Alice sat cross-legged on the floor, shuffling cards together and dealing out another hand of Patience. Alice wasn't very good at Patience; she got bored and cheated. One could turn that into whatever metaphor one liked ( Read more... )

( Alice awoke with a start. )

Alice had a dress, thanks to Romeo's kind assistance, and a date, the latter quite unexpectedly. She also had a set of butterfly hairclips. She had worn them to the last dance, but it seemed a shame not to wear them again. After all, one could never have too many butterflies in one's hair.

(Expecting one from the House of Atreides, but open before ( Read more... )

Alice was lounging on her bed, chattering to Dinah. As she did frequently ( Read more... )

Alice had to admit surprise to how cheery and clean the cabins proved. Braving nature seemed hardly a hardship at all. More like a comfortable vacation of sorts. Of course, the asylum was still a rather low threshhold to surpass. It was not difficult for any place to be an improvement.

( Reflections (of a linkdroppy nature) )