Prologue
Running. Running. Running. A field of green and a flash of white. Gold hair swarming around a porcelain face. A blue dress with white lace flowing as a girl runs. As she runs after a flash of white. The White Rabbit.
The girl keeps running after him. She runs and runs until he has disappeared and her feet are no longer on land. She runs until she is falling. And falling fast. Her screams are lost in the hole she is falling in. The hem of her dress above her head. Her feet kicking wildly for something to land on. Her hands flailing for something to hold onto.
A ceiling. Tiled black and white. This is what her feet land on. A chandelier. Shining silver. This is what her hands hold onto. Her hair hangs from her head towards polished wood. She is upside down and then crashes to the floor. Gravity has righted itself and her journey begins. It begins with a bottle of liquid and a box of cookies and a tiny key meant for a tiny door.
This is how Alice discovered Underland, which she calls Wonderland. And this is the place she has come back to after ten years of loneliness. A world where she is spat at by the flowers, embraced by the creatures, and loved by the Mad Hatter.
And from this love, blossomed anger, hate, and jealousy in one individual…the Hatter's best friend, the March Hare. In all her insanity, she will never compare to the blue-eyed, flawless-faced, sane-minded, adventurous girl, Alice.
A human like the Hatter himself. Unlike the Hare, who is indeed a hare. A filthy creature that is despised by most. Alice will never understand how the Hare feels. How long she has felt this way. And she will never understand why the Hare despises her so much more than any living creature in Underland. Why she feels so much for one man. For one lunatic.