Don't Tell Alice Part 1, Chapter 2: The Bluebird and the Saguaro

Alice Isn't Dead

Night Vale Presents

Fiction, Drama

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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0:25.4	Miles down the road now.
0:27.7	Although which road, well, that's a little bit of a mystery.
0:32.7	My phone doesn't know where I am, which is both a relief and a terror.
0:44.3	I have to go by landmarks, like I'm in the old times, when the earth and the air was all we had, when we hadn't transcended being part of the world, when consequences still existed.
0:51.3	It's kind of exhilarating. Hope I don't die.
0:57.0	... I'm I'm Alice isn't dead.
1:36.1	Don't Tell Alice by Joseph Fink.
1:39.9	Performed by Jaseka Nicole,
1:42.9	Music and sound design by Dysperition.
1:46.2	Part 1, Chapter 2, The Bluebird and the Sawaro.
1:53.4	There I was, deep in the desert, in a place that only shows up on maps as unlabeled beige.
2:04.6	And then I was driving in a pine forest, next to a river that winked at me in the sunlight.
2:07.6	The air felt different.
2:10.6	That was the first thing that struck me.
2:12.6	Because the landscape passing flatly by the windshield
2:16.6	was like watching something on TV.
2:19.3	But the air was tangible and undeniable.
2:23.3	I wouldn't hallucinate a change in air pressure or humidity.
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