art in the blood

I wasn't originally planning on posting this as a two-parter, but since it had grown to over two thousand words by the halfway point, I decided to split it in half and post this while I wrangled with Part 2.

Title: Waking World (Part One)
Characters: Alice, Cecily, assorted others.
Summary: "It was then that she began to understand."

( Felt it in my fists, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids )