[ Lion's a hard one to read. Alex is...well, he's an observant guy, out of necessity, but Lion's so proper, it's hard sometimes to tell, unless they literally get drunk and start talking about dying.

But... Well, he's going to go out on a whim. ]

...I'm not blaming you. Just so it's clear. Sometimes it... You can't predict what's going to happen, when everything gets crazy.

[ He knows that from experience, after all. ...Ah, there's some gloves, ugly and brown.

And, with almost a bitter levity: ] I mean... I'd be a pretty big hypocrite, if I started throwing accusations.

[ Ahh, there it is. All that lovely self-loathing he's been burying under the Wonderland exuberance, just bubbling back up, in little waves. It's almost like coming home. ]