i'm sorry. i'm tired, i didn't sleep well last night. ( from cheshire, for alice! )
SUBJECT: down the rabbit hole meme NOTIFY: @chaserabbits CONCERNING: cheshire cat
when one had a mystery on their hands, there was really only one place to turn, if you were serious. they're not the most stable hands to be sure, but would your mystery be solved? of course! even the most curious souls like alice's own could feel a TWINGE of satisfaction when watching him work, what an unflappably odd but capable person! cheshire cat, oh, the name itself ought to be an omen. she likes to hang about the offices, like an unwanted stray, in and out at her own leisure, she never hazards to guess how he feels about her playing the interloper, only ever eying her as she'd bat at things within the office, anything to quiet down her boredom.
she's tossing a ball within his office, up, down, catch! he's working on something, some kind of paperwork, he isn't talkative and she wonders if it's another spiral. you never know til it pops up! they're so rare now that she almost forgets, but nobody ever really does in wonderland, where everything just might crumble inwards, if you weren't watching carefully enough. perhaps that's why he gives her a look at some point, ASSURANCE PROVIDED in his own, odd way.
i'm sorry. i'm tired, i didn't sleep well last night.
"do you sleep any night?" alice counters, cheeks puffed up, her head tilting into the couch. she's draped herself across the thing, on tops of the files that pile up on its surface, unfiled and untouched and alice, well, she'd play secretary if he'd feed her, like any PROPER GIRL would do if being fed. but that's neither here nor there and she had a feeling that all cheshire had on deck was shitty chinese food ordered from the place just next door, the permanent smell of sesame oil and grease sticking to the walls in here.
this is all to say that she's somewhat DOUBTFUL of his assessment of his state, but, who's she to question it! and who is she? his mother? hardly! she almost pours from the chaise, to come up by his side to take a peek at what he was up to, arms pillowed on his shoulder, face pressed into her crossed arms there. "what are you working on? something haunting you about this case? or are you just having another restless night thanks to unassociated things~?"












