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♛ 7th Curious Thought [Video]

[Alice is beaming proudly as she looks at the bracelet. The more observant will notice a slight scratch on her cheek and nose. Nonetheless, she looks very pleased with herself.]

It took me all day but I did it! I did it I did it! [She's bouncing.]

I made myself a pet! Oh but not any sort of pet! No no, I made Marigold!

Would you all like to meet him? I thought it would be a much nicer topic than the gloomy sorts people have been commenting on. [Because dead people? No, thank you. She has had enough of all of that.]

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[A gryphon. Of course, he might have known.]

Really? Not a mock turtle?

[Maybe this is a bit dangerous, or at the very least silly, but he's curious to see what she'll say.]

[He knew about the Mock Turtle?

No, surely not, but perhaps he knew of Mock Turtle Soup! Most everyone knew of that, though Alice was never really fond of it's taste.]

Hmm? Oh ah no! [Too much crying, not that she wasn't fond of him, but he always cried so! Although... perhaps if she made a gryphon she should make a mock turtle to keep him company. It wouldn't be right for one not to have the other.]

Though perhaps I shall have to make both. [The mock turtle and gryphon were friends, after all.]

[Ooops what has he done. Not that he's terribly sorry about it.]

When you do, please tell me. I should like to meet a mock turtle.

[This is just getting more and more interesting. Is she the Alice from the story, then? Or did she just read about it?]

Well, do be careful what you say around him, sir. The Mock Turtle is very nice but very prone to crying. Although I suppose I would too if I were to always end up in a soup. You know, I've had mock turtle soup, I'm not really very fond of it and that was even before I met him!

Mmm, yes... [He remembers.] I shall take great care when speaking to him, I can assure you.

I'm afraid I've never had the chance to try mock turtle soup; perhaps it's for the best. I do dislike the notion of eating sentient beings.

Oh, do you not eat chicken or the sort? Or... what... does sentient mean, exactly? [Hello new word she has no idea what the meaning is.]

It means being a higher form of life, mostly. Being able to carry on intelligent conversation--well. That might be pushing it a bit with some forms of sentient life.

A chicken, for example, would not be a form of sentient life. You and I, however, are.

Oh, yes! It's why I've stopped eating lamb... and meat pudding.

[...that wasn't what he meant at all.]

The word to describe what you are is 'vegetarian', my dear, meaning that you prefer not to eat meat. That's quite a different thing, though I suppose the principle is more or less the same.

[Though not wanting to eat thinking beings was a bit different in his book, he knew plenty of people who thought it wasn't different at all.]

Oh no, that isn't me at all. I like cow and pheasant and fish just fine. But lamb, meat pudding, and rabbit I don't eat anymore... especially after having spoken with them. After having conversations with a rabbit, you tend not want to eat them anymore. Although! I had a very cross pigeon mistake me for a serpent all because I liked eggs! Isn't that simply dreadful? I'm no serpent!

Ah... oh yes, that's right. Mmm. I see.

[That certainly makes sense. About the rabbit at least.]

Yes, well, birds can be a bit... silly like that, particularly pigeons. They tend to be rather feather-brained, you see.

[He's probably talking nonsense.]

[She giggles.]

No smart birds in the universe, Doctor Kitty? I hear parrots are terribly clever.

Now, I never said that; there are actually quite a few bird races out there that are quite clever.

Pigeons, however, are decidedly not among them.

[And the race he's thinking of was rather foolish in their own way, despite how clever they were in many respects.]

Hmm, well that's quite good thing, I think, considering how many of them there are. Besides, they are one of my least favorite birds... and not just because one pecked at me and called me a serpent.

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