4th Abnormality - Dictated

[teratologist]

[there is a soft clearing of her throat and a pause, one could almost hear her wringing her hands]

I need to offer an overdue apology to you all, at least a good number of you. In my return I seem to have lost my head and nearly did the same to others.

For any offense I may have given in my time as the Queen of Hearts, I apologize most humbly and can only hope you can forgive me.

If you cannot, I can accept that as a consequence of my actions as well.

I am so terribly sorry.

[It's heartfelt, even a little choked with emotion, as much as a Victorian lady can allow.]

Comments

Mrs. Aplogetic ex-Queen

[originalcopy]

Listen lady, don't beat yourself up over it. It wasn't that big a deal.

[As far as dealing with kill crazy psychos goes, he'd take the Queen of Hearts over O'Malley any day.]

Mr bad flamingo swinger

[teratologist]

I do feel responsible though, it is perhaps irrational but..well that is what it is.

Mrs. Animal Cruelty

[originalcopy]

Well, it's not your fault the place fucked with your head.

And if you didn't actually chop any heads, then at least you were better than the actual Queen.

How are those argyle socks treating your armor?

[teratologist]

No, others have made that point as well, but I am relieved to know the damage cause was at least minimal.

The actual Queen was a brute, I am sad to say I used to read those stories to my daughter when she was young.

Much better after the Jabberwocky chewed them off thanks!

[originalcopy]

So there you go... no harm no foul.

Although, there may have been harm to fowl.

[He just couldn't resist the joke.]

ohh dirty pool!

[teratologist]

[She groaned, literally groaned at that.]

And I thought the humility would be the worst pain of all this.

Ha!

[originalcopy]

Oh come on, it wasn't that bad.

...ok, it was pretty bad.

[teratologist]

Yes, but the fact that we're both alive and well enough to bemoan it means we can let it slide, I think.

[originalcopy]

[wry chuckle]
How very magnanimous of you.

[teratologist]

No, very Magnus of me.

[Bad jokes are a two way street.]

[originalcopy]

[ok, his turn to groan]

ugh... really.

[teratologist]

Your turn to cry foul?

[originalcopy]

I thought taking turns was only polite.

[teratologist]

And we do live in a polite society.

[originalcopy]

[laughs, if only she knew.]

Maybe you do. Polite doesn't get you very far where I'm from.

[teratologist]

Oh? And where is that, exactly?

[originalcopy]

Just some shit-hole planet I was stationed at.

[teratologist]

You were stationed on another planet?

[originalcopy]

Yeah... the time and place I'm from, humanity has spread itself out pretty far into space.

[teratologist]

That extraordinary, have you encountered other life? Non terrestrial in origin?

[originalcopy]

Yeah... it... it didn't go well.

[teratologist]

What happened?

[originalcopy]

Well, you know how it goes... Something about our existence just pissed them off and they started killing us.

Officially the war is over now, but things are still pretty tense.

[teratologist]

So you did learn to live in coexistance. Well that is encouraging at least.

[originalcopy]

uh... sure, right.

[He wasn't really up to explaining how both the aliens and humans were only playing nice because they were more worried about civil wars. And that the "peace" was only two years in. Let her be optimistic for the future.]