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HPOV

I watched as the White Queen walked over to her throne, and sat down. She took the end of her arm rest and pulled it up to show something black protruding sticking up from it. She pushed it with her finger and suddenly a giant hole appeared in the floor. We all started at it in wonder.

"May I come to dinner, too?" asked Lily

"No, sorry. But I'll send you an ice-cream sundae to your room, okay" Gwen picked Lily up and gave her a hug

"Okay. But don't forget to eat your vegetables" Lily told the queen.

"Of course" she said

Gwen let Lily down, and the little girl skipped around the hole and out of the court room.

"Might I ask why there is a hole in your court room?" asked McTwisp

"Well, this is the quickest way to anywhere in the castle. Unless we take this way, we'll be late. And I hate being late. My mom always loathed being late, and a little bit of it rubbed off on me" she sighed.

"Well, what do we do?" I asked

"You jump in. Don't worry, I'll go first" she said

She walked over and right into the hole. We watched as she dropped without so much as a scream. The Tweetles looked at each other and shrugged. They dropped into the hole. Next went Mally and Chessur, followed my Nivens. Thackery just looked at it then said 'hole' then jumped in. I held my arm out to my queen and we descended together. It was the most strange feeling. I felt like I was being pulled and pressed. Then I felt as if I was being dropped from the sky. I finally felt something underneath me and blinked my eyes clear to see I was seated on the second right of the Black Queen. Next to me was Thackery and an empty seat. The empty seat was right next to the queen.

"Who's seat is this?" I asked

"That seat is for my Prime Minister" she said

"Where is she?" I asked

"I am right here" said a voice from behind me.

I looked back and felt my eyes widen. I looked at a girl about twenty with blond hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a simple black dress, but you could see three or four claw marks on her right arm. I was looking at…

"I am the Green Prime Minister of the Black Queen, or, as you know me, Alice"

She was smiling and looking at all of us. Suddenly we all broke out into cheers. The White Queen, who was sitting at the opposite end of the table from the Black Queen, got up and hugged Alice. She was given a round of hugs, then she got to me. When I grabbed her, I hugged her with all my might, and a little of my madness. I only stopped when she said,

"Hatter…can't…breath"

I let go quickly, but we both were smiling madly at each other.

"What are you doing here?"

"I live here. That's my question to you"

"Well, I lived in Underland first, so you explain" I said

We laughed and hugged again.

"If you want to know what has happened lately, sit down and talk. Why do you think I set the Hatter next to you Alice?" Said the Black Queen

We sat down and launched into conversation. We were just talking with everyone in general.

"So why didn't you tell me that the cat was here?" asked the queen

"We didn't know" said the White Queen

"Yes, I knew I wouldn't be invited with the Hatter having a say, but I thought that was unfair to you, so I followed"

"Why wouldn't the Hatter want you here?" the Black Queen asked

"Because he's a" I reverted to Underlandish going into my madness.

"Hatter" said Alice

I blinked and said

"I'm fine"

The Black Queen looked amused.

"Crumpet" said Thackery, before throwing one straight at the Black Queen's head.

She caught it with one hand and took a bite.

"Thank you. I was just about to ask for one" Gwen said

We all looked at her in amazement, well everyone but Alice.

Miranda turned to Alice and asked,

"So how did you become acquainted to the Black Queen?"

"Well…" she seemed to go to a different place for a second.

"I met Alice when she was in China. See, she was… in a bit of trouble, and I helped to get her out. Well, me and one of my knights. We brought her back to her temporary home and made a deal with her boss and then she came and lived with me. She did wonderful with my way of living and everyone loved her. I thought, since she was so great with people, make her Prime Minister"

I was looking at everyone at the table. They seemed to be fine with the story. From the corner of my eye, I thought that I saw Alice mouth 'thank you'. Huh, must be my madness.

By the end of dinner, everyone was in high spirits. We walked back to the throne room just in time for sunset.

"Oh, it's almost time" said the Black Queen.

"Great" said Alice

They both seemed excited about something.

"Everyone, come with me" said Gwen.

We all followed to the front and waited till the sunset was at the horizon line.

"What are we doing?" asked Miranda

"Wait for it" said Alice

We watched as the sun started to set and then there was a faint light appearing. As the sun went down, the light became more prominent and soon everything was glowing; the castle, the gardens, the Black Queen and Alice. After a minute the sun was fully down and then something wonderful happened.