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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[octopups]

Huh?

[Several of him him finally look across the room at her. But he pauses once again before he speaks.]

... Why is that hard?

[twinverses]

If someone only liked being around one of you... wouldn't you feel jealous?

[octopups]

Huh??

[Okay that absolutely confuses him in a new and different way.]

That would just be weird! All of me are me!

[twinverses]

Mm, yeah, I guess it would be.

[She sighs.]

Of course there's no way a reflection could ever truly be the real thing. A book is a book. A person is a person.

[octopups]

... Oh. [Now he gets it.]

[Amdi is still for a moment, but then, slowly, all of him walk up closer to the throne.]

Um, I... I think you're a real person.

[twinverses]

[She glances at him from the balcony before standing up again to... jump off the balcony so they can have a proper talk.]

I'm not the 'real' Alice, though. I can never be her.

[octopups]

[The jump off the balcony makes him scoot backwards nervously a couple of feet.]

Y-yeah, but you're the real... you. You're, uh... really different from her.

[For instance, Amdi was never lowkey concerned that the Queen was maybe possibly gonna hurt him just for being annoying. Like he is now. For instance.]

[twinverses]

[It's not much but she does step back away from him to give him more comfort. She's not going to attack, at least?]

Am I? Has the story drifted that far off course? [There's something... a hint of the sadness that the Queen once carried. They were, after all, two halves.] I guess that's how it is...

[octopups]

[Amdi appreciates that, but he still stays a bit bunched up.]

[But... he also recognizes that sad tone.]

Does... does it need to be a story? With a "course"? Can't... can't things just happen?

[twinverses]

Does it need to be a story? [That seems to put her off balance just a little.] Everything is a story. A life is a story.

[octopups]

I mean...! [Nervously] I-I guess, when it's over, it's all a story to someone else, but...

But when it's still happening, it's just your life, isn't it?

[twinverses]

Maybe in the present but wouldn't you say memory is like a story? You look back at it.

[octopups]

I... I guess, kinda.

... Is that why you keep taking ours? To have more stories?

[twinverses]

Oh, that's just a side effect of the Nameless Forest. [Shrugies.] Though, I have to be careful otherwise everyone would end up like Oriko within minutes.