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Good evening, Voidtreckers. I'd like to announce a council meeting in three days. It's overdue and I believe we have a number of items to discuss.

Please council members take some time over the next few days to come up with and notify me of topics we need to discuss so I can prepare an agenda. If anyone who is not a council member feels strongly about a certain topic we should consider, either tell me or seek out a council member so they may relay the information.

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It means to keep something secret and I really don't think we should in this case.

Why would you wish to keep any of your meeting secret? [Alice cannot, at the moment, really fathom what good keeping any information they talk about a secret. Unless it were a surprise party, perhaps, then that would need to be kept secret by virtue of it's nature. But otherwise?] What good does being secretive do you?

I don't know.

[There is a heavy, tired sigh. She hates politics. She'd quit the council, but she was voted in and she refuses to run away because she wants it to not be her problem. That's not what an adult is.] Supposedly to keep those new to such roles protected, but there's was offing that while still having it open after a fashion.

If you ask me, it's a power thing.

... Exactly what roles are being protected? [They still have to get on the train, if anything should be figured out, it should be how to stop that.]

A power thing? [Alice, being seven, has little to no power at all, being a female child of the Victorian era, even less so.] We were all forced onto the train, what power could there possibly be? [WHY ARE ADULTS SO WEIRD?!]

Leadership roles.

[Eva offers a tired smile.]

Popularity? Ego? A wy to dictate how things are run amongst ourselves. I don't know.

But... it can't be popularity. Everyone has been very unkind to Mr. Stark. So it's certainly not that. [Alice feels rather terrible her two questions caused... all this.]

People can be unkind about something but still generally like or respect a person. I don't always see eye to eye with him, yet he does have my respect as a person.

.... [That... THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE?! Alice can only blink a bit owlishly before her brows knit together in thought.] Then... why... be unkind?

That's just how people are. We try to be kind to everyone, but it doesn't always work that way. More so when tempers flare or people start to argue.

But, I think, if you do your best to be kind and respectful and listen to people, then things end up a lot smoother in the long run.

[Alice thinks that's a terrible excuse but doesn't argue with it. She wouldn't even know how to defend against such a comment.

At least the second statement is something that actually does make sense.]

Are you all doing your best then? [She doesn't mean for the question to sound tactless, to her, it doesn't sound that way, she simply wishes to know.]

I'd like to think we are, yes. I know I am.

[Despite the ugly, ugly cultural prejudices at the back of her mind these days when it comes to Tony, but that's not something to get into, if ever.]

Well, then... I shall try my best too, miss. I'm sorry to have caused so much trouble.

You didn't cause trouble and anyone who says you did is wrong.

Anyway, my name's Eva. [Though Alice likely already knows that. Still.] It's nice to meet you.

How do you do, Miss Eva, my name is Alice Liddell, the little Alice, since the older me is here as well.

[She could ask, but- Eva decides not to, right now.]

Just Eva's fine, Alice-chan. Unless it's a polite form of address where you're from.

Alice-chan? I've not heard such a thing. But Miss is a polite way to address you, this is true.

Like 'miss', it's a polite way to address you and, for me, not doing so would be incredibly forward and rude.

Oh! Well, I certainly wish for you to be rude or forward! I completely understand! Should I call you that, then? The -san, I mean.

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