Alice rolled her eyes as a particularly talkative and obnoxious individual rushed into the cafe and began blabbering about nothing. How could one talk so much and say so little? Nothing like Alice, whose each word carried the weight of the universe in its expulsion, drawing people in with its sheer mass and its... its profound [i]bigness[/i]. Her words alone made satellites of their observers, and were fantastic not only in hugeness but elegance. He could learn a thing or two.

With a self-satisfied smirk on her face, Alice began setting a table up. Her tea set had a variety of things, including a beautiful lace tablecloth which Alice draped over the table, making one small portion of the cafe far more elegant and far less low-class. Sitting down, she waited for Aria to finish her work and looked over at Ellie.

"Kukuku~ obviously, every second not in my lovely presence would feel more like a year. How you last without me, I'll never know."

Her eyes narrowed, however, after considering exactly what sort of 'greeting' Ellie was planning to give her. Alice snatched the letter away from the woman with one hand, and tapped her noggin using a saucer with the other.

"Bad girl," she said, affixing Ellie with an imperious glare that carried the full weight of her bigness, "how often must I scold you before you learn? You shouldn't go around touching girls like that. Get on your knees and apologize properly."

Alice looked down at her letter and opened it, depositing the card onto the table.

"Hmph. Doubtless, the first part of a fifty-two part gift from one of my adoring fans. Ugh, we shan't be able to play a proper game with just this! Really, what must they have been thinking?"

Indeed, it was a card with a significance that went completely over Alice's head, for the girl had never actually read Alice in Wonderland. Nor had she seen any of the hundred adaptations. In fact she was waiting until her English was good enough to read it in its native language because, although she was a westaboo, her English was absolutely dreadful.