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[A pair of large, tawny eyes fill the picture to start with. After a moment Cy shuffles back, revealing the scruffy face of a tabby. Her fur looks dirty and unkempt, and there's glimpse of something shiny beneath the fur on her forehead. Something metal.

She rolls over, kitten like in her appearance as well as her mannerisms. When she speaks she's cheerful, not seeming overly concerned about the unfamiliarity of her surroundings.]

Wow, Alice! You've taken a wrong turn this time. Down the rabbit hole you go.

My name's Cy. Cy for Sightseer. Cats don't belong down rabbit holes, you know. It's bad for business. Rabbits don't like us, see.

[She rolls back on her front, looking as though she's pondering this for a long moment before she speaks again, tongue swiping over her lips before she breaks her silence.]

I'm hungry.

[ooc: It would be super helpful if you could please fill out Cy's permissions if you tag her so I know whether I can use her powers or not.]

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I woke up backwards. Everything's new.

[So basically yes.]

That sounds like every day here, I know how you feel. [Okay, this just got weird.] There are a lot of people here who will be happy to help out though, and give information where you need it. I would offer but I've only been here a few months, and I feel there are others who know better than I do.

That's okay. I have the guidebook. It's all up here. Soon I'll hear it all.

[Or enough to get by with anyway.]

[Quietly impressed.]

You could read it okay? Are there any parts that don't make sense?

Read? [She looks puzzled.]

It's all up in my head, Billy. Don't you know how hearing works?

[Wondering if he's somehow missed half the conversation.]

Well how did it get up there if you didn't read it? [Pauses.] What did you call me?

I heard it. [Her ears twitch and there is a definite hint of irritation in her voice.]

I called your name. Don't you know that either?

[Never thought he'd manage to irritate a kitten. Today is a day of many firsts.]

It's William, I just don't remember saying it.

Of course you did. [She looks vaguely worried for him.] Is your brain clogged too?

I didn't say it with my mouth. Are you hearing what I'm thinking somehow?

[A psychic cat? What? Well, it can't be any less plausible than a talking cat, right? Right? Maybe he should go lie down for a bit.]

It's not clogged.

Aren't you?

[She's not fully convinced his brain isn't clogged. He's definitely acting as though it is. She peers closely at the screen. He might be right about lying down.]

Maybe you should. Sleep heals all they say. That's what I did and now look at me!

No, I can't hear people's thoughts, it's not something that's normal back home....

Oh that's okay, I slept last night and I have to keep an eye on ... [Just glances over his shoulder at the lion cub who is now snoozing in a pile of shredded bed sheets.]

...him. [Here's to hoping he can train the lion cub out of doing that.]

Wow! No wonder you're slow.

[She... doesn't seem to realise that could potentially be insulting. She's already moved on from that train of thought and is tilting her head.]

Why call it training? You only have to ask.

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...Thanks?

I don't speak the same...language as him, so just asking him to not shred the bed sheets doesn't really work. But that's okay, I don't mind teaching him not to do it.

[She decides not to point out that cats can understand humans even if humans aren't usually smart enough to understand cats. That's the other cat's secret to share.

That said, he seems nice. She decides to at least give him a hint.]

Bite his ear, Billy. He'll soon grow out of it.

I'll look into it, though to be honest he has bigger teeth than me, so it might not be so good if he decides to bite back.

[Shrugs. And well, it's William, but if the kitten wants to call him Billy, who is he to take that away from them?]

Where are you from, Cy?

Size isn't everything. It's all in the mind.

[She should know. She's pretty tiny herself. Totally ignoring that mental correction because shhhh, it's Billy. Billy suits him.]

Everywhere! I'm from here now. It's where I woke up.

Exactly. Everyone knows the fables in the old books where size isn't everything. Which is why I won't put it past him to beat me hands down if it comes to it.

Don't tell anyone I said that though.

Where were you before you woke up?

The warehouse. [Her eyes widen, and she yowls high and loud.] The Alchemist! Hi ho, Silver! Look out!

[Cy skitters around in a tight, anxious circle then curls herself in a ball. She watches him from beneath a paw.]

I don't want to talk about it. Tell me where you came from.

[Nothing about that reaction is normal, but at least William is paying enough attention to know that talking about the "Alchemist" is a great big no go area. Fair enough.]

A place called Vega. It's a big city in America.

Wowee! [She still seems a little wary from her scare, but her curiosity's piqued.]

I've never been to America. You should take me there, Billy boy. I want to share the crocodile's tears.

[There's something a bit disheartening when it comes to a kitten being scared, so William is a bit thankful she's cheered up a little.]

Well, we can't get there from here. There's no way out of Wonderland that we know of. But uh, crocodile's tears?

They live there.

[She knows they do. She's been told.]

[Actually has to think about it. When one is raised in Vega, they don't get to leave the city and live behind walls that are two miles wide. William is lucky enough to have had the most expensive of educations, but he can't say he's been out of the surrounding areas much.]

Oh, you mean in Florida. There are alligators in the swamps in Florida. That place is probably overrun with them by now.

Florida! I'm going. They have nice teeth.

[Granted that's not exactly what Sealink said in her stories, but it's what she got out of it.]

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