Alice was not particularly optimistic on that front.

"For now, I suppose," she said. "It always starts like that - things seem normal at first glance, but then you realize when someone or something's been playing with your mind, then they can just twist your perspective all up to make it seem so, when really, everything has gone to hell in a teapot."

She may have been a mite paranoid on that front. But she knew what it was like to have your own thoughts turned against you.

"Just a little ways back," she said. "There's a bit of paper caught behind, I just want to pull it out without tearing it."