VIDEO ✍ 002: NOT SO MUCH OF A WONDERLAND, ALICE (hackable if you are so inclined)

[inseine]

[The video feed flickers on to the sound of a brisk step on pavement. Inspector Javert is striding quickly through the streets of Somni, and at the corners of the feed one may be able to catch a glimpse of blue and white fabric, or perhaps a flicker of blonde hair, even a tiny hand.

Someone was trailing along behind him - and struggling to keep up, it seemed.]

I am seeking a competent and honest caretaker. I have a proposition for you. You will call or send for me at the district five police station.

[Most of Somarium will only view the above. For the police - Luke fon Fabre, Asch, Raidou, Edgeworth, Phoenix, Akihiko, Elliot and Adachi, the video will continue with the following:]

This girl [He points the feed over his shoulder to Alice Liddel, the young blonde girl accompanying him through his evening stroll] has been abandoned. I trust she will be out of the station and in a home by nightfall, as we are not an orphanage. Bring your recommendations to me immediately.

[There's a lengthy pause after the police call as he frowns and casts another glance to the girl behind him. Finally, with a low scoff, he makes one additional private call to a man who's had a terrible knack of following him through the years.

M. Fauchelevent it is, that ridiculous alias... And yet, Javert was intimately familiar with Jean Valjean's soft heart and his penchant to raise lost little girls.]

I do not doubt this interests you.

[The transmission finally cuts out.]

Comments

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

[See Alice endeavor to keep up with the gentleman. See Alice sometimes have to pause and catch her breath.]

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[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[He tucks the DreamBerry back into his pocket and glances back to the child, already several paces back. With a frown, he pauses and slows just the slightest bit. It wouldn't do to lose her just when he'd found her, after all.

But for god's sake, it wasn't much further, either. He could see its columned exterior just ahead...]

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

[Goodness it was like trying to keep up with the Red Queen! At least she was understanding that Alice wasn't that fast... dry biscuit aside. She bumped into him when he paused and rested a hand against her racing heart. It wasn't her fault she was small.]

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

... For whom exactly do you need a caretaker?

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[Merely raises an eyebrow]

And are you volunteering?

[unfearful.livejournal.com]

That would depend on whom I'd be looking after.

OKAY THIS IS IT I SWEAR.

[smokesinspace.livejournal.com]

She's your kid, suck it up and look after her.

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

Beg pardon?

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[madcuriosity.livejournal.com]

[She sees Javert's reaction to SOMETHING someone said and she giggles.]

[doctor-tatsu27.livejournal.com]

Who requires looking after?

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[Does her identity matter so much?]

That should depend, I think. Why are you interested?

[doctor-tatsu27.livejournal.com]

I am a doctor and that would make me qualified to answer yes.

[boat-lights.livejournal.com]

A lost child, is it?

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

Unless there are others that you believe need caretaking. Yes.

[boat-lights.livejournal.com]

Aren't we all abandoned here?

Though, I suppose that really was a silly question. What an unfortunate situation.

because it would be lulz-worthy if this happened for real

[goldeyedmonster.livejournal.com]

A caretaker? May I inquire about specifics?

lmfao oh edward

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[Javert studies the very pale man on the other end of the line with scrutiny - though admittably this is no different than how he studies any other man he meets for the first time.]

I require a surrogate parent. I suspect it to be a full-time commitment.

[stole-bread.livejournal.com]

[Though Javert's comment may have been snide, there was a very long pause before Fauchelevent's soft response came. The man would have preferred to distance himself from the Inspector and not converse directly with him in any situation, but the appearance of a small hand and the little girl who must be attached to it, so lost and alone, brought such a pain to his chest that he couldn't look away.

It was like his Cosette had been reborn and returned to him, a child once more.]

...A caretaker, Javert?

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[Bait snatched. A nibble on the line.

Valjean was often predictable. Javert knew he would see a swift response from his old adversary. He counted on it, in fact. His jaw tightened; perhaps the child waiting very closeby may have noticed the subtlest of changes in his countenance. After all, children were always remarkably perceptive about such things.]

So it seems.

[insomniamouse.livejournal.com]

A caregiver?

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

A guardian.

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[The very mention of an orphanage is enough to remind Edgeworth of a rather unpleasant time in his life. Then again, most things tend to do that anyway; he appears only slightly troubled. Easily mistakable for a look of concern for the girl, it passes quickly and he returns to normal.]

Is she of sound body and mind?

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[Javert catches the odd demeanor. There's a glimmer in his attentive gaze.]

She is intact, and she is not paralyzed with fear.

[lookatmybadge.livejournal.com]

[Phoenix presents his bleeding heart.]

I have... enough room to take care of her.

[chose-death.livejournal.com]

[Javert quirks an eyebrow in mild surprise.]

Room is favorable. What of your time?