Alice Liddell

[thecuriousxone]

captbarbeau​:

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He was pleased that she would join him. Erik enjoyed Alice’s company, even if it was a bit odd at times. He stood back on his feet, dusting himself off of any dirt of leaves. “I tend to leave the madness misunderstood.” He laughed, not fully understanding what she meant by her words. There were times Erik didn’t quite understand Alice. He blamed it mainly on the age difference between them. The younger generation were in their own world. “That sounds like a good deal to me. He’d be excited to see you.” Eric extended his hand out to assist the young girl out of the tree. “It’s a bit of a way into town. I’m excited to hear what you have today.”

Alice had quickly developed a liking for Erik. She never felt any judgement from him for all her quirks, of which there were many. That had easily earned her respect. “Well I think there is something to be said for madness. I think it’s that bit of spark in life that people sometimes need. After all, geniuses are often called mad are they not.” She laughed. There were streaks of madness in her after all, Wonderland had left some imprinted on her. If you asked her she was making out just fine with it, better than most. “Well that’s good because I wasn’t going to take no for an answer.” She took his hand, descending from her perch. Thumbing through her journal for a good part. “I don’t mind the walk. Let’s see… how about the great Jabberwocky for today.”

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journcytothepast​:

She writes better up in a tree, that’s a new one. “What are you writing?” Anya questioned, she had some time to hang around and ask about whatever she was doing. Writing in a tree while humming was interesting enough to catch her eye, sometimes she found herself humming a song as well but she can never remember enough of it and whenever Anya tries to find it in her brain, it’s gone.

Explaining her writing to strangers was always an interesting experience. “A fantasy tale, a world I’ve had rattling around in my brain for as long as I can remember.” It was anecdotal rather than fantasy really. However, trying to explain that always just earned her odd looks, whispers that she was loony. “I’m trying to actually write it all down now, figured someone besides myself might enjoy it.”

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cleverrct​:

Dimitri laughed softly at her answer as he took a moment to brush the filth from the street off of himself, what he could at least. “Nothing that was that important, was just hoping to catch someone for a chat,” most of what he’d said was the truth. As much as he enjoyed talking with the her, the last thing he wanted was for her to have all the facts. 

He reached into his pocket, gripping the wad of cash that was still tucked away safely and a small sigh of relief escaped him. “Does breakfast help clear your head?” He asked with a small smile, “the diner is already open, my treat.” Dimitri insisted, still feeling like he owed her something in return after taking her money as he had.  

 With hands clasped behind her back, Alice rocked back on her heels. "I take it this means you were unsuccessful then." A smile tugging at the corner of her lips. A part of her wanted to pry, after all one doesn’t just fall asleep on the street waiting for a simple chat. Yet another part of her knew better. 

She hadn’t realized how hungry she was until he mentioned food. That’s what she got for dashing out the house so early.  "Well it couldn't hurt." Alice laughed. "Diner sounds good to me. You don't have to do that, you know."

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almxstherexrp​:

“its just fine. no harm done” She offered her a smile. Tia really didn’t mind, she had been the staining after all. She probably would have acted the same way if some Stanger at the restaurant had be staring at her has she prepped for the dinner rush. “what a shame. Well if you ever think of where its from I’d love to listen to the whole thing!” She was seeping with eagerness, usually something she lacked on her days off. If she could even call them that. 

Alice could not help the smile that creeped across her face, glad to see there was no ill will. While she may care what peoples opinions of her were, she was still hyper aware of them. In most cases she tried not to gain a negative one immediately. "I'm sure it will come to me in a haze in the middle of the night when I'm half asleep.” It always did without fail. “I’m Alice, by the way.”

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captbarbeau​:

“Oh, well just doing boring errands. I was on my way to pick up Max from the groomers. Very boring things.” He spoke with sarcasm. He knew all too well that most people he knew loved his dog. Max was his best thing about him. And he knew that. For all the time he knew Alice, she had always talked about Wonderland. He truly didn’t know what this strange world she had in her writing. “Wonderland. I should have known.” Erik was supportive with her work. “Could I hear something today?” He pulled out his pocket watch checking the time. “I still have a while before I have get Max back.”

