Ceres

Ceres | [Word Count: 4663/5 = 932.6] * [True Tier: 5] * [Group Factor: 1] = 4663 EXP, Laurel Wreath: 699 col Scar | [Word Count: 4663/5 = 932.6] * [True Tier: 4] * [Group Factor: 1] = 3730 EXP

“....what….is real….?” The words fell from her lips in a near hushed whisper as Alice lowered herself into a crouch. Eyes shifting to and fro as though she were watching ants marching across the pavement, back and forth and back they ticked. Real… what… was… She forced her eyes closed. The sweet taste of delicate chocolate still lingered upon her tongue. The scents of fresh water from the fountain beside her. “...Real….” She closed her eyes. Her head swam, it hurt. In that moment the erratic woman seemed calm - almost too much so. Sitting silently like a statue, and it wasn’t till one of

“Oh Please!” Borderline begging him to just taste even a sliver of the treat she had given him. In absolute sheer delight. “It’S goOd! SeE!” Alice reached out behind his other ear, then pulled out a second chocolate coin, dropping the flyers she was holding at her feet - she started to unwrap it and then popped it into her mouth. One of the true delights of this place, the food - the food was always so good! So tantalizing! So tasty. I wanted to explore the floors and taste everything… Alice tilted her head at the thought. “Hmm?” She chewed slowly and swallowed before tilting her hea

What are you doing here, Alice?" The nuances were lost on the woman with not one too many screws loose, but all of them. "Me?" Alice bent over backwards, a deft skill of balance till her eyes landed on "Oh!?" She recognized him almost instantly. Alice straightened her back and turned till she faced him, throwing up the fliers into the air, some landed on the floor - others in the nearby fountain. "WELL! Well, well! Isn't this Swell!" A high pitched sing-song voice. Never quite in key - always lilting in pitch and volume. "If it isn't my ONe EYeD JacK!" She took three steps forward, toward

An odd scene was taking place in Tolbana's main square; a woman stood at its center, standing atop a giant black box with a question mark on it, every so often she'd jump off and try to offer someone a piece of paper. Alice handed out another flyer to someone passing by, more so - shoving it into their chest. "Here! You must! you MUST!" The player picked it up, stared at it for a moment then scrunched it up and threw it over their shoulder, completely discarding it. Without a single word to the poor woman. Alice visibly bristled as she stomped over to the crumpled piece of paper, she pick

"That's.. one way to put it, Ceres laughed, “Yeh, I mean -” She pointed to Oscar and Winnie. Then to two women on the couch, then to Mari and Jevi and Lancaster. “See?” Ceres had half a mind to think something was in the air, or the drinks. Maybe the food? Does that mean she shouldn’t have eaten a whole trays worth? “Oh! I saw the flyers too…Oscar. One letter is different from your name. Did you notice that? He makes good food.” But, if you could give me any other name Cinnamon - what would you call me? “Hmm…” Ceres thought for a moment, staring at Alinta, if she were not

Ceres happily accepted the mans hand, using it to pull herself up. "Thanks." She wiped her hand again on her clothing, not thinking about how rude it must be to do so after touching someone - but she still had some dirt, and some kind of sauce on her fingers. She didn't need that. "Everyone here is... really almost inside each other..." She turned her gaze to the dance floor, couples dancing closely. Others far more intimately. Ceres struggled to think about that sort of thing. Not that she couldn't...or didn't have those kind of desires it was more so that... Her voice drifted off, almost air

Her dance partner left. Practically without a word, Ceres placed a finger on her lips - thinking. Maybe...just maybe she shouldn't have said anything about the name she chose, was it considered rude? But, it was the truth. Oh well. Ceres picked up not one, not two, but an entire tray of canapes - little tiny crackers with prosciutto, cheese- and a single sprig of rosemary on them. Not wanting to be beholden to a single spot she began to move around the dance floor, every so often someone would try to snatch one of her special treats away. "No!" She'd hold the tray close to her. "No!

