Following that other one... [video]

[runs_on_batteries]

If there are any kids- both big and small- who don't want to be alone right now, I'm making hot chocolate and blanket forts in the dining room.

Also, bring a blanket.

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[runs_on_batteries]

Mad.. Hatter? No, I don't think so. How does the song go?

[There were probably an infinite number of varying children songs out there in the universe. He doubted he'd be able to guess the one she was referring to.

He might be wrong here though. Still, it was best if he could get her good and distracted by teaching him silly songs than worried about why they were here in this room together.]

Yes, the same goes with Peter. His attention span is about that long too.

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[madcuriosity]

Mnn! Yes, I met him while he and the March Hare and Dormouse were having a tea party! And it goes:

Twinkle twinkle little bat
How I wonder where you're at!
Up above the world you fly
Like a teatray in the sky!

I know all sorts of poems and songs, I've many of them memorized. [But no one needed that here, they needed adventurers.]

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[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony clapped and laughed when she was done, clearly having enjoyed the really weird nursing rhyme.]

Bravo, Alice! That was very good. We have a slightly different song to that same tune. Want to hear it?

[Assuming she says yes, he clears his throat and sings. It was a good thing he didn't have a shy bone in his body.]

Twinkle twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
How I wonder what you are.
How I wonder what you are.

[He was just going to ignore the raspberries he normally blew into Morgan's belly after he sang that song to her as an toddler.]

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[madcuriosity]

That was splendid, Mr. Stark! And oh yes! We have that one too back home! But that's the version Mr. Hatter knows.

Did you know that tune is the same as the alphabet song! [Alice is very impressed by her discovery as if it's some grand surprising thing, and she's little so to her it is.]

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[runs_on_batteries]

I.. well.. no, I didn't notice.

[Frankly, he'd never cared enough to notice.]

Wonder why that is? Got any theories?

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[madcuriosity]

Perhaps they were written by the same person who thought it a terribly good tune.

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[runs_on_batteries]

[He nodded, impressed she came up with an idea so fast. He'd really been wrong when he'd initially dismissed her intelligence for being young. That kind of curiosity and creativity would take her far.]

Perhaps, yes.

[He glanced over where some of the other kids were gathering.]

Would you like to go join them and see if we can come up with some new lyrics to go with that tune?

[Anything to continue the art of distraction.]

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[madcuriosity]

[Alice gave a small nod, taking his hand.]

I would like that very much, thank you.