Because I was beyond pissed at the end of Alice Through the Looking Glass. Tim Burton, I coming after you, preferably with a Harley Quinn-esque type hammer.
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Her blue eyes gaze out through the porthole, absentmindedly admiring the endless abyss that during the day painted the world in shades of blue and gray. She closed her eyes in order to consciously feel the rocking embrace of the waves—a feeling that had once amazed her, but now felt as nothing but a comforting, familiar sway. Opening her eyes, she once again took to staring mindlessly at the paperwork illuminated by lamplight on her desk.
Only two days into their newest venture to China, and Alice already began drowning in paperwork and legalities. The farther the ship journeyed from the mainland, the more time could be spent on deck; but for now, midnight paperwork and nighttime daydreaming would consume her time.
Leaning back in order to reorganize and refocus, her eyes fell on a gleaming sliver vanity mirror on the corner of her desk, and then allows her fingers to dance over the intricate designs lightly. It amazes her how only a few weeks ago she had passed through a looking glass to her beloved Underworld. At the thought of the kingdom, her heart aches, but the inspiration that always accompanies one of her visits overpowers it, and she pushes that ache away.
Slowly, she picks up the small, silver-inlaid handheld looking glass—a keepsake from her last trip to the emperor's court, before her latest trip to Underland—and holds it up to admire her new, shortened curls in all their unsocietal glory. Instead of the yellow bob she is assuredly coming to love, gravity-defying orange hair and eyes brighter than any royal's gems fill the glass. Her own eyes widen and her jaw drops, despite the fact that her brain accepts the appearance of the visage before her as quite reasonably, considering that just a few weeks ago she was traveling through mirrors herself.
The face looking back at her broke into a quite maddened grin that caused her heart to race violently.
"Hello Alice."