Application sent in for paixaorpg

[madcuriosity]

We have to wait for a response?

[That her writer only JUST sent in the application doesn't matter to her.] But...

[She sighs and pouts. Being patient is so terribly difficult.]

Will it take terribly long?

[That her writer doesn't know also doesn't matter to Alice. Writer can be patient, muse cannot.]

Well, I can't help that I can't be be patient!

Comments

[usual]

Can't be patient?

[ mouse's tail twitches to and fro ]

Ehe~ Alice is really a kid, after all...

[madcuriosity]

Well... I try to be patient... but the waiting makes me curious.

[usual]

I don't mind waiting. Waiting isn't bad. Hm~ But Alice is different, mm. Different.

[ pierce gets all "awawawa" at the prospect of going a place. so brave, alice! ]

[madcuriosity]

I don't feel very different sometimes... there are all sorts of Alices out there.

[usual]

No-- Alice is different. Special. Each one. It's hard to explain, but this Alice is different than the one who I found...

...strange. It's a little strange.

[madcuriosity]

Ah, thank you, Mr. Mouse. You're different from the Dormouse I know as well. He's a much more sleepy mouse.

[usual]

More sleepy...? Ah... Poor mouse. [ sympathy for a fellow mouse, of course ] I'm sleepy too, but I have to stay awake. So, coffee...

[madcuriosity]

[She scrunches her nose.] Coffee is icky.

[usual]

Yeah... Yeah, it doesn't taste very good, but I love coffee. It keeps me awake. So, it's okay even if it doesn't taste good.

[madcuriosity]

If it doesn't taste good I wouldn't ever wish to drink it. Why do you need to stay awake?

[usual]

B-because... If I fall asleep, I'll be eaten...

[madcuriosity]

Won't Mr. Hatter and the March Hare protect you?

[usual]

Ah-- Well, I don't live with boss and Elli-chan. I live in the forest, so... [ even so he doubts they would. ah, wonderland ]

[madcuriosity]

You don't? [Another difference between her Wonderland and the other Wonderland, she supposes.] But... they're your friends, aren't they?

[usual]

I don't think-- Mm-mm. I don't think boss or Elli-chan like me that much.

I left it a while ago. It's scary, the twins are there... And I can't drink coffee. [ NO COFFEE ALLOWED thanks to Blood Dupre. ]

[madcuriosity]

I'm sure they like you much more than you think. You seem to think so very low of yourself, after all... which I think is a little silly since you're so tall for a mouse.

[usual]

Alice is gentle, even though I'm a mouse. [ pause ] Tall? No, no, I'm your usual kind of mouse. Though I can get smaller, too.

[madcuriosity]

Well you're much taller than me, that isn't a normal size for a mouse.

[usual]

Eh? But I'm a usual mouse. Very usual.

[ thought... ] But Alice is from a different world, are they different? Mice. How big are they there?

[madcuriosity]

[Alice holds out her hand.] No bigger than my hand, smaller than that, I should think.

[usual]

No bigger? How small. Alice's mice are very small. But-- I can get small, too.

[ AND JUST LIKE THAT he shrinks down to the size Alice just indicated and seems rather proud ]

[madcuriosity]

Ah! So tiny! [She crouches down, careful of Pierce.] What a wonderful skill you have. I think I much rather would have had this happen to me than having to drink a "DRINK ME" or "EAT ME," or a mushroom. Seems much simpler and you know which size you'd like.

[usual]

Ehe. [ PROUD PROUD ] My shrinking medicine doesn't taste bad, though. And it doesn't talk if I ask it not to. It's a good medicine, even Alice wouldn't mind drinking it.

[madcuriosity]

Your medicine can talk? [She's not sure she'd want to talk to medicine.]

[usual]

Of course. [ he says like it's completely normal ] But usually only when it takes too long to drink it. It gets kind of impatient.

[madcuriosity]

What a most peculiar medicine! Why would you want it to talk, though?

[usual]

...? It's normal for it to.

[madcuriosity]

Much more normal, I should think.