Fourth feather: Thinking of home... | audio

[palutenas_angel]

[There's a silence when the feed starts. Then Pit speaks up. You can tell he's spent some time thinking this over, due to lurking about ShipNET and reading a few entries that talk about home.

You can also tell that he's trying to keep his voice from shaking.]Could...anyone tell me about where they came from? I...read some things from a few days or

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[entirelybonkers]

Well, I suppose that would entirely depend upon which home you would be asking me about! At this point, you see - I rather like to think I have two; that of Underland and England, of course.

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[palutenas_angel]

You can talk to me about both of them, I'm not picky.

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[entirelybonkers]

Hm. I suppose I should talk about England first then, since that's where I'm from originally and it's usually best to start at the beginning of a story as opposed to the middle of it, don't you think?

I have a mother named Helen, a sister named Margaret and I'm most certainly my father's daughter through and through. I'm nineteen years old, and I've never seen the rest of the world but when I get home, I plan to speak promptly to Lord Ascot and suggest trading to China as opposed to limiting ourselves otherwise.

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[palutenas_angel]

I think so as well.

Can you tell me more?

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[entirelybonkers]

England is a terribly proper place these days, what with corsets and codfish peeping out from every corner just waiting to dictate what is proper and what isn't. They say, 'Now Alice, you won't do better than a Lord, that pretty face won't last forever, and you don't want to end up like Aunt Imogen now do you?' Bollocks, that's what I think of that. Quadrille and secrets and assumptions, hmph!

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[palutenas_angel]

Mm-hmm. What about Underland?

[Oh Goddess he's hoping it's not the same thing as the Underworld, it brings back memories he'd much rather forget.]

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[entirelybonkers]

Ah, Underland! That is a tale, now isn't it? It's full of the most curious and wondrous things - talking flowers, a dodo bird, a smiling cat that can disappear, and a white rabbit in a waistcoat. It's quite the place, and up until recently I had been quite certain that it was all a very strange and odd dream, but instead of it being a dream, it was, in fact, a memory considering that I had been to Underland before when I was but a girl. I dreamed about it for years afterwards until I returned.

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[palutenas_angel]

That's really fascinating!

[He. Is. Hooked. Alice's tales of Underland interests him, and now he knows it's not the Underworld.]

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[entirelybonkers]

Isn't it just? Why, when I was a girl, I can remember having tea with the Hatter, painting the Red Queen's roses red, wandering through the forest with Chessur. It all seemed so real, and now I know why.

Though this last visit was a bit more troublesome than the first, what with slaying the Jabberwocky, of course. I didn't want to do it, slaying isn't usually my sort of thing, you know. I don't slay, but no one would put it out of their mind, and eventually I made the very right choice indeed and I did what needed to be done! Underland is much safer now, I should think, especially with that dreadful creature dead.

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[palutenas_angel]

The Jabberwocky?

[He's curious. What was the Jabberwocky? What did it do to Alice's Underland to warrant being slain?]

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[entirelybonkers]

Oh, why yes! A wicked looking creature if I've ever seen one, he stood tall and imposing, over everyone that day, and I must admit it was beastly difficult to keep my concentration. I'd have to say he resembled a dragon, or would if they truly existed back in England, though I suppose it's possible they did at some point in time and we've just somehow dismissed it all. No one else knows of Underland, you see - so it is likely we've just forgotten.

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[palutenas_angel]

Why would they just forget about it? Don't they talk about those kinds of creatures there?

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[entirelybonkers]

Oh, no no. I meant in England they've likely forgotten! It can be terribly droll there, you see. No imagination whatsoever!

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[palutenas_angel]

That's sad. It's one of the most beautiful things anyone could have!

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[entirelybonkers]

I quite agree with you! I can't imagine living without imagination. I'd say it might be something like seeing the world in blacks and greys instead of in color.

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[palutenas_angel]

You wouldn't be able to think up and invent new things!