dear_mun | On family and pseudo families.

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On family and pseudo families.

You must know that I feel strongly about protecting them still and that will not change. I couldn't do the same for the children at Houndsditch and stop the Dollmaker before he corrupted Wonderland, that this is the least I can do.

It is disheartening, mundane, than despite my best efforts, I cannot shield them. They deserve to live and act like normal girls, even for a day! I wish that I had the power to make it so. And I wish that Lizzie could have stayed longer so that she could have met everyone else.

Why must things of this nature constantly work against me? Perhaps I am destined to be forever misfortunate. I want to be so much like Lizzie and I feel as if I am faltering.

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I was able to see you grown up and that was enough for me, Alice.

Silly little sister, you can only be you. Have I not taught you to be a good sister?

[ Little sister would beg to differ for a multitude of reasons. Alice is very hard on herself, after all. ]

Yes, you have, but I am nowhere near as good as you.

[Would she have liked to stay? Yes. But that just isn't something she can say out loud.]

You never will be. You can only be as good as Alice. Protect them as you are and not as anybody else, that would be enough.

[ As Alice steels herself up, words of others are coming back to haunt her. ]

With what? Ellie and Clementine got into trouble and I told Ellie to come get me if she were ever in trouble again. Let's just say she wasn't very happy about that.

I don't want them to be hurt and it feels no matter how hard I try, I am not very good.