Down the rabbit hole and back again

[unwittingleader]

Who: +1 Alice Liddell and Somarium!
Where: A cafe in espoir
Style: Any!
Status: O p e n !

[A strange new world made of dreams?

Been there, done that. Which is why Alice isn't too surprised to find herself in yet another dreamworld she's been forced to inhabit.

Whelp. Might as well try to make the best of it. So after a bit of exploring Alice stumbles

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[madcuriosity]

Miss Alice?

[A voice calls behind the older Alice. Alice couldn't believe it. She was back... again.]

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[Someone else she knew? Alice turned to look. Strange, she couldn't place the face.]

Yes?

[A pause. Something seemed familiar, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it...]

Have we met before?

[madcuriosity]

[It was very hard trying to fight the sigh wanting to come from her lips. She had been forgotten again? She wondered if the other Alices would ever remember her upon returning to Somarium. She shook her head.]

No... I suppose not.

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Oh.

[Hm. She seemed... dissapointed? Had she mistaken her for someone else? ... Still there is the fact she knew her name. Was there another girl named Alice who looked just like her running around in this place?]

How strange, then, that you knew my name right away without my telling you...

[madcuriosity]

Oh well... [She hugged her stuff rabbit closer.] You... I do know you, Miss Alice. You're the older Alice and I'm the little Alice.

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[Just. Staring.]

... I'm sorry, what?

[madcuriosity]

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O...kay.

[She's just going to try and recover from... whatever that was?]

Did you mean to say, that your name is Alice, too?

[madcuriosity]

[Alice curtsied. Best to get it all out of the way she supposed.]

My name is Alice Liddell, I have an older sister named Lorina and I followed the rabbit down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. I met Mr. Hatter, Cheshire Puss, and all sorts of mad and curious individuals. Only, I was seven and a half.

How do you do, Miss Alice?

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[. . . It's just one ridiculous story after the next.]

Uh..... huh. Did someone put you up to this?

[She's looking around suspiciously now. Surely this was Ace trying to pull a prank or something of that nature and somehow convinced this girl to say all those things. He could be highly convincing when he wanted to be, especially if he were threatening to murder you otherwise...]

[madcuriosity]

No one did any such thing! My name IS Alice Pleasance Liddell and everything I told you was true!

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Well I ... I guess Ace wouldn't have known about Lorina...

[That was more to herself than directed at Alice.]

How can this be possible...?

[Then again, several impossible things have been known to happen before.]

[madcuriosity]

Haven't you noticed anything odd, Miss Alice? [Like the nearly identical dresses. The fact that they both went to Wonderland. She doesn't know HOW but Alice has come to accept that there are very strange things going on... and apparently multiple Wonderlands, Hatters, and Cheshires and even Alices.]

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I would be lying if I didn't say I notice odd things all of the time.

[Oh. Right. Maybe that's why she seemed familiar? She reminded her of herself.]

[madcuriosity]

[She hugs Basil, her stuffed white rabbit close. Perhaps it was too much to expect being friends with the older Miss Alice again.]

I suppose I should tell Ace you're here or Mr. Monrey. [Because that's always who Alice remembered.]

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I've already met up with the two of them...

[They had both stopped by the cafe earlier, funnily enough. It's like they have Alice-radar, or something...]

They haven't given you any trouble, have they?