Friday, February 25, 2011

I'm not f***ing Alice!

The white hair wouldn't talk "You're in wonderland, now there is nothing else I could possibly tell you so I demand you let me go immediately!" 
"Oh yeah?  I always wanted a lucky rabbit's foot..."  I let this sink in.
"Please I don't know anything else!"
"How do I leave?"  I swiped my fan behind me a few times.
"He doesn't know how you should leave Alice because he doesn't know how it is you got here nor where you want to be going."  A smiling purple cat's head floated around us, just out of the reach of my fans.  I let the rabbit drop to the ground.  He scrambled to his feet and straitened his waist coat indignantly. 
"I am not Alice, I came through a portal and now I can't seem to make a new one."
"She's an organization member, humph.  We should leave her to the red queen."
"Come Alice and I will take you to the Hatter."
"Don't do that," the rabbit whined "Why should you help her?"
The cat winked at him and I made note to keep my guard up.  This was most likely a trap.

The purple striped cat led me to an eerie patch of woods.  I looked behind me at the colorful fields of flowers; I did NOT want to go in to the woods where the wind did not blow but I had no choice.  He led  me through a tunnel of trees growing close together, their branches creating a canopy so thick one could not even see the sky.  The air was misty: full of Xahssa's element.  I didn't like it.
"No funny business feline: I could decapitate you at any moment."  
"I’d like to see you try," he chuckled.

We finally reached a clearing in the woods.  I could see the grey sky and I breathed it in.  There was a leaning cottage and a long table set for tea in the middle of the woods!  A man with a strange hat and wild red hair dozed at the far end of the table.  A different rabbit, less sane than the other, quivered in a seat and a small mouse nibbled at a cookie.  At the sight of me the mouse ran the length of the table and pointed her tiny toothpick of a sword at me.  The cat was gone.

"You're not Alice."
"No I'm not."  She looked taken aback by this for a moment.
"Well...what are you doin' here then?"  
"Trying to leave but no one will tell me which way to go."
"Oh, we have a guest! Do come and sit!,"  said the wild haired man with an insane smile.
"Hatter, she's not Alice," whined the mouse.
"Pish posh.  Come have tea with us!  We would love for you to join us,"  He smiled and although insane it was a kind smile.  It was the nicest offer anybody had given me since I became a nobody so I sat down...but I didn't have to act like I liked it.

We talked for hours about the craziest things but I could never get them to give me an answer on how to leave.  I hoped that somebody was looking for me by now because I sure wasn't going to be able to get back on my own. 

Then out of nowhere a horn called.  Creatures disappeared into their nests or burrows and everything was eerily quiet.  Clinking armor became the only sound in the entire world and it seemed to fill everything with fear.       
   

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