http://thethirdqueen.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] thethirdqueen.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] realityshifted2009-01-15 08:16 pm

Arrival the First

[On the Plane is a girl. She is a perfectly ordinary looking girl with blonde hair, wearing a perfectly ordinary looking pinnafore and frock and stockings and shoes. She has a finger to her lips and is being very thoughtful at the moment. That is to say, her head is currently filled with a large number of thoughts, as well as a few very short poems and the first three items of the shopping list hung on the refrigerator (which happened to be bread, pickles and butter, in that order). She walks and muses, seemingly oblivious to the Plane.]

Oh, but it is rather strange to have them written as such. I do wonder what Mother was thinking, to put pickles between bread and butter. Why, I should think such a thing would taste dreadful! If I were to write the shopping-list, I believe I should put bread and butter at the top with jam and scones, and pickles should go farther down near the bottom. Or perhaps they shan't go on at all, for I am not that fond of them, afterall. Yes, I do believe I would exclude them entirely, though doing so might make them rather cross. I should certainly hate to see a pickle crossed, for one can never be too certain of what would happen. They can be ever so bitter, or so I have heard.

[Alice stops walking and puts her hands on her hips, looking around with a frown.]

Bother, but this is taking ever so long. Have I gone the wrong way again? Things all seem right-side-in when I was certain they would be right-side-out... certainly if one is often right- side-out, then when one is through a Looking-Glass, one should be right-side-in or wrong-side-out or both-sides-in or both-sides-out, though I expect that would be rather awkward. If both sides were in or out, then there shouldn't be anything inbetween and I daresay they wouldn't be sides at all.

[Having reached some semblance of a decision, she starts walking again.]

Hm! I wonder which way leads to the stair-case. I should rather like to see outside before I go back to Dinah and the kittens.

[identity profile] fireintothesky.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[.... ._.] Through a Looking-Glass?

[identity profile] galeforcehero.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Here, have another fictional character. <3]

There really isn't any right way to go 'round here, I'm afraid. Best we can figure is that it just goes on and on forever, more or less. Which isn't to say that it's a good thing or a bad thing, it's just a true thing, which you can take or leave as you like.

Is this your first time here?
mercwamouth: (arms crossed pose)

[personal profile] mercwamouth 2009-01-16 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
...Heh.

Suppose after Wonderland, this place must seem like a dentist's office, huh?

[identity profile] fireintothesky.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Are you... are you... Is your name Alice?
mercwamouth: (smile)

[personal profile] mercwamouth 2009-01-16 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
This isn't that fancy. No mirrors, no mushrooms, no LSD, you just think your way in and out.

[identity profile] wheat-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Fufufu, it is quite a articulate person that we meet today. You have stepped through a Looking Glass? Is that not what humans call "mirrors"?

[identity profile] galeforcehero.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Never been inside a looking-glass myself, though I've seen more than my fare share of magic ones. Testy things, you know-- only answer you when you ask your question in rhyme. Awful annoying, after awhile.

Well, let's assume you haven't been here before, for the time being, since if I were you I'd definitely not forget a place like this. It's actually a machine, if what everyone says is true, and I'm still not sure about that.

[identity profile] wheat-wolf.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
So that would be true! But I suppose you are correct. I shall be sure to call it a looking glass, since that does seem quite a bit more accurate.

[identity profile] galeforcehero.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think we're inside a looking-glass at all. Seems to be that getting here is different for everyone-- I get here from just off of the Yellow Brick Road, after all, and there's no mirrors around there.

Oh, you oughta stay nice and clean, here-- that's assuming nobody spills anything on you. People 'round here are a bit... different.

[identity profile] galeforcehero.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Nobody really does. You'll get used to it, I s'pect.

Oh no, they're all very... unique. I'd say "strange", but it's not that strange to me.

[identity profile] soimpressive.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[he does a bit of a doubletake]

Alice, I presume.
lamb_of_gold: (oh hey it's a shiny!)

[personal profile] lamb_of_gold 2009-01-16 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
A looking glass? That is odd, even for this place.
mercwamouth: (what the deuce?)

[personal profile] mercwamouth 2009-01-16 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
...You're a very disturbed little girl.

...And I think you're making me hungry.

[identity profile] savagestime.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
What a precocious little girl.

[identity profile] harlequinades.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 10:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Harley has been listening to all that and finally decides to ask, because it's bugging her.]

You aren't friends with that crazy Hatter, are ya? I hear he likes girls that talk like you. The whole looking glass thing.

[A Batman villain styled after Wonderland is too much to pass up.]

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