[@The Jest]

[B]The High Priestess - Meredith Fong[/b]

"I think the rabbit thinks you're too much of fuddy-duddy for Carroll," said a bright, lightly accented voice.

From the tall grass beside Alice, a youth clad in a black, furred jacket suddenly sat up, blades of green having managed to find their way into her flowing locks of hair while she wasn't looking. She gingerly reached up to pull a dead leaf out of her fringe, moving it in front of her vivid red eyes. The girl blinked twice, brows furrowing in confusion. For a second, it appeared as if she was about to say something, but evidently she had decided against it, for instead she pushed herself up from the cold dirt, arms swinging lightly as she got used to standing up again.

Standing up.

The thumb and forefinger of her right hand gently pulled away from one another, dropping the leaf that they once held. Meredith Fong watched as it fell, another thought seeming to occur to her as her eyes followed the leaf's slow descent. She'd stood up pretty easily, right? In her dreams, it was always really hard to run or stand or climb because the blankets (and the pull of Earth's gravity) were in the way. Except she hadn't faced any iota of difficulty when she had gotten off the ground (which was remarkably realistic in how cold and grass-and-dirt-like it was). That wasn't anything she had experienced in a dream before.

Unless it was an incredibly vivid one, but she was able to question herself about it being a dream too, so maybe it wasn't a dream?

She leaned over, stretching her arms out towards her feet with a light, pondering hum. There was the sensation of her muscles exerting themselves, which definitely wasn't something that was very ... she searched her brain for a right word ... dreamy? Meredith shook her head; dreamy was probably an adjective that worked. If it was a dream, which was something that was being supported by her wearing her outdoorsy clothes instead of her PJs, then it [i]really[/i] was a vivid one.

That was exciting!

A Carrollesque talking rabbit, very realistic grass, some other people who all looked very unique and distinct, if this was the result of her brain doing cartwheels while she was off dozing in the land of REM, then she had to give it a gold star. It was a very ten-out-of-ten creation.

Meredith stood back up, her arms now stretching behind her head instead. Her gaze slowly surveyed her surroundings, settling upon the girl next to the rabbit. She hadn't gotten a good look earlier (mostly because she was lying on the ground, and that certainly was a weird way to get into a dream), but now that she was on the same vertical axis as the one described as unexpectedly adult ...

"You don't actually look too old," she remarked, cocking her head to the side with a smile. "Actually, you don't look that much older than me, unless you really aged gracefully?"