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[updollsdresses]

[Now, when one wakes up to find two rosy-cheeked young children calling you Daddy and jumping on you when you were quite sure that but a few minutes ago you had been killed, there are only so many ways one can react. You could scream. You could scream and then go examine your surroundings. You could question the children as to your location. Or,

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[hangedhourai]

Excuse me. I believe you have some explaining to do.

*Your new wife as seen the bloodied children and she can see the blood on you. This one can put two and two together, oh yes she can.*

[updollsdresses]

[He looks down at the blood, as if he'd just noticed that it was there. He looks back up at her, the picture of innocence.]

Explain what?

[hangedhourai]

Why exactly did you find it necessary to kill the drone children?

[updollsdresses]

It was self-defense, miss! I had no idea where I was, and they just... attacked! I had to defend myself.

[hangedhourai]

Drones usually don't attack new arrivals...

[updollsdresses]

Well, these ones did.

[abrupt subject change a go-go!] What's your name, miss? And do you know where I am?

[hangedhourai]

*She still doesn't trust you and your subject changes mister.*

Alice. You are now in Mayfield. And you would do well not to attack those children again. Drawing attention to yourself is a bad idea.

[updollsdresses]

[lol, trusting Teatime. That's a funny thought.]

I understand, Miss Alice. I'll... restrain myself in the future.

[He starts wandering around the room, taking down family portraits and examining them impassively. Is this what lies beyond The Desert?...]

Where is Mayfield, exactly? I've never heard of it, but I don't really... travel much.

[hangedhourai]

Just call me Alice.

Apparently it's a small town in the country of America. During the 1950's, no less.

[updollsdresses]

I've never heard of an America. Are we still on the Disc?

[hangedhourai]

I don't know what a Disc is.

America is the United States of America. In Northern America.

[updollsdresses]

The Disc. Discworld. It's where I'm from.

Are you from this... America, Alice?

[hangedhourai]

I have never heard of it.

No. I am from Gensokyo.

[updollsdresses]

And I've never heard of that.

It seems that we're... even.