Alice nodded, following Cid. The rather grouchy older man may not be what one would call "eloquent", but he certainly had more of a grasp on the situation than Alice, who heard some of the sounds outside interspersed with those of a hellish train, winding its way through... something. She couldn't remember where she'd heard it before.

"And where shall we go after? The outside isn't exactly safe, either." Wonderland. Her Wonderland was here. She supposed she could bring Cid there, if worst came to worst, but she rather didn't like the idea of sharing her insanity with anyone else. After all, Dr. Bumby had made her do so with him, and all it had accomplished was the former gaining the latter's resentment. But this was different. Cid, for all his faults, had been unexpectedly kind to Alice, and she had grown to rather like him. Perhaps, if she offered...