New Arrivals- The Beginning {Alice is a foundling so any potential makers that want to size her up are more than welcome.}
[All through the journey to the castle that would be her new home, Alice had been telling herself that this is fine. She's fine. This is for the best. Now her family no longer has to suffer her gloomy presence and she can get away from that stifling town.
It's fine.
She manages to keep telling herself that all the way though the bath, and the meal, and the incredibly wasteful burning of her clothes. But now she stands in a hall that feels at once far too big and somehow claustrophobic, wearing a silk dress that should probably be on someone much prettier than she is, waiting with the other foundlings to see if anyone actually wants them. She is at last forced to admit, this is not fine.]
Are they really going to make everyone wait until all of us are chosen? We'll be here all night if they do that.
[She says that to one of the other foundlings, hopefully in a voice too quiet to be overheard. How good is vampiric hearing again?]
Pumpkin Gone Wild
[She's only barely settled into her new life when the pumpkin fiasco occurs. But she's not one to shie away from hard work so Alice is going through the hallways, gardening shears in hand, cutting vines and collecting pumpkins. What on earth are they going to do with all these gourds? Jack o Lanterns? Pies maybe? Throw them at whoever's fault this was?
She likes that last one. When she hears someone else in the hall, she doesn't even look up to check who it is, but instead remarks dryly.]
You know, all my life I've heard stories and rumors about this castle. People called it grand, mysterious, and even terrifying. Funny how none of them ever used the word silly.
Library Clean-up
[Finally, something Alice actually wants to do. She is happy to collect books and return them to the library. Although several of those books will get perused a bit along the way. Who was reading in a tree?
Well right now it's Alice. She doesn't know who put the book up there originally, but after climbing up to get it, she couldn't help but take a peek inside.
A peek turned into just a few pages. Then just the first chapter. And now she's just reading it. At least she's responsible enough to turn it in when she's done.]
Alice Liddell | Alice in the Country of Hearts | Student | New Arrival
[All through the journey to the castle that would be her new home, Alice had been telling herself that this is fine. She's fine. This is for the best. Now her family no longer has to suffer her gloomy presence and she can get away from that stifling town.
It's fine.
She manages to keep telling herself that all the way though the bath, and the meal, and the incredibly wasteful burning of her clothes. But now she stands in a hall that feels at once far too big and somehow claustrophobic, wearing a silk dress that should probably be on someone much prettier than she is, waiting with the other foundlings to see if anyone actually wants them. She is at last forced to admit, this is not fine.]
Are they really going to make everyone wait until all of us are chosen? We'll be here all night if they do that.
[She says that to one of the other foundlings, hopefully in a voice too quiet to be overheard. How good is vampiric hearing again?]
Pumpkin Gone Wild
[She's only barely settled into her new life when the pumpkin fiasco occurs. But she's not one to shie away from hard work so Alice is going through the hallways, gardening shears in hand, cutting vines and collecting pumpkins. What on earth are they going to do with all these gourds? Jack o Lanterns? Pies maybe? Throw them at whoever's fault this was?
She likes that last one. When she hears someone else in the hall, she doesn't even look up to check who it is, but instead remarks dryly.]
You know, all my life I've heard stories and rumors about this castle. People called it grand, mysterious, and even terrifying. Funny how none of them ever used the word silly.
Library Clean-up
[Finally, something Alice actually wants to do. She is happy to collect books and return them to the library. Although several of those books will get perused a bit along the way. Who was reading in a tree?
Well right now it's Alice. She doesn't know who put the book up there originally, but after climbing up to get it, she couldn't help but take a peek inside.
A peek turned into just a few pages. Then just the first chapter. And now she's just reading it. At least she's responsible enough to turn it in when she's done.]