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[thatoldthatkind]

[ Today is a rather odd dream. Normally one thinks of tea parties and the such when they find the Hatter of Wonderland. Instead there is a room, filled to the brink with unfinished hats and pieces of clocks littered all over the floors. Clocks and hats of every era. Be careful where you step! The fellow in the cowboy hat and tweed long coat doesn't seem to notice you--but he will if you step on anything in the room. Or touch anything. He's laying on his back, cowboy hat on his face, twiddling fingers on his chest and seemingly asleep.

Tread carefully. ]

(( ooc: THEME POST! The Doctor is a twist on The Hatter of Alice In Wonderland. What his story is in this dream, well, you'll just need to ask and see. ;) ]

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[thatoldthatkind]

No idea. Is it? Why would you say that? It sounds completely ridiculous.

[waterfell]

Oh, it's nothing. Just nonsense.

[She's never put much stock in lines and scripts these days, any more than fine-sounding speeches. It's probably better that he dismisses it, too.]

[thatoldthatkind]

You do realize that nonsense is the language we speak around here.

[waterfell]

I'm not fluent in it yet. [She says it flippantly, but with a not ill-meant sense of mischief to the words.]

[thatoldthatkind]

You ought to be. You won't get far here without it.

[waterfell]

Oh? Planning to teach me? [It's an echo of her request from long ago, to learn the language of the Time Lords. It's flippant this time, nonsense at its base, but nonetheless the same drive to learn.]

[thatoldthatkind]

Depends if you want to learn! Do you?

[waterfell]

If it's something I need here, why not? [It could only be to her advantage, though to be honest, she'd never enjoyed nonsense poems as much as more serious ones.]

[thatoldthatkind]

Right then. First! You have to forget everything else you know. Toss it out the window.

[waterfell]

That won't happen. What I know is important to keep.

[thatoldthatkind]

And entirely irrelevant to Wonderland.

[waterfell]

Don't you think even Wonderland has rules?

[thatoldthatkind]

Of course it has rules! Every place has rules!

[waterfell]

Then you can't call it all madness. There's method in it yet. [She quotes deliberately.]

[thatoldthatkind]

Not entirely true. You've never heard of the mad rules, have you?

[waterfell]

Nothing like that. [The tone suggests she doesn't think much of them with that label, either.]

[thatoldthatkind]

They're basically the rules that get you out of trouble with the Queen. Which means they are entirely illogical.

[waterfell]

Won't she sentence you to beheading anyway?

[thatoldthatkind]

Only if she knows. Which she might. But she might like my hats a bit too much to lob off my head.

[waterfell]

She could take the head and keep the hat.

[thatoldthatkind]

Don't' give her any ideas!

[waterfell]

[There's a little toss of her head, and a dismissive sound.]

If she needs me to tell her, I doubt she's capable of doing it.

[thatoldthatkind]

Well, being reminded doesn't hurt.

[waterfell]

Not her, at least, in this case.

[thatoldthatkind]

Yes, well... don't let her know that, eh?