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I felt like I was a ghost as I walked the empty halls, looking for my … Mirana. My feet carried me to wards the large lake near the east wall of the Castle. It was large with what looked like white water but the water was so clear you could see every one of the white pebbles that lined the bottom of the beautiful lake. The water was so still; it barely rippled as the soft green grass that surrounded it touched its surface as it blew in the soft breeze. I looked at my reflection in the water; I noticed so many little things I had never noticed before. Mirana and I had the same waves in our hair and we were both blonde, even though I inherited my father's dirty blonde that he had as a child before it darkened to dark brown. Mirana and I had similar coloured eyes, skin colour and body type. We both loved to read and had similar taste in books, fiction based on non-fiction events.
I noticed that the sky had turned from a light, cloudless blue to a dark purple-pink that made the clouds glow as the sun slowly set. In the waters reflection I saw a small pair of eyes staring at me from the sky.
"Hello Chesh," I said, sadly as I turned to see the friendly Cheshire cat pop the rest of its body into the sky. I noticed that his smile was noticeably smaller than usual.
"You know," he said with a hint of grimness.
"Why is it such a big deal? I have the right to know!" I said angrily as I turned and walked towards the front gate of the castle grounds.
"Because when you know the Red Queen kidnaps Tarrant," said Chesh, as he floated in front of where I stood, frozen in shock.
"Tarrant," I whispered as I felt my heart drop. I took one slow shaky breath as tears began to slowly fell from my closed eyes.
"Why didn't anyone tell me," I said softly, my eyes still closed to try and stop or at least slow my fast flowing tears over the thought of losing the one man I have ever lov…..
"That's why we didn't want to tell you," said Chesh, interrupting my train of thought, " we knew that when you found out about Mirana you would cry and not be able to fight to save Tarrant."
All the anguish and annoyance she had felt in the past few hours tore out from inside her in a shudder.
"YOU THINK I WOULDN'T FIGHT FOR HIM!" I screeched at Chesh, "HE IS WHY I RETURNED HERE!"
I looked at my reflection in Chesh's eyes, horrified at my ugly, angry reflection.
"Oh," I sighed as I felt utterly terrible for yelling at someone who had saved me more than once, "Chesh I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to yell, I'm just so frustrated! Why wouldn't I fight for him! I lo-…" I paused realised once again I almost said love.
"Like him, he is a good friend!" I continued, quickly.
Chesh gave me a look full of curiosity.
"Curiosity killed the cat, Chesh," I said in reply to his quite obvious glance.
"I know, but I have a secret trick," said Chesh, slowly making his tail disappear, "Your mother wants to see you."
He disappeared with the words that made tears begin to fall again.
'All this time, and nobody had ever had the guts to tell me!' I thought.
I wandered over to the large, white front door of the castle. What would, one day be my castle.
I stood staring at the door handle, thinking.
'One day, I will be Queen of Underland' I thought, 'I'm a Princess and my father, was the King!'
"You know how to open a door, don't ya?" said a voice from behind me, startling me.
"Maybe, she ain't wanting to go in!" said another voice, sounding similar to the first.
"Hello Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee," I said as they bickered about why I was standing, staring at the door.
"Maybe she is lookin' for a doorbell!" said Tweedle Dee.
"It's her castle! She don't need to ring no doorbell!" said Tweedle Dum.
"Hello!" I said, raising my voice at them, "This is the first time I've seen you two in years! And you haven't said hello to me!"
"'ello Alice!" said Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum in unison.
"Do ya think she knows bout the secret thing?" said Tweedle Dee to Tweedle Dum.
"Nah, 'coz we just saw Hatter in with the Queen." Replied Tweedle Dum.
"Tarrant," I whispered. Why hadn't he been taken? I have known the secret for at least 5 hours! I mean, not that I wanted him to be kidnapped, but I didn't understand, the prophecy said when I knew the big secret… Was there a bigger secret? There couldn't be a bigger secret than who my parents really were.
Thousands of scenarios were running through my head about what secret would be bigger than my parents true identities.
I pushed open the door to the white castle, I needed to know what secret could be bigger than my parents true identities.
"Mirana, I need to speak to you," I said as I walked into the Queen's Throne Room.
"Yes, Child, We shall go to the Tea Room," Said Mirana, solemnly.
I crawled into a ball as I sat by the warm fire in the tea room, Mirana sitting on a large, plush chair beside me.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" I asked, "If you had told me before I slayed the Jabberwocky, this may never had happened."
"It was not what the Oraculum had prophesised," said Mirana, "I wanted to tell you earlier, but that would go against what the Oraculum stands for and it would have made the future unknown to the people of Underland."
"But you could have changed the future, and maybe Tarrant wouldn't have to worry about being kidnapped.
"I ain't scared one bit, Alice." Said a voice coming from the far back corner.
"Tarrant," I whisper softly to myself.
