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[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]

[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.

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

What does that have to do with a word, or a world?

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Nostalgy. You get to be nostalgic. So I do as well, right?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

For that little-

[No, Break, don't be rude.]

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[Raven's eyes narrow. Thin ice there, Break. You're talking about her little sister. No one gets to say anything bad about her.]

Girl?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

She was, at that.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[Anger briefly flashes in her eyes but Raven keeps it under control.]

What about you, then? What are you nostaligic about?

[Yeah, subject change.]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

All the things in my world she used to insist never existed.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Such as?

[Come now, Alice believes in the most incredible things. It's hard for Raven to figure out what those things could be.]

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

She didn't like the parallels. Mad Hatter, Dormouse, March Hare and the like.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Ah. And which one of those would you be?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

What makes you say that?

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Let's call it intuition.

So?

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[mister-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm the decor.

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[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[A slight smirk.] And all the characters from that nice little play would be completely lost without you.