Bab 687: Words and Actions

Words were weapons to Alice. Riddles and games, twisting and turning off the tongue to trick and trap her target. She didn’t trust them. They were too easy to say, much harder to do.

Actions were the language that Alice understood.

Expressing herself through words was difficult.

Often, she found herself misdirecting and playing games with her words purely out of habit and instinct. Words were meant to be false. They were meant to cause chaos and confusion. That was one of her earliest and most ingrained lessons from Holden.

It was difficult to lie with your body. To keep secrets or hide what you felt. The body was honest if you knew how to listen to it.

Throughout her time as the doll, Alice had been forced to do many things to herself and to others. Her words were perfect, designed and decorated to fit whatever tale she was spinning.