The excitement of the new city and new experience is never a thing one gets used to easily, it takes time and strength to fully inhabit to the surrounding. Alice wasn't new of moving into a new town, that wasn't her first time because ever since her parents broke up she has been trading Chicago for Louisiana, for Texas and until her father settled in Warlington.
Then she went to University of Toronto, and although she really wanted to get that degree somehow things seemed to not go according to her plans, she didn't get the degree nor did she finish. Everytime she caught a glimpse of reality, she would immediately tell herself "I wasn't meant for it" and be done with it. But what was really Alice meant for? What was her purpose for existing in this world? Lunara created her to resemble the ancient princess of Athens, as she did to all of her creations who were supposed to break Nazar's curse and die alongside with him.