Alice in wonderland
Alive…was she alive? She tried to move her hands…her arms and raise her head. The light exploded behind her eyelids, causing her to wince….but she could move. She could move everything, it was all functional. But I cant remember anything, I have no idea where I am, where is my mother…it's too quiet, I cant hear anything? Everything was rushing round her head at the same time, nothing is making any sense….where am I?
She blinked….and finally started to take notice of her surroundings. There was a noise, like an old tv slowly being turned on..the noise of static becoming more and more recognizable as that of the battle that raged below her. "The fight that she was supposed to be the champion of"… what a strange thought to be having…she was Alice Kingsley, daughter of Charles Kingsley, nearly betrothed and completely unconventional but certainly not a champion. Some champion she'd be anyway, she didn't have a sword and judging by the vague sound of wings behind her well it didn't sit well with her…wait …flapping…wings…THE JABBAWOKIE! Everything flooded back….the white queen, the fraptious day, the battle for wonderland. Everyone was down there, fighting for her, waiting for her to claim her destiny…to make the impossible possible…and she, well had to believe in the impossible for it to happen…not difficult. The roar of the Jabberwokie broke through her thoughts, bringing her with more than a bump to the present day. She looked straight ahead and saw the sword, her sword, lying there on the ground. She had to get to it, for all of them, Ches, Mallyumpkin….Hatter. She had to kill the Jabberwokie.
The world went into slow motion as she reached out her hand, and felt to cold steel of the hilt. She found herself turning to face the jaberwokie, with a fresh determination and the face of the hatter clearly in her mind. She would do it…it was time to end this.
Well, that was the theory, it seemed so easy on paper, in her mind…but as Alice turned to face the jaberwokie, a cold and calculating voice entered her head:
"This is no place for a lady, one who has no belief in herself, one who has no possible way of defeating the horror of societies expectations…let alone the horror of a jaberwokie. "
Alice shook her head and blinked…the battle continued without her, no one else had heard the voice, was she going mad…well the situation here was hardly normal..but was she going mad in her dreams as well? Was that even possible…the train of thought was interrupted again:
"Yes, it is all dream, madness comes to all of us, but this is a dream, when you wake up, all the madness will be gone. All you have to do is trust me…"
This made perfect sense….she had been having these dreams all her life, this was nothing different. She would wake up soon, everything would make sense….she would marry Hamish…everything would be ok. The sound of the sword hitting the ground was heard above the battle that raged below….all eyes turned to Alice as she knelt before the Jaberwokie's slowly opening jaws…..