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You didn't have to be a master of observation to see that something was going on. Darius was looking decidedly smug, apparently on Edward's expense, who in turn seemed to glare at the siblings for some reason Elysium had yet to catch. Dirty feet stepped lightly into the room, tipping up slightly as he reached the food, even though the man was tall enough to see the table perfectly.

"It seems I have missed some information, of some sort," he said absently, directed at Edward. He was one of the few Wonderland psychopaths that had more system to the madness. Lyra and Crys were frighteningly unpredictable, while Edward had a curious obsession that had always fascinated him. Though Elysium spent little time among his fellow Dark Alices, he felt he knew them quite well. As well as he needed to, anyhow.

"Not to pry, of course," he continued quietly, "but might this have something to do with the rumours I've heard about new arrivals?"

Elysium was not one for teasing, especially not when it came to serious matters such as this. The fact that an Alice escaped Edward's grasp was in his mind a quite unsettling thing.