♞ 3rd Cup ◊ Video
[picture flickers--the Hatter sits at a table, staring at his moving hands, a number of pins in his teeth; some newly acquired fabric, thread, odds and ends lay by his elbows, a cheap, half-broken form behind him with a rich, finely made, fully pieced suit upon it]
It is a wonder, a puzzlement, how one can sleep in such a City--let alone survive from day to day. The moment I begin to understand the worrisome workings of this place, something -else- happens--but, as it is--that -is- the understanding of an understandment that I am meant to understand. [takes a pin from his mouth to use it]
Mr. Chant, I apologize--I have never delivered such an order this far after it has been commissioned, but--well...seeing as it was hazardous to venture into the streets for some nights. You will have it by this afternoon.
Alice--my other Alice, not my Alice--your order is also ready.
--Which reminds me!
Though I had barely known him for a few days, it seems the absent Thomas Raith has left me a rather generous space for my up and coming shop. Kindly coiffer. [quietly, somber] I imagine we could have been quite the friends...
There is much work to be done with it. [brighter again, gesturing] In the meantime, I am offering my services as a Hatter and Tailor as a private practice.
My work is of the finest quality--coin guaranteed. [he lifts the hat he's been working on, smiling] Made to exact specifications.
I am utterly, entirely and unquestionably at your service.
As for this---assignment of ours...[lays the hat down, and goes to cut a length of blue ribbon; below the video, there is an addendum of text]
Equivalence.
Had I any words to say on the subject, though words are hard and heavy handed to begin with for such a thing as the aforementioned, then I offer only this.
Connectivity, closeness, correspondence, communion, compact, concord, collusion, conjunction, concurrence, contact.
It is through that.
[ooc: Need to run to class soon, but will be back later ._.]