17-year-old Korey Hightopp sat in her ice blue room of the White Queens' castle making a little hat for Mally, who sat on the desk keeping quiet. In the last 6 months Korey had become really touchy even the smallest thing would set her off, she became more and more on the edge of madness and totaly loseing it, just like her father. Mally looked up into the face of her best friend.
"Kores'? Ye alright?" She asked.
Koreys' eyes were filled to the brim with tears a amber tinge threatning to over run the bright emerald green color of her eyes. Then there was a knock at the door and Koreys' father, Tarrant hightopp, came into the room.
"Korey, Alice needs ye ta 'elp 'er wit some chores." He told his daughter. Then Mally saw it coming. Korey stood from her desk chair, her eyes turning amber, and faced the wall where the shelfs lined it looking at each of her creations then in a mad cry of frustrating ripped them off the shelfs.
"Alice needs ME 'elp?" She whirled on her father, whos' eyes were a brownish-greenish color. "Alice is a sklerking, slervish, merfal-"
"Korey!" Tarrant scolded his daughter for the harsh words towards her step-mother.
Picking Mallyumkun up and sliping her into the pocket of her apron, then,with tears streaming from her eyes, she pushed past her father and ran out of her room. She was running as fast as her athleicly built body would carry her and she ran right into 6-month-pregnant Alice.
"Kores', Wha's wrong?" Alice asked reaching out to steady her step daughter.
Korey just swiped her hand away and pushed past her. Tarrant walked up to Alice.
"Wot was tha' 'bout, Hatter?" She asked him, still calling her husband by his nickname.
"I don' know bu' I plan ta fin' out." He told her.
Tarrant began to follow his daughter she was so much like him that some times it scarred because he didn't want her to have the same life and name for herself that he had made for himself out of his madness. But it also made all the since in the world to him because the same things that he had endurred to bring him to his present state were the same things Korey had endured and more in her young life, losing her mother ,Lacey, at a young age, the desise she had lived with for most of her life, then losing her father when she was 6-years-old.
As Korey ran through the garden, tears still streaming down her snow white cheeks, she ripped off the small little box she keep her hatting tools in and threw them onto the cobble stone path then she grabbed her hat and threw it to the ground to. Then she ran without stoping to the Tulgy Wood. She ended up in Witzend. She then saw her fathers old work shop it seemed to be the one structuer that excaped the attack of the Jabberwocky. This bulding was where most of Koreys good memories were-
"OI! LE' ME OUT!" Came a shrill cry from her pocket that desturbed her thinking.
"Whups! Sorry Mally." Korey apologised quickly.
"So why we bac' 'ere?" Mally asked.
"Daddy wont thank ta look ferme 'ere." Korey said.
BACK AT THE CASTLE
Tarrant walked down all the paths in the garden looking in all of Koreys usaual hiding places. Then he found her hat and case.
"I'm gonna kill 'er." He growled
"No you wont." Said an disembodied head. Tarrant looked at the cat who gave a meaning full glare.
"Fine. I wont. Bu' Tha' still ain't no reason fer 'er ta act this way." Tarrant said with a old fatherly look comeing back to his amber eyes.
"I'll keep an eye on her." Chess said knowing the look the Hatter was giving him he disapeard.