Return To Wonderland

[save_us_alice]

(Happens after Alice's trip to the Nexus post-breakup with Victor. Further reading can be done under the "return of the king" tag for both Alice and Victor.)They’ve been delaying this for a while - they’d be the first to admit it. Both of them have been nervous about taking this step. But they need to see if they can settle this somehow. Victor

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[deadgirlsliekme]

Wonderland is much as they left it before - the sky is bright blue, filled with fluffy white clouds, while the ground is a checkerboard of white and black tiles. Victor feels the King peering at it all through his eyes. “What do you think?” he asks quietly.

It’s beautiful, the King says, sound a little - choked up? I - I hadn’t realized. . .how much I missed this place. Of course, I was dead before, then there was the problem with your perceptions of yourself. . . .

“Yes, I know,” Victor says, grimacing. He hates how his self-loathing was thrown into such stark relief by the incident, but in a way he’s glad too. Maybe now he can get some proper help.

[save_us_alice]

Alice looks around. “Well, where to? Do we talk to the Pale Royals, or do we try and seek out either Caterpillar or the Gnome Elder?” she muses aloud.

[deadgirlsliekme]

“What could the White King and Queen help us with?” Victor asks out of honest confusion. He liked them well enough on his first visit, of course, but he was under the impression Caterpillar was the one you went to in situations like these.

[save_us_alice]

"Well, the White Queen is a master at remembering things forwards and backwards," Alice explains. "I was hoping she could give us some hints as to how to proceed."