Welcome reader~ this is my new story that I have been writing for the past few weeks. If you are reading this then that means you enjoyed the prologue and want to read more and that makes me happy. Now please, enjoy~
Alice awoke when the sun rose just like any ordinary day. She began her normal routine for the morning which included taking a shower, changing into her dress, brushing her teeth, combing her hair- just the normal everyday things that everybody does. The dream, or nightmare as some may put it, was only a distant memory in Alice's mind. She actually only brushed it off as a nightmare, that it wasn't real. That this "Jabberwock" guy was only a figment of her imagination. She decided that she would speak to Nightmare about it. Perhaps he could tell her what it could possibly mean.
Before she could do anything, though, she would need to take care of Julius. She went to the kitchen to fix the man his morning coffee and some breakfast. Without his daily coffee the man would probably not function at all. The blue haired clockmaker didn't sleep and often didn't eat unless Alice was there to take care of him. It was quite sad actually how she would come in to his office in the morning and find the man with his head on his desk, sound asleep and surrounded by broken clocks.
She was getting better at making the coffee, or so she thought. Julius would always grade her coffee and recently she had been getting better scores. With his mug of coffee in one hand and a plate of eggs and bacon in the other she set off to the tower master's office. Everything within the office seemed normal except for the person behind the desk.
"G-Gowland?! What are you doing here?!" Alice yelled out, nearly dropping what was in her hands. The older gentleman looked up at her and smiled slightly. His attire had changed to a white dress shirt with a light yellow vest and black dress pants. Two clocks hung from his hips and a wrist watch could be found on his arm.
"Oh, Alice. How nice to see you. I was just fixing these clocks." He said, happily. He looked back down at the open clock before him and pushed his glasses up farther on his nose. He looked up at a book that was open on the desk.
"W-where is Julius? He wouldn't trust anybody enough to touch the clocks…." She trialed off thinking of how she once offered to work on the clocks for Julius while he slept. She had read several of the books in the tower and knew a thing or two about clocks and if she really ran into trouble she would only need to wake him and ask. Julius, on the other hand, thought it was a horrendous idea.
"Julius? Well… He must be at the amusement park right now. Someone must have messed with the board and-…" He paused for a moment. "Erm, it's not important." He blurted out. "I'm sure things will be righted soon. But until then I need to…" He looked back at the clock as a spring sprung out of it. "Whoops…" He muttered, looking at the book again.
Alice was suddenly reminded of her dream and how the man said things would change. She weighed her options and decided it would be best to go see Nightmare now before going to check on Julius at the amusement park. Alice chuckled to herself at the thought of Julius working at the park.
"Can I have that?" Gowland asked, pointing to the slowly growing cold coffee and breakfast. Alice shrugged before placing them before him.
"Sure, why not?" The man graciously took the coffee and took a sip. A smile danced on his lips.
"Your coffee is quite good." He said, taking another sip.
"Julius is very picky with his coffee…" She sighed. "I have to work really hard to make coffee that he likes."
"I think it's absolutely wonderful." He chuckled, pulling the plate of food toward him. If Gowland was now the temporary clockmaker, he doesn't need her.
"I should probably be going…." Alice muttered, "I need to ask Nightmare something." Gowland didn't reply. He only sipped at is coffee and looked at the book once more.
The door to the clover tower wasn't that far away. Because it was still April season she could travel between the land of Hearts and Clover via the clock tower. Alice quickly went to the clover tower in search of Nightmare but it seemed the workers were more… They were all rushing about trying to get their work done. Made Alice wonder if something was wrong….
"Excuse me," Alice interrupted one of the busy maids. "Where is Nightmare?"
"Nightmare? I wouldn't know. He has been missing since last night. Perhaps you should speak to Lord Elliot." The maid said before rushing away.
"Lord Elliot?" the blond muttered, utterly confused.
"What the f*ck is this one?!" someone roared. Alice quickly found her way into what used to be Nightmare's office. Unfortunately it was Elliot who was in the office, no Nightmare in sight. The blond man was waving around papers, angrily.
"E-Elliot?!"
"Oh Alice! Thank god you are here! I don't understand what is happening!" Elliot nearly cried. One of his eyes was covered by an eye patch. His usual purple scarf was now green and hid a white dress shirt that was thrown on sloppily. A black vest was thrown over it with matching black pants and dress shoes with green stripes. "People just keep bringing me papers and telling me to sign them."
"You expect me to know? I only came here to find Nightmare in case he knew what was going on… and why are you wearing an eye patch?" Before Elliot could answer the doors to the office burst open revealing Vivaldi.
"Lord Elliot," She forced herself to say. "I have more papers for you."
"More papers?! What the heck is going on?!" Elliot yelled.
"Vivaldi? What are you doing here?!"
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