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February 23, ****

From the Journal of the White Rabbit

I hadn't realized how long we were unconscious in that prison cell. I don't know about Alice, but I must have been in a coma. I had lost some memories about what was going on before that, but thankfully Alice filled those bits in for me on our way to seeing the Jabberwocky.

"Here we are," said Rulio, "the big, bad lair of the Jabberwocky!"

The room was filled with purple lights and red carpets. Fairly luxurious for a beast the size of the Jabberwocky. The Jabberwocky was a humongous black beast with scales outside his skin, almost like a dragon, but his head was fairly twisted around, with one eye closer to his forehead than the other.

"Looks like The Queen finally had enough balls to send you guys over to kill me," said the Jabberwocky, tossing a few red, ripe apples into his mouth, "You have done well, Rulio. Thanks to your quick thinking, I have a meal tonight."

"Which means I also get a salary increase, right?" asked Rulio.

"Perhaps," replied the Jabberwocky, "If I don't kill you first."

"What?" cried Rulio.

"I'm not an idiot, Rulio," roared the Jabberwocky, "I have security cameras. I know you've been stealing my mushrooms and selling them to outsiders!"

"Just a little entrepreneurism," said Rulio, "Nothing to get upset about!"

"Upset?" asked the Jabberwocky, "Who said I'm upset? I'm not upset."

"You're not?" asked Rulio.

"No," replied the Jabberwocky, suddenly booming, "I'M FURIOUS!"

The Jabberwocky charged towards Rulio who was running away, but all he got was Rulio's left arm. Rulio bent down in pain, prepared to meet his end.

"Now's out chance," whispered Alice, who had cut herself free.

Alice cut off the ropes holding the Rabbit's hands together. The Rabbit happened to still have his gun on him and fired at the Jabberwocky's tail. The Jabberwocky glared at the Rabbit, but before he could take a stand, Alice threw one of her knives into the Jabberwocky's eye, blinding him.

"You bitch!" shouted the Jabberwocky, crashing into the walls around him.

"Rabbit, you take out the guards! Leave the Jabberwocky to me!" shouted Alice.

While the Rabbit withdrew his gun and started shooting the other guards (or just breaking their necks, depending on how close they were to him), Alice ran up the Jabberwocky's spine and up to this long neck.

"I hope this knife is long enough," said Alice, who also added "Off with your head!"

Alice had sliced right through the Jabberwocky's neck, sending his head falling down to the floor, just next to the bleeding Rulio. Soon, his entire body fell down and crushed much of the furniture underneath him. That was when Mary Ann had crawled out through the open hole in the Jabberwocky.

"That's where you were?" asked Alice, "How did you survive that?"

"Special training," replied Mary Ann, "Plus some helpful advice from the Dormouse a long time ago."

"The guards are all dead, Alice," said the Rabbit, suddenly looking over to Rulio, "What do we do about him?"

"C'mon, now, Peaches!" cried Rulio, "I never did anything to hurt you! I'm just the guy for hire! I'll be nice!"

"I'm curious," said Alice, putting her knife against Rulio's throat, "What did you mean by 'entrepreneurism'?"

"I just sold off some of the Jabberwocky's poison mushrooms, no big crime!" replied Rulio, "Go easy on me!"

"What were you selling them for?" asked the Rabbit.

"Just for people who were interested in poisoning other people they didn't like, that sorta thing," replied Rulio.

"I suppose he really isn't that harmful," said the Rabbit, "I guess he can keep doing what he does."

"Not if I don't get some treatment for my missing arm, I'm not," said Rulio.

"Oh yeah, we should probably do something about that," said the Rabbit, "But what?"

In a bizarre turn of events, we ended up taking Rulio back with us to get medical treatment. Surprisingly, the Queen knows actual medical doctors, as opposed to mad doctors like Burr. They bandaged his arm up and he decided to stay in town to continue his mushroom-selling business.

February 27, ****

From the Journal of the White Rabbit

I always said that as long as I'm paid I have no reason to ask questions, but today was the first time I had to ask myself what was really going on with the Queen.

The Rabbit was walking just outside the hideout, but through the window he saw the silhouettes of the Queen and the Hatter drinking champagne…and talking about something they clearly did not want anyone else to know about.

"Another one?" asked the Hatter.

"This time, it said 'The bloody eye is patient'," replied the Queen.

"But who…or what…is the bloody eye?" asked the Hatter.

"If I knew that, I wouldn't be asking you to look into it, would I?" the Queen replied rhetorically.

"Point taken," said the Hatter, taking another sip of his drink, "You think it has to do with what's inside the vault?"

"I'm not sure," replied the Queen, "Something like that can't be capable of leaving those cryptic messages."

"Well, I'm confident it's not the Dormouse," said the Hatter, "I went back to where she was drowned, and her body was still there."

"At least that is ruled out," said the Queen.

It seems like there were more details behind the Dormouse's death than the Queen was willing to let on. And they mentioned something inside a vault, but I have to ask…what vault?