“Quite boring indeed. However, can you stand the mundaneness of it.” Her voice was equally sarcastic, with a little dramatic flair to it. There were days where Wonderland felt like Alice’s whole world and then there were days where it was more like a quiet dream. The world had left its mark on her in so many ways. More than anything she hoped one day she would find a rabbit hole back. “I can tell you a tale, but only if I can tag along to get Max. I need to see his little face.” 

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flynn-ouat​:

“…50 cents for the apples?” he said to himself as he held the red marker over the blank sign as he prepared to set up the fruit stand for the farmers market. “Do you think I could get away with charging people 75 cents per apple?” He never really liked lowballing, but he also knew people were not open to actively paying for more. 

The voice had caught Alice’s attention as she wandered through the market. “I think so. Then again I don’t really know the market price of these things, so I am probably the wrong person to ask.” To her it seemed a fair enough price, one she would be willing to pay. Though she knew that was not the case with everyone.

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journcytothepast​:

Honestly, it’s quite possible that Anya wouldn’t have even noticed the girl in the tree, if not for her humming. It caused her to look up and though she only thought her gaze lasted a moment, clearly it was long enough to be noticed as the humming stopped and words came out. “I was not gawking.” were the first words from her own mouth, “Your humming caught my attention, I wanted to see where it was coming from.” Then she had a question, “What are you doing up there?” Sure, she herself wasn’t a stranger to climbing when she was younger, but it was usually just to show that she could. She wanted to know what her reasoning was.

Alice raised an eyebrow, observing the woman from her perch. “Oh weren’t you? Well my mistake then.” Alice laughed. She could see how her humming was enough to catch one's attention. The only reason for it was to fill the silence, something she had grown to detest. “I've  always liked climbing trees and I like to think I write better up here. Something about my feet being off the ground seems to help.” Alice didn’t have a good explanation for it, she just knew she was able to focus a little more up here.

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wendy-byrd​:

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“I’ve come to gawk, of course,” Wendy said with a laugh. “I imagine your mother would be quite shocked to find you in the trees again, but if you’re looking for new ways to send your suitors packing, this is quite an idea.” Wendy motioned for her friend to come down from the branches. “Please don’t fall, Alice, I cannot live without your stories! What are you writing about today?”

"Oh well then feel free to gawk away." Alice said with a smile. "I'm not sure she'd be shocked by this anymore. Disappointed for sure but not shocked." Grabbing onto the branch, she swung off of it, hanging there for just a moment. "I've been climbing trees my whole life, I promise I won't fall." Letting go, she dropped softly onto the ground. "Wonderland again, there is just so much to tell with it."

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cleverrct​:

He lifted a hand to his face to try and block out the morning sun, a brightness he’d never noticed was so intense before. The voice he heard was familiar but it took him an additional moment to place who it belonged to and what exactly was happening around him. “Alice?” Dimitri groaned again, as though it would be enough to work out all the horrible kinks that had formed in his body through the night. “How is it morning already?” He questioned a glum sort of feeling washing over him as he realized he failed in his task the night before. 

“I can’t say bunkering down here was my intention,” he laughed softly, before another groan escaped him. It was like he could feel every ache in his bones and he knew passing out there was something he’d regret for days. He shifted uncomfortably before slowly pushing himself off the stoop to stand.  “What are you doing about so early?” Dimitri didn’t know Alice too well, but he felt as though it wasn’t too big a surprise to see her out and about at time few others would be. And he was glad it’d been her that found him as opposed to many others in the valley. She was nice, almost too nice for a man of his leisure’s. It had been nearly enough to leave a sour taste in his mouth when she’d come to him for a way out. There were few people who made him regret his choices, but she’d been one of them.  

