I was still fingering the new lump on my head as we walked through the psychedelic land when she said this. We hadn't spoken to one another since we had recovered from our fall. I respected the Superior's need to hold her dignified silence while traipsing through this childish realm.
"Well, Wonderland, obviously..." I muttered, quickly ducking from Nexan's furious glare.
The silence restored, but not for long. Mad giggling could be heard faintly. Nexan headed in its direction, and I was forced to follow.
"Hatter!" Nexan called as we approached to table.
The Mad Hatter look up, smiling slightly. Sadness was clouding his funny colored eyes. I eyed the other two at the table, an insane hare and a mouse struck with a fit of giggles. I wondered briefly if I had been like that.
"Hatter, have you seen-" The Mad Hatter cut Nexan off with a wave.
"Yes yes, they both came by here a while ago. But come, come! Let us have some tea!"
"They?" I asked. Nexan looked back at me, the same puzzlement I felt in her own eyes.
The Hatter was straightening odds and ends on the table and fussing over some chipped cups of tea. He was obviously avoiding answering us.
"I'm going to assume the Red Queen has them?" I said boldly.
The three of them fell silent. It was good enough an answer for me.
"Come on then, Superior," I said, turning from the table. "Let's go get them."
"Max..." she said, sounding like she was addressing a child. "We don't know where the Red Queen is."
I shrugged, a grin splicing my drawn features. "Oh I don't think it'll be that hard."
"What do you-" she was cut off my scream.
"DOWN WITH THE BLOODY RED QUEEN!"I yelled, listening as it echoed through the forest.
"Max are you insane!?" Nexan asked, noticing that irony in the question.
I shrugged again. "We do get along better with villains than heroes, right? Some of our best allies are villains."
"We have no allies." She replied bluntly.
I pondered this a moment, then rephrased. "If we did have allies, the best of them would be villains."
Nexan sighed, the sound of clanking metal becoming louder by the second. "Well, you're right there."
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