scene 42

[charmedillusion]

Let's play pretend

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[playstheblues]

Alice was a little silly.

We haven't seen her in a long time.

[charmedillusion]

But she didn't know. They can't be angry with her because she didn't know.

[ooc: She's not usually this incoherent and cryptic; she had a chat with the Cheshire Cat and it's all his fault. :P]

[playstheblues]

Lady Sarah....

You know for a fact that a book or a story doesn't end because the words stop.

[charmedillusion]

I know. I know you're right. It's just...

Blue, I've done something horrible - absolutely horrible - and I can't fix it.

[dresden4hire]

Are you saying that because parts of your life were depicted in a movie?

Hell's bells I wish I could stop myself.

[charmedillusion]

...I think so, yes.

So do I.

[dresden4hire]

Most of the people here are from... something. Hell, I learned I even have a TV show and a book series in some world.

That doesn't make your life any less real. Who's to say all fiction isn't just reality somewhere else; that all our creative ideas are really just actual events from other worlds filtering through?

[charmedillusion]

You do? Really?

I know...it's not so much that my life isn't real. I know I'm real. It's just...real people leave very real consequences, don't they? Even if they didn't want to, or didn't mean to.

[thexgoblinxking]

Aren't we growing old for...pretend, Sarah?

[charmedillusion]

Yes, but...

Did - did something

But sometimes it's easier to say something if you're only pretending.

[thexgoblinxking]

Another of your plays, Sarah? Shall we get out some costumes to go with?

Or...do you have something to say?

[charmedillusion]

No, we can do without.

Did something - well, what I mean to say is that I had wondered if...

After I left. Did something happen?

[hisplusone]

That's an interesting take on it.

[charmedillusion]

But tragic, because it happened.

[hisplusone]

Happened?

[charmedillusion]

Alice didn't mean to ruin Wonderland, but it was ruined anyway.

I didn't mean to hurt anyone, but I did anyway.

I can't forgive myself for this, Rose. It's all my fault.

[princess_crow]

...What happened, Miss Sarah?

[charmedillusion]

I didn't mean to, but I broke it. I meant to fix it, to save him, to protect everyone, but I ruined it for them.

It's like I did the exact opposite of everything I was supposed to do.

[princess_crow]

What did you break? A fairytale?

[charmedillusion]

Yes.

It wasn't supposed to end like that, but it did.