I Like What I Get, But Do I Get What I Like?

[save_us_alice]

Alice enters the Nexus looking thoughtful and a little worried. She's come here from the "real" world as opposed to Wonderland, so she's dressed far more conservatively than normal -- a surprisingly pretty lilac dress with long sleeves and a long skirt, and lacy black gloves. She sits down on the arm of a nearby chair and looks out at the crowd. "Earlier this month, I encountered an old acquaintance from when I was a child at a friend's flat," she begins. "I'd only met him briefly before, and we didn't talk much at the party, but. . .what I know of him, I rather like. He's very sweet." She smiles briefly, then continues. "I don't have many friends in the 'proper' world -- everyone seems to be rather afraid of me after Rutledge -- and I'd like at least the chance to start up a friendship with him. However, there's two problems with this." She holds up her fingers as she counts. "One -- I've only met him here in the present day -- or what passes for such in this place. I don't know where on earth he lives, or even if he's precisely the same boy I met. Two--" and here she suddenly blushes "-- I did something rather idiotic relating to a childhood promise I'd made him when we encountered each other again. Nothing hurtful -- well sort of -- mind. I apologized, but. . . ." She sighs and leans her head on her hand. "I must learn to think before I act, not act before I think."

She shakes her head. "Anyway, my question is -- how exactly do you have a friendship with someone you've only properly met here? I've lost contact with a couple of people here who's company I quite enjoyed, and I'm not keen on having it happen again. Does this place have some sort of post, at least?"