4th Curious Thought [Video]

[madcuriosity]

[It's late morning when Alice comes on, rubbing her eyes and yawning softly. All three of her kittens are purring and cuddling her, quite happy to see that she's, well, awake.

However, Alice has no idea she's been in a month-long coma. All she knows is that when she looked out the window...]

I beg your pardon, but where has all the snow gone? [A small little yawn.] There was so much of it just yesterday! It was several meters and now it seems to be much less! Which wouldn't be so terribly strange but I've never seen snow melt so quickly! Or do you suppose that that's quite common for Asgardian snow?

[Someone... might need to tell her she's been out of it for a month.]

[VIDEO]

[demonicbeauty]

[It's Ariadne posting, so no matter how carefully she's planned her speech, the first few moments of the feed are nothing but her fumbling with her bracelet, trying to properly get herself into the frame.

But there's something very new this time.

It's Ariadne.

Her face is the same as always, except for the fact that it's green. Green as the underside of a maple leaf. And her hair is candy-floss blue. So that's...not normal. And while some of you have seen this look on her, the vast majority have not. She's been careful. Maybe even paranoid.

And from the grimace on her face, she looks very, very guilty.]

So. I've been lying. For a very long time. I don't feel bad about it. Not exactly. But I never felt good about it either.

This...this is me. What I actually am. I'm Alastrian. We're harmless, really. And I would never hurt anyone. Even if I look...well...a little different. And I won't. I mean, it's just easier to look Human. But I wanted to tell the truth. Because I feel like I've been stealing someone's face. Because it looks like we're all going to be here a long time. And because...well. I guess I just wondered what it would be like to live a more honest life.

[She pauses, clearly a little overwhelmed by all of this.]

I'm sorry I lied.