][seven][ impossible things before breakfast ][ audio

[the_alice]

That was...well I don't think that 'irritating' quite covers it.

Nothing so bad as people disappearing, ranging infections and the like, but they're not really comparable.

Is there anything to be done about it? All things pass, more quickly here in a way.

Still, one would think...

Hatter, do you suppose---

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[10shlling6pence]

[quietly, a teaspoon hitting a teacup in the background]

More, muchly and moderately, this place worries me, Alice. I haven't quite the stomach for it most of the Time.

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[the_alice]

[ She glances over at him, her network device in the cup of her palms, seated on the floor with her shoulder to a coffee table's long side. ]

It's not always...this way. I've seen people happy.

[ And they seemed more honest about it than she can say for her own England but then maybe she's being unfair, uncertain on how to gauge her own happiness and how it might be gotten about once she returns. ]

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[10shlling6pence]

[he gazes out the window from his seat by the coffee table, fixing his tea, with an uncertain expression]

As have I, in my short moments here. And they are few, far, flabbergasted and fearfully between.

[there's a moment--he's thinking about something--something familiar that is familiar with this familiarity--and there's something of an orange glow..and it fades..he turns to look at her]

I don't like it, Alice. I don't like these things that govern us here.

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[the_alice]

[ She frowns at that, and to be fair it's not unwarranted, the parallel she can spot--could even if she was rooms away. But she pauses, sets the device aside, and laces her fingers together, not moving toward him at first but careful to keep her stare steady, even. Though it is not the same, there can be similarities without said governing powers being of the precisely same cut. To tell him may be redundant, so she holds off on that part for now. ]

The days when we govern ourselves...they do seem to outnumber the ones that we don't.

[ This, she points out half as a revelation to herself, and she smiles just a little at him, because it's true. They have, the two of them, both been rather lucky compared to many. ]

[mad_here]

The cats probably had it worse.

[the_alice]

And the dogs.

[mad_here]

I don't have a dog, to know.

[the_alice]

Your Cheshire seems to agree that they had it worse, anyway.

[knaveswitness]

If only as an old man my hearing was going~!

[the_alice]

But that wouldn't be very useful to you now that it's over.

[knaveswitness]

Well, true. But if I had to pick a debilitation...

[the_alice]

As far as the senses go?

[mustbemad]

We cats did have it worse, yes.

[the_alice]

Along with the dogs, I'd imagine.

[mustbemad]

If we want to acknowledge dogs, yes.

[the_alice]

I know a number of very nice ones.

Loyal. And kind.

[milkboned]

...

[the_alice]

You can't have liked it any better than anyone else.

[ a GUESS but still come on... ]

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[milkboned]

I didn't say I did or didn't, but even if I did I wouldn't care that it made me an idiot, I'd say it anyway!

[milkboned]

... but I didn't.