Alice blinked, momentarily taken aback. Was... was this sassy little child also some manner of aquatic creature? She looked like something that lived at Barrel Bottom. But this wasn't a dream.

Was it?

The last few weeks, what was real and what wasn't was becoming less and less certain.

Still, she recovered splendidly from the initial surprise.

"It is, indeed, a keyboard," she agreed. "But where's the rest of it? I'm no artificer but I'm fairly certain the keys are supposed to be attached to wires in a large body so the sound..."

She gesticulated, as if that could sum up the entire theory of sound in one motion. "...Resonates?"