Alice screamed, again and again and again. She didn’t want to go back. She wanted to stay. She wanted to stay here in her wonderland. “Jack and JIll went up ThE Hill. I’m AliCe. I’M ALICE! Oh Jack be NiMBle JaCk be Quick…” Craized whispers as Alice tried to hold onto who she was, tried to drown out a feeble crack in her newly varnished veneer - one that asked her if this was right, the small voice of Ceres that would ask if the insanity was worth it. This isn't who I am Then, came Tybalt - in a flurry of spun confetti and ebbing sanity he flourished in the field, a tip of his hat, a

REd! rED! OH She PiCkeD ReD! Alice gave a happy little dance as she clasped Alintas hands within her own. “ReD!” She screamed at the top of her lungs. “RED! RED! RED!” Alice pulled Alinta close and then smooshed Alinta’s cheeks in her hand. “SO gloRiouS! MarVelouS! I want to See!” Alice wanted to see what kind of colour Alintas insides were. She wanted to see what kind of face she would make. What would the doormouse do? Oh this was so fun! Alice couldn’t help but stand back and clap, then shower Alinta with confetti. “PAPA!” Alice called loudly. “A show! It’s a very merry show! Oh i

The man twitched, itched, but did not move. Could not move? Perhaps!? Too lost in his dreams! So Alice typed out a message to this 'Alinta' person, inviting her along. Scar--> Alinta: Come meet me in the forest! I found something fun! Meet me in WOnderland! "ThEre!" Alice shifted her form up Scars body, leaning against his chest. "Boop!" She'd touch his nose with her finger. "KeEp DreAminG LittLe Doormouse!" A pat against his cheek. "dO you Like it TherE? Oh I bet you Do! I bet it's all WarM and Cozy!" The messages would pop up on his screen, one after the other, but Alice ha

"Hmmm?" Alice watched as he twitched, eyes dancing to and fro. Tears streaking down his face. Crying? Why was he crying? Were his nightmares that bad? But Nightmares were glorious! They would set him free! Break his chains! Maybe he could become something more! Something more than a drab man dressed all in black! "OH! How I want to craWl InSIde youR Head!" The woman stood and began to pace back and forth. There was a problem. "I can't see, no no..." She muttered to herself softly. "He's there, oh yes! He's somewhere, not here, but there! AnywherE? All in his mind! Stuck TraPped EnTwi

"PAapa!" Alice skipped over to Tybalt, wrapping her arms around him as he caught her and spun her around once, twice, thrice! She nuzzled the side of his mask with her face. "I didn'T ExPEct you~ A delight!" She stepped back, patting him down, removing an errant leaf from his shoulder. "Such Heights! What a FrEight!" Alice clapped as Tybalt took a bow. "Red and Blue!" A stomp on the blue rose, discarded on the floor, "Blue and Red!" A stomp on the red rose, crushing it beneath her foot, as it snapped it fizzled and sizzled and the smell of burnt leather permeated from beneath her

“I’M loOking for my ONe. EyEd. Jack….Jack….Jack..Jack…” She started repeating the name over and over again, muttering under her breath like it was a whispered mad mantra. “Jack be nimble Jack be quick. Jack climbs up the bEanStalk, Jack and JiLl climBed up the HiLl…Always…AlWays Jack.” A mind so broken and tattered it struggled to focus on one thing too long, even before she was broken ‘Alice’ struggled to keep her thoughts steady. Now, they whirled around in her head, so fast, so dizzying. All she wanted was a very good show. "Maybe he can help us out.” “Y-You…want to meet my papa!?

The man took a step away from her, and Alice took two steps forward, bouncing to and fro, humming softly, off-tune. The entirety of her just that slightly bit off kilter. As though not everything lined up quite right in that poor deranged and tortured noggin of hers. “Fireball?” Her smile faded. “FiREbaLL!?” She shook her head wildly, “no! No! NO!” She stomped her feet, as though she was having a tantrum, this wouldn’t do. This wasn’t Right! Her hands went to her head, clasping her skull as though it were pounding, Alice shook violently. “No! NO noO noO nO!” Announcing every little p