[Alice gave the "doll" a look. There was no love lost between dolls and Alice: in her last adventure, dolls were her enemies, and the dollmaker himself a perverse, horrid creature with ill intentions and a bleak outlook on how children were bought and sold. Despite this revulsion, Alice knew that this person was NOT the doll she was used to back him. If anything, she even looked like she could be from Alice's own time.
That, at least, was comforting.
"My name is Alice," she finally replied, "and better that way: there has been nothing good about me a long time, and Magi refers to something entirely different in my world. Still, I am happy to meet someone not like these people. As for a name, well, it has been a long time since I have met someone decent enough to borrow their namesake. I think, though, Ada will suit you."
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[Alice gave the "doll" a look. There was no love lost between dolls and Alice: in her last adventure, dolls were her enemies, and the dollmaker himself a perverse, horrid creature with ill intentions and a bleak outlook on how children were bought and sold. Despite this revulsion, Alice knew that this person was NOT the doll she was used to back him. If anything, she even looked like she could be from Alice's own time.
That, at least, was comforting.
"My name is Alice," she finally replied, "and better that way: there has been nothing good about me a long time, and Magi refers to something entirely different in my world. Still, I am happy to meet someone not like these people. As for a name, well, it has been a long time since I have met someone decent enough to borrow their namesake. I think, though, Ada will suit you."