Tribulation 2 [Video]

[controlsthedie]

[ On the screen is Death Incarnate, cheeks taking on a faint golden blush. Thanatos looks like he'd rather be doing anything else besides making this post. Mort sits on his shoulder and eats a cookie in tiny bites. While an animate plush mouse, there is something smug about Mort's expression. He knows what he did, and he is proud of it. ]

The dining carriage is set with a number of baked goods. Please help yourself and don't let them go to waste. You can even take some to save for later.

[ After what happened in the Void earlier and the reunion of some from the platform, extra treats aren't so bad... Thanatos supposes. Mort had a good idea for boosting moral and reducing stress. Still, he wishes Mort had talked to him first before deciding to order a crate of baked goods costing 150 points....

Thanatos will be found in the dinning carriage writing in his notebook while Mort rides around on the mini-chariot Idia made him, eats snacks, and tries to make Thanatos eat some as well. ]

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[controlsthedie]

[ Thanatos tries a small bite from his fork. The crumbly bits on top, while messy, also gives something more to the muffin. It vaguely reminds him of the time he was turned back into a godling and enjoyed getting his hands messy with flour and dough.

He smiles faintly. This is nice... maybe he is allowed to enjoy things like this. From time to time. And because there is just so much of it. ]

From what I saw... [ During those illusions they shared. ] ... Wonderland had a lot of different things growing in all sorts of colors.

[ He takes another bite. Mort seems pleased by this and goes to nab some other snack to try. Thanatos can have the whole half. ]

What other kinds of muffins are you familiar with?

[irrationally]

Back in London?

[ It's always an important distinction to Alice to make. After all, she basically has two worlds - though only one of them ever felt truly hers, compared to the way she almost felt invasive in London, like the world was actively trying to push her out, considering her an enemy.

Still, she asks it very calmly. Maybe it's since the mood is so light here. Just two friends sitting there, eating muffins together.

Thanatos giving himself something to enjoy for once. ]

Or in Wonderland?

[controlsthedie]

[ Thanatos almost asks if there is a difference but stops himself before even opening his mouth. Of course, there is a difference to Alice. It's just not something he considered also applying to food. ]

Wonderland. I think I'm more familiar with that than London.

[ Or the illusionary version he briefly glimpsed. "London" had been a mix of his own terrors and hers. No muffins there. ]

[irrationally]

[ Thankfully Thanatos has opted for the more delightful version. It makes Alice look a little more free, a little younger, like she doesn't have to burden herself with thinking about anything too heavy right now.

Instead she can just look back on the nice memories. ]

Oh, I have grown familiar with plentiful kinds of muffins there. They truly have anything over in Wonderland.

[ Much more so than in London to begin with. ]

Especially since they had never-ending tea parties there. So there just was tea and accompanying snacks at any hour of the day, because time was eternally stuck at tea time for some people there. [ She says it so casually too, like this is just.. normal..

On the other hand, she's explaining it to a god of death of all things, which isn't exactly the most normal people to converse with either, so maybe it makes relative sense that she'd be so calm about it. You just accept Wonderland logic after a while, and that in turn makes everything here on the train much less strange too. ]

Finally found a way to not make this an emo tag

[controlsthedie]

[ Something like that could never happen back in his world. Not unless the mortals have the right gods on their side at the right time. ]

How did they find time for anything else? Someone must have been constantly cooking and brewing tea at all hours.

[ Thanatos pauses, an odd thought lodging itself in his head. ]

... I sympathize with that person.

[ Mort scampers off to get a small cookie to place on Thanatos's plate. He eyes Alice. Make Thanatos keep trying things! ]

[irrationally]

I think it just appeared out of nowhere.

[ After all, it's not like Alice has seen a whole lot of cooks in Wonderland. Just one, and-- well, that one really didn't seem to be cooking much at all, really. More like they were just throwing pepper all around.. ]

And I do mean that in a literal sense. [ She adds, gently nudging the cookie Mort put on Thanatos' plate closer towards the other. ] Nothing quite made sense in Wonderland, after all, so that meant absolutely anything was possible in that place.

[ Even feasts appearing out of thin air.

Sorry to break your sense of the logical world like this, Thanatos. ]

[controlsthedie]

[ It sounds like what a god could do, but he's never gotten the sense that the denizens of Wonderland were gods. Perhaps they were god favored? By... some tea and sweets loving god? ... Perhaps?

Thanatos's brows knit together as he tries to make sense of it all. It's clear that he's failing too. Mort seems to smirk at Alice helping him out and goes to look for another yummy snack to introduce to Thanatos. ]

I think I would find myself incredibly frustrated in that world.

[ He likes things to make some amount of sense. He looks down at his plate.... He was certain he was about to have an empty plate. ]