Would you speak with a queen? Or a cat? (AUDIENCE HALL)

[twinverses]

Need something? Want to complain more directly to your cute hosts or maybe you want to bargain with your memories? Maybe you just have a favor. Regardless, this is the place to do it! Just knock on the Audience Hall's door or just call for the Alices and they'll answer.

Of course, if you want to speak with a particular Alice just note that in your toplevel as long with the date and rough time it's happening. They can be contacted IC-ly throughout the day.

For the final week, in person meetings with the Storyteller (formerly known as the Cat) aren't possible. Alice, obviously, isn't talking to anyone either. However! The Storyteller can be called to talk throughout the castle so just say where you're yelling at her from.

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[xxxx_me]

[...Huh...]

It's why I really, really don't want to lose my memories again.

[He feels like that needs to be stated.]

How did you get here instead?

[twinverses]

I get it.

[She thinks about this for a while, petting the pink critter with them as a quick boost before speaking.]

When I woke up... I called that place Wonderland. I felt like I was in the Alice books even though most people couldn't see me. It was a long time before I saw a group of people I didn't know. I went to check it out--it was like a school, filled with teenagers and adults that didn't seem real at all.

They... [She swallows. She knows this is hard on Allen but this was the hardest part of her tale.] They just thought I was a ghost and ignored me. I made a wish then not to be lonely and that's when I found Alice! We played a lot there, then, and lost. I dunno what happened after that.

[xxxx_me]

Is that what you meant earlier? About your wish?

You want to grant your wish not to be lonely?

[twinverses]

Yeah. I wished for someone to keep me company and the Grail granted it. That's why I don't care that we lost.

[xxxx_me]

But... what does having people kill each other have to do with granting your wish?

[twinverses]

Well, my wish is granted, right? I didn't say hers was. I dunno the details exactly or what it means but I trust her. She's part of me, right? You wouldn't distrust yourself. That'd just be silly.

[xxxx_me]

Eh-

You're the same person? ...But she has a different wish?

[twinverses]

I think she said it was something like she was my reflection? I never really understood a lot of what she talked about when it came to magic.

[She's just as confused about this as you are, Allen. Trying to figure out what your weird twin/servant/reflection actually is kind of tough.] We're the same but we have differences. Like... a coin. Yeah, a coin! A coin has two sides and even though they're just slightly different you can't say they're different coins, can you?

[xxxx_me]

[They can be confused together. He's still holding her hand even as he tries to puzzle it out, though.]

...Even though you're two sides of the same coin, it doesn't bother you that her wish needs people to die?

[twinverses]

I've died before. What she can do... we'll make sure everyone won't go through what I did.

[She doesn't sound as sure about that as she probably should.]

[xxxx_me]

[!!]

You died...?

[Is. Is her hand cold?]

[twinverses]

[It's not.]

I'm not sure but... I think I did, back in the hospital. I dunno how I ended up where I did after that.

[xxxx_me]

Your hand's warm, though.

[Weird...]

So you died, and then played a game, and lost. And then you came here?

[twinverses]

I guess it is, isn't it?

[xxxx_me]

...

Alice... are you sure she can really bring us back?

We found all kinds of stuff. Dried blood... photos of people that said things like how they died during a week, or how they got executed for someone else's murder...

That sounds like the same game you're making us play now, doesn't it?

[twinverses]

[She glances around nervously. The other Alice always seemed to show up at times like this. Yet she doesn't.]

...mm, it does but it can't be. She wouldn't be able to use it without me. We can only do it together.

The Queen's Glass Game. Return everything to the beginning. You can't be mad about a murder that never happened, right?

[No, the other Alice couldn't do something without her. It's not that she she's opposed to murder... well, Queen Alice doesn't seem to be good at keeping a poker face.] I don't know why there would be evidence of that.

[xxxx_me]

She can't take away your memories, too?

[twinverses]

No, I don't think she can. I mean, I don't think she would?

[xxxx_me]

[Alice really trusts the Cheshire Cat... how can he put this in a way that she might consider it?]

...What if she thought the memories would hurt you? If you knew people died here and didn't get revived, you'd probably be sad, wouldn't you?

[twinverses]

...I'm not sure. Why wouldn't the magic work? Why wouldn't she tell me? Wouldn't I know?

[These questions are more for herself as she thinks then she nods.]

I'll think on it, Allen. Maybe I can ask her.

[xxxx_me]

[Nodding, and offering a faint smile.]

Then I'll check with you again sometime.