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[ on what must be one of the first days of relative peace, a feed opens to present a newcomer. Leia is dressed as she normally would, all in white, collar high. The clothes she came with have been tossed away but there is nothing she can do about the ugly bruise on her neck, circular, red. it would turn to purple in a few days and is a dead giveaway for a collar of metal that bit into her skin until very recently.

her palms tell a story too, skin peeling at places, red and irritated from when she pulled on metal. However, it'd be difficult to pass her for the slave girl whose part she'd been forced to play. There's an air of authority to her even now.

Oh, and there's the blaster she tucks just beneath her belt, a touch of black on an otherwise white palette. ]

Well, this is rich.

[ biting with just a hint of sass but then, she seems to realize her message is finally being sent. ]

I see no practical reason for so much technology when we all live in the same cell.

[ this is what she calls this, a cell. A prison is a prison, vast as it may be. ]

But if you hear my message, know I mean you no harm. I understand I've come in a time of great peril [ somehow, she senses it in the very air around the halls ]. My own world is in great peril as well, it is urgent that they'll receive any help available if they're to see our mission done.

[ a beat. ]

We share the same predicament, I ask that we share information as well. If there is anything worth knowing about this system, I'd hear it and if any assistance is needed, I will supply.

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Well, I'm used to attempts on my life. The part about questioning reality is new but I expect I'll get used to that, too.

[ just another day at the office, eh? she lifts her chin and crosses her arms and stubbornly accepts a difficult situation for what it is. hardly anything to be done about it at the moment. ]

The punishment was this severe that it affected the entire Mansion? I must say I'm not surprised.

[directed]

Unfortunately. [No, Rip is not at all a fan.] Supposedly, the key is to accept that, given enough time, nothing will work as you expect it to.

[Rip's still having trouble with that concept.

She puts on a good face, however. Leia hardly seems daunted by the prospect, which is better than how many fare upon their arrival. Rip personally had gotten rather irritated by the whole thing.

Taking apart his closet in an attempt to see how it functioned had been a good way to let off steam in the aftermath of his own introduction.]

Yes; it would seem as if the ruler of that side of this dimension doesn't do things in small measures. [Not if she saw fit to unleash so much of her force in the wake of a single portal opening.] It's been one of the more unpleasant experiences we've all had as of late, I think.

[revolter]

Do you mean the Queen?

[ leia heard word of one in her different conversations with people. a mysterious figure but she noticed that no one had anything good to say about the woman. she's not surprised, if the woman has anything to do with it, then she is more their enemy than anything else. ]

The Queen of Hearts, I hear she calls herself.

[directed]

Indeed I do. [Followed by a short nod when Leia clarifies the woman's title. But it does bring up another hurdle, of sorts. Many come from worlds where the story of Alice exists in some variant or form, perhaps even several. But if the flurry of texts he's gotten from Ray Palmer are any indication?

This woman may not have that particular frame of reference.]

For many of us, this world shares a great number of similarities with a work of fiction that exists where we come from. Specifically, certain novels by a man named Lewis Carroll. In them, the Queen of Hearts is a rather vicious ruler with short temper—which would seem to be a trait shared by the Queen of Hearts that exists here.