voice testing....

[milliners]

I don't know where I am or where I've been, but so long as I'm somewhere I've been, I'll soon be there again. I do hope that I won't miss the unbirthday party, although I also wonder how or when I might end up getting there (should I end up getting there), wherever there might be.

Oh, now, what was that? You don't like what? Tea?! You don't like tea? No! No, this is completely unacceptable, it's as acceptable as an un can be! I don't know how you expect me to stay here without the promise of any tea, it just can't be done. Having an unbirthday party without any tea? None at all? It just doesn't work, it's entirely impassible!

I don't know how you expect a hatter such as myself to stay when there's nothing worth staying for! Why, you're asking too much and you're not asking anything much at all! This entire situation is almost as mad as I am!

Comments

[notoflegend]

Well, I think I can agree on the "mad" part.

[milliners]

Well, yes, most people can!

[notoflegend]

Though maybe not about the tea.

[milliners]

You don't like tea either? What is this place?

[comeonthensexy]

They don't like tea? Those people exist?

[milliners]

Not only do they exist, but there's one here, in our midst. I can't believe my mun hates tea. It's a disgrace and it's a travesty! I mean, really. My mun, hating tea. You couldn't find a more mismatched couple of people if you tried, and you'd be trying for a long time indeed!

[comeonthensexy]

That is awful, I am so sorry. I can't believe it.

[milliners]

It is exactically as unbelievable as anything can be, yes. Why, I'm the Mad Hatter! I can't possibly do without tea.

[madcuriosity]

Your writer doesn't like tea? [Alice grins. Ha, take that!] I would let you have some tea with me and my writer, but I'm not sure I should, going about mad people and all.

Nothing is as mad as you are, Mr. Hatter, except perhaps Cheshire Puss but I do wonder at that even. At least he knows things rather than just sitting all day drinking tea.

[milliners]

She doesn't like any hot drinks! _{[ wow um excuse u alice. have a very unimpressed face for your trouble. ]} You're among mad people wherever you go, Alice! We're practically voices in someone else's head, haven't you realised that yet?

I've never been more insulted in my life! Sitting around, drinking tea is perhaps the best thing anyone could do with their time, as it's always time for tea and it's perhaps always the best time to drink!

[madcuriosity]

Not a one? Not even hot chocolate? Does she at least like iced-tea then? How can she not like tea? Tea can come in all sorts of ways, after all! And at least the voices make sense, Mr. Hatter.

Well, that's not terribly hard for you to be insulted, something usually comes along to insult you, after all. And if all you do is drink tea, when do you make hats?

[milliners]

Not a single one! She likes cold things, yes, but not iced tea. There's no tea fondness within her at all! In fact, she rather resents it, and I can't quite force myself to figure it all out. Do they, Alice? I wouldn't be inclined to drink tea with them, if that's what you're saying. After all, sense is relative, isn't it? There's good sense and common sense - who can tell who has what?

But that doesn't stop me from being insulted! You're a short, stubborn little thing with far too much Time, even when Time himself stopped working! I drink tea and make hats at the same time, of course.

[causeiwearahat]

Can you miss it, if it's an unbirthday party?

[This sounds like one of those thoroughly kid-like notions picked up from a thoroughly childish story...]

[But we're all mad as Hatters here, so he'll go along with it.]

[milliners]

Perhaps not the unbirthday, but certainly the party.

_{[ why, you seem somewhat familiar, sir. ]}

[causeiwearahat]

All the more reason to hold another party then, innit?

[It must be the very fine hat on his head.]

[Or something]

[milliners]

Whoever says that the party stops?

_{[ well, it is quite a lovely hat - and hatter would know. ]}

[extraordinaryboy]

[...] What's tea? And what's a hatter? Is that why you have such a big hat?

[milliners]

You don't know what tea is?! And I'm a hatter, that's me! My hat isn't big, it's just fine! Well, it fits me just fine, anyway.

_{[ ... subconsciously taps his hat. omg why are you so mean peter ]}

[extraordinaryboy]

Of course I know what tea is! You don't know what tea is! [Peter can NEVER admit defeat. He gives a look] No, your hat is just really really big. You could hide things in it. [Brightens] Is that why it's so big, are you hiding treasure in it?!

[intotheopenair]

Mah mun likes her tea, and is a bit confused as tae why yer mun doesn't... Something about tea being a lifegiver or something.

[milliners]

Apparently, she's just never been a fan! I just don't understand it, it doesn't make any sense - it's almost as though she's got a personal vendetta against it!

_{[ which is obviously the worst thing that could ever happen in hatter's opinion. ]}

[intotheopenair]

[...] Ah don't think ye c'n have a personal vendetta against tea [...]

[growthspurts]

I've heard many a ridiculous thing in my time, Mr. Hatter, but I don't think I've ever heard something quite as ridiculous as someone hating tea, let alone that rare someone having any sort of ties with you. And after all the absurd things, that being near the top of the list is a certain feat.

[milliners]

Well, Alice, absurd things do tend to happen around me, and I've no idea why!

_{[ perhaps it's because he's mad? who knows. ]}

[growthspurts]

[ Alice thinks it's exactly that even. ]

I imagine it has quite something to do with you being so mad, really - absurd things follow absurd people, it's simply the way of it all.