he shows up at a platform stop first."

Alice shook her head, no no no no! He...

"He... he's... isn't he here?" she whimpered. "He has to be or... or..." she was starting to panic, her breath coming faster and faster. She was starting to hyperventilate.

Nita took a deep breath, stepping close to put her arms gently around the smaller Alice.

"Breathe with me, okay? That's it, just breathe."

There was no spell at work here, merely intent.

"Wherever he is now, whenever he does show up... we'll see him together, okay? I'll make sure of it."

"But then... what have I been seeing if not him? Am I seeing things? Am I- I've gone mad, then?"

"No more than I have," Nita said.

"People still get visions on this train - on a regular basis, even. I may not have seen him specifically, but that doesn't mean you're mad."

Nita made sure Alice could see her again, as she went on, "We can talk to Wen Qing about it if you want to be sure, alright? But you're not going to have to deal with this alone, whatever the truth is."

If Alice was going to get anything out of this conversation, Nita hoped it was that.

"Wen Qing? W-Who is that? What do we do?" she sniffled and pulled a handkerchief from her pinafore pocket, wiping her eyes. "I-I'm sorry, I don't mean to cry."

"She's one of the people who helps in the medical car," Nita answered honestly.

"And it is okay to cry, Alice. You don't have to apologize for that."

Alice swallowed.

"You... won't leave me alone, will you?"

Nita shook her head.

"I won't. Do you want to walk to the medical car, or teleport again?"

"Teleport... I... I don't want to see him again if he's not here."

With a soft, sympathetic noise, Nita began the work of setting up the teleportation spell again.

With a flash of blue light, they'd be off.

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;;

Sorry!

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Shall we contact Wen Qing's mun to figure out where this thread is going?

Nah, let's just have her go to the medical coach, that's the end point I have in mind

o7 Works for me. Time to wrap it is!

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And wrap!