Her gaze roved over him for a moment. At least he seemed alright, which led to the question of why he had fallen asleep here. "Time can be quite fickle, so easy to lose track of." Alice chuckled. "And what was your intention exactly then?" She asked, raising an eyebrow. The girl was curious and the question simply couldn't be left unasked. She shrugged at his own question. "I don't know. I was awake and didn't feel like sitting around at home." Home, she wasn't even really sure where exactly that was anymore. The house felt so familiar and so alien all at the same time. It was maddening at times and she no longer knew how to feel about it. Alice found that spending less was better for her sanity’s sake.  The town held that same feeling, but it wasn't as bad as the house. "Walking just helps me clear my head I suppose."

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captbarbeau​:

Erik was on his daily walk through town. He had gone through their daily route. But there was something that was different. He saw the young woman hanging in the tree and only one person came to mind as to who it was. He walked up to the base of the tree without saying a word but he made sure she was aware that he rested at the base of the tree. With a loud sigh, Erik leaned his head against the trunk of the tree, his eyes went to Alice. “Well you didn’t give me a chance to.” He smiled pausing for a moment. “Hello Alice. Are you writing  anything interesting today?”

Alice couldn’t help but smile at the familiar voice. Head tilted to the side as she looked down at Erik. “Hello Erik. I believe you had plenty of time to. What are you doing out and about?” She teased. “You know I only write interesting things. I’m writing about Wonderland, my constant work in progress.” It was far from easy to put Wonderland into words and it always felt as if she were leaving something out. So she took her time with it, not wanting to do the land a disservice.

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originalostboy​:

“Me?” He asked surprised. Did he look like someoneof authority. “Nah, you’re fine. I’m not here to stop you. If I didn’t think that tree branch would break with both out weights, I’d probably already be climbing up there to join you.” He’d driven the woman mad who had raised him, Peter had been the child who got all dressed up and then went running through the mud or ripped his clothes while climbing the tree. “I’m Peter,” He offered in introduction. “I could call you girl who climbs trees, but I’m guessing you have a better name then that.” 

“There are other branches you know.” She glanced at the ones surrounding her, quite a few looked sturdy enough. A part of her really wanted to see if he would climb up here with her. “Well it’s nice to meet you Peter.” She thought over the suggested name for a moment before speaking. “I don’t know, that does a nice ring to it. A little long, but I could make it work.” Alice couldn’t help but laugh. “I suppose if you had to call me anything else, it’d be Alice.”

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almxstherexrp​:

On her way to the restaurant she heard a slight hum that mesmerized her. Continuing to follow the path before her she manage to find the source of the sound. Not realizing she was staring until the blonde called her out on it. She lowered her head in shame before speaking to the girl. “I am so sorry, you’re voice just sounds so lovely. Did you write that?” her voice was dripping with curiosity. 

Alice glanced up at the other woman, starting to feel a little bad about snapping at her like that now. “Don’t worry about it, that was a little rude of me” She couldn’t help but  laugh at the next question. “What the melody I was humming. Oh no, I couldn’t write a song to save my life. I don’t remember where I heard it before.” She couldn’t place it and it had been stuck in her head all day. The fact that she wasn't sure bothered her a little.

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ivoryrcse​:

“really, you would think so!” the beauty laughed, “ – but, i guess there are bigger priorities in the world.” she then added with a shrug, “that absolutely sounds like you, alice – no offense or anything.” her friend was anything if not unladylike – sometimes, aurora wished she could have as much wild in her as alice did, but there simply wasn’t a wild bone in her body. “oh, really? i’ll get to work sewing it right away!” aurora exclaimed, absolutely beaming that her friend liked the design. “ – but, what color should it be? that i’ve been stuck on for awhile now,”

"Right I forgot ink stains weren't a crisis." Alice laughed. "Oh none taken, I would've changed by now if I was offended. Besides I think it quite suits me." Perhaps in a different life she would've been more like Aurora, all prim and proper. Would she have been happy in that life or would she long for something else. "Absolutely, I can just picture myself in it now." Alice the other girls work, preferring dresses she designed over others. "You can never decide on a color." Alice teased. "Lavender would look nice, or do you think a darker shade?”

