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London is darker and filthier than she even remembers once she returns to it - perhaps it is her mood that colours it in her mind, but all the same the stark difference from all that she has gotten so used to in Wonderland annoys her almost more than anything else.

( i'm not the only moment you're made of )

Alice is sitting at the tea-table with a stack of books on her chair that makes her appear nearly so tall as Rabbit - were her knees not nudging against the edge of the table. The paper crown she wears is off-kilter, robin's egg blue to contrast the golden nest of hair it rests upon ( Read more... )

The Dodo's death at the Queen of Hearts' hand just a few days after Wendy's arrival and Cat's return causes a chain of events, the first being the appearance of Mouse in the court. He informs Alice of the news in ragged, breathless gasps and she stills a time before leaning to press a kiss to his brow and thank him for his speed. She excuses ( Read more... )

Rabbit knocks before he comes into Alice's chambers and it has the slightly alarmed sort of staccato that is characteristic of him as late and it bids her to sit up in bed, hair just tousled enough to indicate that she'd finally fallen asleep. "Rabbit, dearest?" Her voice holds a touch of worry, and she moves to get out of bed and into her dressing ( Read more... )

Alice is curled in her study looking over the very latest reports she'd been given when Bill rushes in without knocking, breathless and askew. She leaps up with an immediate worry curling in her stomach but lets the poor girl catch her breath nonetheless, hand light to her shoulder. "Bill, what is it? What's happened ( Read more... )