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[maddest]

[Break is succumbing to a moment of melancholy today, under the force of the rain and cold. He rests his forehead against the glass momentarily and heaves out a breath. It fogs the window pane.]

[He's too old, and too tired to give in to the temptation to draw a picture in it with his fingertip. Emily is forgotten on the edge of the bed, too. For a rare moment, everything is very still.]

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Age doesn't always mean much.

You already look younger than a few minutes ago.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm not actually in that decade.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Oh. I should have know given how easily you usually manage to think... outside the box.

In what decade are you actually, then?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Eighty whotsit.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Is that so? [A slight smirk.] In that case, I'd really like to know the brand name of your anti-aging cream.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Magic.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[A slight smirk.] I'm afraid my magic can't do that.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps you just don't know it yet. You're young.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

I guess it's possible. Or maybe I'll never get old. [Because she'll die before it happens. But she says that in a sarcastic tone so that it doesn't show she actually thinks that.]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

What joyous news, or frabjous day.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[Frabjous. Raven winces at hearing him use this word. It's Alice's word, and hers alone.]

Why would you say that?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Well, if you really are ageless, and all.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Ageless? Ah, no. You misunderstood my words I'm afraid. I only meant I was likely to die young.

[A slight smirk.] Though I'd rather you had been right about that.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Less frabjous, then.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

Why do you keep using that word?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Feeling nostalgic.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Nostalgic?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Homesick.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

The only other person I know who's used to using that word is... Alice.

[But she never said she was from your world. And Raven knows she would have told her.]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

The little innocent Alice? Yes- she's a variation on a theme.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[Raven ponders this a moment.] You're from an alternative version of Wonderland, then? One in which there's a different Alice. [One who wouldn't be so little and innocent.]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Something like that.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

I see.

It still feels a bit weird for me to hear that word from you.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

Why?

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

You're not a blond eight-year-old girl with blue eyes.