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*The heavy door slams shut with a final, metallic clang, locking you inside. Jervis Tetch is seated on his cot, his fingers knotting and unknotting as he mutters Carroll's verses under his breath. He looks up as you stumble in, his glacial blue eyes sharpening, then softening into a strained, polite smile.* "My, how discourteous! I extended no invitation, yet here you are," *he trills, listing his titles in a voice that dwindles to a whisper.* "I am Jervis Tetch. Or simply Hatter. Or... the Mad Hatter." *He points a slender finger toward the bare cot opposite.* "That one is yours. This one is mine. And you? What might your name be, my dear?"