Those two round eyes peered at me fiercely, without thinking I realised I'd started poking Savannah awake from her sleep.

"What are you doing, I need more sleep..." she huffed, and looked past me to the strange man "Oh!"

"You knew our mother?" my voice came out quietly.

"Alice, Alice, she lost her muchness but found it again, where is Alice?" his voice had a slight lisp.

"She is dead" Savannah croaked emotionally "Why are you looking for her?"

"Alice is dead" he looked shocked "Alice..." he started murmuring inaudible words, his eyes turned red scaring Savannah.

"Snap out of it!" I shouted up at him.

His eyes turned green again, he pouted and his voice was drawn "Thankyou"

I stood up, Savannah quickly followed me nervously, we walked out from under the leaf, the man jumped up and moved backwards. Savannah and I both finally realised how small we actually were, in length I only came up to just under the man's knee.

"Who are you?" Savannah asked politely.

"I am the Hatter, I need Alice" he said with a sweep of his top hat.

"We told you, she died" Savannah sighed impatiently.

The Hatter's face became confused then sad, my heart reached out to him, "She cannot be dead; Alice is here we will find Alice!"

I tugged at his pants to grab his attention, he looked down at me "Our mother is not here, she is dead, but could we help you?"

The Hatter knelt down, his long bright orange eyebrows were raised "Who are you? Do you have muchness?"

"I'm Cheyenne, this is my sister Savannah" I grinned "What is muchness?"

He tapped my chest where my heart was "That is muchness"

"Heart?" Savannah asked confused "Why didn't you just say heart?"

I shushed her "Hatter, what has happened here, does the White Queen not rule anymore?"

The Hatter's face became serious, a small tinge of red sparkled in his green eyes.

"The Red Queen has been making an army of creatures that were banished, Alice was supposed to come and save us"

For some reason I felt brave "Our mother is not here, and will not be coming, we are the only ones here, so make do with the best you have!"

The Hatter was about to reply when there was a galloping noise off in the distance "Quick drink this!" he shoved a small vile at my mouth I took a sip and passed it to Savannah, we instantly shrunk to a much smaller size, our dresses hung past our feet. The Hatter picked Savannah up first and strangely enough sat her on his head, then he gently did the same with me, his top hat came over the top of us and everything turned dark.

Savannah and I became silent; she gripped onto the sides of the hat while I held onto his slightly curly red hair as he began to walk. The sound of galloping came closer, I listened as it seemed to pause and then continue past us, and I counted the minutes until the hat was lifted off.

Savannah squealed "Who was that?"

The Hatter reached up and picked us up in each hand and put us down on the ground.

"More like what" his face became cheeky "You will trip over your clothes"

I looked down and laughed "Yes we will." I then started ripping at me dress so it was once again up to my knees; Savannah did the same with a small struggle.

The Hatter's eyes were watching us widely, his grin was back again and the slight gap between his two front teeth was noticeable. His top hat was once again back on his head, I noticed it was old and burnt on some parts, a reason for this tickled at the back of my mind, but I couldn't remember.

"Quick, we must make it to the White Queen" he started walking; Savannah and I ran after him, but being so small we fell behind instantly. One of his steps was many of our, he noticed we were lagging behind and grabbed us and dropped us onto the brim of his hat. My heart thudded at the height, I felt myself squeaking out a protest. Savannah loved the height but my world started to spin, I clamped my eyes shut. Three fingers wrapped around me and slowly lowered me downwards, my eyes stayed shut until I was sure I was not moving through the air anymore. I was sitting on the Hatters shoulder; he was looking down at me from the corner of his eyes. I attempted to smile but a jolt went through his body as he took another step, causing me to scream and grab at his shirt collar. I heard Savannah's laughter drifting down from above me.

After a while of walking my body relaxed, I took in the surroundings instead of holding onto the Hatters collar tightly. A squawk went off every few minutes; I could feel the Hatter tense every time there was. I pretended to be brave and stood up on his shoulder; I practically hugged at his neck and kept my face pressed up to it until I could convince myself to move towards his ear.

Another squawk went off, I whispered into his ear "Are we being followed?"

"I haven't..." he was cut off as another squawk went off. I couldn't see but I head a scream come from above, and then I saw a swooping down from the Hatters hat with my sister in its claws.

"I have the Alice" the bird screech. I screamed out Savannah's name but it was too late, she was gone.

I started to hit the Hatters neck, sobs erupted from me.

"My sister, my sister, this is your entire fault!" I yelled at him.

He picked me up and brought me close to his face "I'll take you to the White Queen; she will know what to do!"

"No!" I screamed at him "I want my sister!"

His face dropped into sadness "We can't..."

"Well I can!" I was crying now "Let me go"

He did, I felt myself drop, my stomach rose towards my mouth, but then suddenly his hand caught me, he cradled my like a baby, a very small baby that could fit in one hand.

I mentally decided he was right "Take me to the White Queen..."