forum We're All a Little Mad // OxO // Closed

Started November 01, 2019 by @ElderGod-Icefire

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Aliana shrugged a little, "That's what I've heard. You were mad, but a good riddle teller."

Hatta shrugged again. "Riddles are a good way to spin madness into words, dear." he replied, tipping his hat to her. "Everyone thinks of a different answer."

"That's also what makes them fun no?" Aliana responded having to push her hat up once more, "You know the answer you want, but you get to here what everyone else thinks the answer is."

Hatta shrugged. "I suppose you have a point…but there Are impossible riddles, you know. Riddles without an answer! And in those riddles lies true madness."

Aliana shuddered at the thought of a puzzle without an answer. She liked everything to have a beginning and an end and the idea that something might not have that always freaked her out, "Can we switch the topic, please?"

Hatta grinned again, that strange, manic grin. "Why? Am I making you uncomfortable?" he asked, purple eyes glittering.

"Possibly," Alaina adjusted the straps on her bag once more. She really did look uncomfortable and almost out of place.

Hatta shrugged. "Okay." he replied, whistling again as he walked, his long legs covering the ground in quick, easy strides.

Aliana was a little relieved he dropped it and then had to almost run to keep up with him. Curse her smaller body. She had thought for sure he would have kept going considering that sounded like a thing that someone who was mad would do.

Hatta was grinning again. "So. Where do we need to go to first?" he asked with a laugh.

"I don't know," Aliana responded a little out of breath, "You're the one leading us!"

Hatta grinned. "So I am! So where Are we going first?" he cocked his head.

Aliana paused for a moment, "TO get supplies? That's what you said and then some well. How do you not know where we're going?"

"Ah, that's right!" Hatta grinned, and took a sharp left turn.

Aliana stumbled for a moment before following after him. She was going to need all the patience she could get to deal with this mad hatter.

Hatta grinned again as they walked, humming again and wagging his head from side to side.

Aliana let them walk in silence for a bit, well him walk her kind of run, before she asked, "Why do you live alone in the woods?"

Hatta glanced at her. "Oh! Because they don't like having madmen in town." he replied with a grin. "It tends to….spoil things."

"I can understand that," Aliana responded slowly, "But you didn't try to fight against them or anything? Just accepted your life in the woods?"

Hatta shrugged. "Dear, I'm going mad." he replied with a smirk. "Of course I accept it."

"You're going mad?" Aliana looked at him each word coming out slowly Her eyes grew a little wide, "I thought you were mad."

"Going mad, actually mad, it's the same thing." Hatta shrugged one shoulder elegantly. "In the end, the result is the same."

"But the stage is different," Aliana pointed out, "The end is the same, but you are still by all definitions slightly sane."

Hatta cocked his head. "It depends on your definition." he replied with a shrug. "I am going insane, and nothing will change that."

"At least your well aware," Aliana commented. She would hate to just start losing her mind and not even know, "I'm sorry I keep asking questions."