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cleverrct​:

Dimitri stood leaning against the door way of the building just across the street from the card house. The shop behind him had been closed for hours and provided him an optimal dark hiding place for him to lurk for the moment. His dark eyes watched the door across the way carefully, silently praying he wouldn’t be standing around all night. Perhaps if Dimitri hadn’t gotten himself into so much trouble the last time he’d been at the card house, he simply would have gone himself to find who he sought, but the young man was wise enough to know better.

He buried his hand in his pocket and pulled out his watch with a heavy sigh, pushing the small button on the side to reveal the time. “C’mon,” he grumbled quietly under his breath as he closed the watch and shoved it back into his pocket, “I haven’t got all night.” Twenty more minutes, he silently told himself, not entirely willing to give up the whole of his night to the endeavor.

In an attempt to give his legs a little rest, Dimitri sat down, his back still pressed against the door. Unable to stop himself, a yawn escaped him and before he knew it, it happened again and again. He couldn’t say when exactly it happened or how long he’d been sitting there before it did, but Dimitri fell asleep right then and there.

The next thing he was suddenly aware of was a voice he couldn’t quite understand or place pulling him from a dreamless sleep. Dimitri groaned, suddenly feeling the mistake he’d made in every muscles of his body. He didn’t know what time it was exactly, but as he slowly opened his eyes and the morning light assailed him, he could tell it was still early.

Wandering the streets of Avalon had quickly become a favorite past time of Alice's. It was a sort of daily ritual she had slowly developed, mostly born out of a need to explore. She didn’t ever have a destination in mind, she was also never sure what she expected to find on these strolls. Something that would lead her on some grand adventure perhaps. How long had it been since she had a proper adventure, she couldn’t say. Time and memories all seemed to blend together now. 

Alice could say that finding a familiar face asleep in a doorway was not what she expected to find. She had once sought out Dimitri to see if he truly did have a way out of the valley, her curious nature and the hope that he would not let it go. Was she surprised by the outcome of that day, no. Was she disappointed all the same, absolutely. Alice could not just pass him by, which is why she approached him. Lightly shaking his shoulder in an effort to wake him. “Dimitri, you alright? That’s quite an odd place to be sleeping”

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originalostboy​:

So seeing a young woman sitting in a tree wasn’t something you saw every day and yeah, he paused and looked. Or gawked as she claimed not bothering to look up either way. “Hello…” He said offeringi it with a quirk of an eyebrow. “Just wondering what you were going up there.“

Alice paused in her writing, looking down at the man. A small smile gracing her lips at getting a proper greeting.  I'm up simply because I like it and no one was here to stop me. Unless of course that’s why you’re.” Alice tilted her head as she looked him over. “Though I certainly hope not because that would put a damper on things.”

[thecuriousxone]

Feet and skirts dangled from the tree limb as Alice hummed the melody of a lullaby she had forgotten the words to. Perched in the tree the young blonde wrote in her journal, needing to get the words out before she forgot them. The need to write struck her at random, like an itch that would not go away until words were on paper. As she went about the task she had quickly become aware of a pair of eyes on her. Whilst she had little shame she still found starting rather rude. “Are you just going to keep gawking at me or are you at least going to come say hello.” Alice called out, not bothering to look up from her journal.

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ivoryrcse​:

“i’d be lying if i said my desk didn’t have ink stains,” aurora said with a laugh, “ink is impossible to get out of anything! my mother would disagree about chaos, she’d say i’m unladylike” the blonde mused as she looked through her papers until she pulled out a certain one, “here! you’ve got to see this one, it came to me last night,” it was a dress design, a little odd for the village – but she knew alice would love it.

"I know, you would think someone would have figured out how to get it out." Alice laughed. "Oh my mother has said the same thing to me, but I am the queen of unladylike. So what if a little chaos is added. It's at least fun." That she enjoyed herself was what mattered to Alice, so why keep up appearances. Alice looked over the design. "Oh Aurora, I think you have outdone yourself this time. It's wonderful."