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[ Alice has been trying to draw in her sketchpad for a while now and it's clear from how wrinkled the piece of paper is, that she's tried to draw on it to no avail. It's been erased numerous times. Right beside her are her imp and her rabbit, as always. She's been quiet at the villa, she's locked herself up acting stranger than before. ]

How funny it is when the mind brings so many images and memories that it cannot even transfer onto a sheet of paper. I know what I see, but it cannot go through my fingertips and onto my paper, unlike so many times before.

[ By the tone of her voice, she means more than that. Guarded as ever, Alice will not say what it is, other than she reluctantly places her pencil down on the paper. Art blocks are terrible, and they're more terrible than before. ]

I am sorry... for my absence. Please don't think of me as silly, but I lost a good companion of my mine. My mare. My horse. I took her in after my first battle, when her owner had fallen. I loved her dearly, she was my friend, too, as much as anyone else I know here.

[ Alice says this while trying not to cry. ]

I loathe to think of another animal as a replacement, but seeing as it is a necessity, I have no other choice. She had fallen in battle when I separated from the others.

[ When she went on her rampage after the Jabberwock, though she's not going to say that. Alice just rubs her rabbit's ears instead while looking at her blank paper. ]

I can try and buy one, if needed, if anyone wants to humor me. I know this is a silly request after everything that has happened -- selfish, even. I think it might be best if I left, for a small while, so I can clear my head and be useful again. No good comes of being a shut-in.

[ After all, ever since she came back, she's been acting stranger and much more distant than before. There is more here that she wants to say; she struggles with saying it. ]

I, well- never mind that. Please be well, all of you.

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[ This surprises her, just a little. ]

Thank you, Lord. Was there? Mister Celegorm was a good compatriot of yours; did he ever mention his horse had kin...?

That I could not say. But we rode from Caer Scima with many horses and men. I should not be surprised if one of those riders of them came with such a beast. But I cannot promise that it is so.

[Nor could he claim to know how to tell which is which. The stablemaster might, though. Or perhaps Alice might simply know from looking.]

That is fine; he said that he favored beasts over men and that he could speak to animals. I respected that and I did what I could to protect his mare.

[ A put out sigh. ]

I could ask his remaining brother, but I worry that would put a strain on him.

Indeed, there would be little gained in Maglor's involvement. [He has no love for Celegorm's brother, but he is content to leave the elf to his own devices.]

Where do you mean to go, now that Caer Scima has fallen?

I left with the others when they left the Barrel; I just wanted to go somewhere for a small while to clear my head.

[ She's going to be a little too awkward in fully admitting she wants to see Lancelot, anyway. That is the next best excuse, anyway. ]

My injuries are healed, it will do me good to walk around, anyway. Especially after using my learned skills in battle. [ that is Alice's way of saying she's used her shard just as he taught her. Unfortunately, the word still bothers her to use. ]

[He knew well enough to know her meaning. He had taught her to use that Shard and he had seen the unnatural way which she had begun to drawn upon it. That did not disturb him. If anything, it had filled him with a kind of pride. The girl might have well been a demon herself.]

The blood granite may help in that. Its properties can be most... relaxing.

[Or so they were for him. It let him have the chance to simply feel like a man and not whatever sort of creature he was now.]

[ Oh, if he could see what she did, then it may fuel that pride. Alice is a little mentally drained at the moment, otherwise, she would show him an example of her hysteria. ]

Is it? After everything associated with it?

[ She looks genuinely surprised? ]

Dragons and foxes, yes. I do not let such thoughts dwell upon me. The blood granite takes away those parts of ourselves that are unnatural and so leaves a calm instead. In that, a deeper kind of strength can be forged. It does not numb pain, but it makes it more endurable.

[Or at least, it did for him. He had changed so much from a man that it was almost intoxicating to experience mortality again.]

I suppose that makes sense, yes, to be leveled out again and the simplicity of it. But the real solution to ones troubles do not come of places or remedies, I think, but through the subconscious. What troubles us most lies deep within. What better way to slay a fear than to confront it where it really lies?

[ Hilariously enough, just like the Jabberwock of Wonderland. ]

Easy said, harder done. Those things I have behind me now. What of you, Alice? Can you confront those things that haunt your soul?

The end results would not be the same, no, it depends on the mind. Of course it isn't an easy task.

And I have and will continue to do so.

You sound very bold about it. [Yet he is unconvinced. He knows the demons she struggles against, even if he could not name them. He had seen that well enough in her training. Things of that nature were not banished merely by saying so.]

But as long as others believe you, that shall suffice. where will you go now?

I am bold about it. [ She wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't unconvinced; but Alice doesn't have to prove herself to others, only herself. And the red queen as well, the real instigator of Alice's anger. This is the rare times she will ever be assured in her own skills and abilities. ]

Wherever I am needed, I suppose. For now, I need air to breathe.

Some time alone will do you good. Clarity comes from silence. I have spent long enough to know that.

[He had a good dose of centuries of silence to give him the clarity of purpose he feels now.]

It does help, yes, in certain doses.

[ It also drives one insane, but she's not about to say that. ]

But you have already determined your course.

[He concludes it for her. It's clear that she has no use for anything he's said, since she's dismissed or refuted all of it thus far, save for the offer of the stables.]

Yes and no.

[ She has her reasons; if she wasn't so guarded on the other hand. ]

You can determine a course, but it is not always the way it turns out to be, even in your own world, no matter how much you plan for it. Survival is adaptability to change. After all, isn't that what makes the Unseelie so grand? It is not in my nature to be vague out of spite, I only tentatively assert my plans, for now, because I wait for my course to unfold in front of me.

[He chuckles dryly.]

How very philosophical of you. Perhaps I was wrong to suggest time alone. You've evidently had ample amounts of it already.

Unfortunately, more than you can imagine.

[ About ten years worth of it, really. ]

If I asked you if you had spare time for more instruction, Lord Ganondorf, would you be able to?

[ He should at least be able to see her newest ability, anyway. ]

There are many things that demand my attention, Alice. However, if you wish to accompany me for a time, I will instruct you as time permits. Soon, I mean to turn my attention to the east.

[The North might be broken, but there was still yet ten spires up there to guard it. Mair stood alone and apart and so it fell upon him to strengthen it by his own means.]

[ Admittedly, amongst her delusions and hallucinations, the world had become narrow. She hadn't even considered that, to be completely honest. ]

That is absolutely understandable.

[ Alice does nothing to hide the grimace. ]

I would very much like to, of course, by your convenience as well, Lord.

In two week's time, I will be turning my attentions eastward. You may accompany me as I bring my new holdings under Mair's laws and protections. There will be ample opportunity for you to learn and act.

[He does not yet know he will have to it with the Roc's interference, but that will ultimately suit his needs anyway.]

Good. I want to learn more.

[ It'll be a good combination with her new, unlocked power. Though now there's a new situation she finds herself in that she must keep Lancelot up to date if she leaves, too. It won't be an issue, it's a new feeling. ]

You have my thanks.

[Gratitude is not something he quite knows what to do with. It's an almost unnatural concept for a people who primarily took what they needed. Even so, he accepts it for what it is.]

It will benefit us both for you to continue to grow. Caer Scima may be fallen, but there is much that can be done for Mair still.

Mm.

[ If it makes her more formidable in a fight, she's for it. Lending her support again is still something she's inwardly debating. ]

Of course. Do take care of yourself in the meantime, lord.

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