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"Games? What games?" I asked, wondering curiously.

The Mock Turtle sighed heavily in the midst of his sobbing once more. He looked at me. "Have you ever been introduced to a lobster of any kind?" he asked.

I've eaten a couple of lobsters, but I haven't ever really been introduced to one. It's not really normal to meet talking animals, much less be introduced to some. Then again, he is kind of a sea animal thing, so I guess saying that I ate a lobster would offend him. "No," I said simply.

"Hmph." He cut out his sobbing about his life to chuff at me before starting once more, but quietly. "It doesn't shock me that you wouldn't have ever been introduced to one."

I rolled my eyes at his subtle insult.

He continued, "There is such thing as the Lobster-Quadrille. It's a dance where all sea animals, excluding jellyfish because they like to sting, partner up with every single available lobster, making two lines in front of the ocean. The pairs then dance with the lobsters closer and closer to the ocean shore before grabbing them and throwing them into the sea."

I tilted my head in confusion. "What?" I asked.

"I'm not done!" the Mock Turtle screeched.

"Okay, okay!" I backed off.

"Then after the lobsters are thrown into the sea, their partners have to swim after them and bring them back to shore to the back of the lines. And the dance continues until everyone's been thrown in or gets tired," he finished.

I wondered, thinking about all of the pretty, yet weird looking sea creatures that would perform. I pictured a small brown seal wrapping its tiny little flippers around a bright red lobster and tossing it into the water.

The Gryphon chuckled before suggesting that he and the Turtle perform a demonstration of the first part of the dance.

"Of course!" exclaimed the Turtle, his sobbing ceasing. "Oh, but which will sing?"

"You should sing, I can barely even remember half of the song!" said the Gryphon.

"Okay!" He cleared his throat before singing deeply in a very somber, emotional voice about a whiting talking to a snail about lobsters joining a dance. He moved around with the Gryphon until the song was over, they were both looking like they were about to cry.

I pulled myself together, taking a deep breath and letting it out. "That dance was very...interesting."

"How about the song? Did it tickle your fancy? Have you ever even met a whiting before?"

"Oh yeah! I almost forgot that time we had whiting for din-" I stopped short, remembering that these animals wouldn't appreciate the fact that I ate one of their friends for dinner.

"Since you've had them over for Din, even thought I do not know what this Din is, it must mean that you know much about them and what they're like."

"Oh, I know exactly what they're like! They have their tails in their mouths and crumbs all over them, especially with leaves and stuff surrounding them," I said excitedly, remembering when I ate them for dinner. I was still hungry too.

"Crumbs? Where? What crumbs? I have never met a whiting with crumbs before. I wonder what that's like," said the Gryphon. "Alice?"

"Yes?"

"Do you want to know why a whiting is called a whiting?"

"Uh, no."

"Well you're going to learn anyway."

"It does the boots and shoes!" screeched the Turtle.

"Boots and shoes?" I asked.

"What do you think polishes your human shoes?" asked the Gryphon.

"I'm pretty sure it's called like blacking or something. Maybe its just called shoe polish."

"Well, as your boots and shoes are done with blacking, boots and shoes under the sea are done with a whiting," he explained.

"Huh. I don't think I really needed to know that, but okay. thinking back on that weird song, I remember you singing something about a porpoise stepping on the whiting's tail, yet the whiting still danced with him. If it were me, I would've left the porpoise out of the dance because of that."

"It's considered incredibly dumb for a sea creature to go anywhere without a porpoise," said the Mock Turtle, a pun on purpose.

"Let's not talk about this anymore. It's incredibly boring. Alice, what have you done since you've gotten to Wonderland?" asked the Gryphon.

"Well, I can tell you some stuff about what's happened since this morning because it's who I am now. If I tried to explain yesterday to you, it would be nonsensical because I was a different person then."

"Well don't be shy! Go on and tell us all of that. It doesn't matter who you were or who you are, it'll all be the same in the end. Do spill your darkest secrets."

"They're not secrets, and they're not that dark." And so began my recountation of all of the events that have happened to me since I got to this extreme place. I started all the way at the beginning, from when I first saw that darned (but cute) White Rabbit.

I kept telling my story, but as I progressed, I got more and more uncomfortable, as the Turtle and the Gryphon started getting closer and closer to me as they listened on each side. They even opened their mouths and eyes so wide that I got incredibly creeped out and rushed through the last of the story so that they would stop.

I finished telling and all was silent until the Gryphon interrupted the noiselessness in the air. "Repeat 'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,'" he boomed.

"What? No, I don't remember any of that."

"I think you'd be better off stopping right there. Turtle McGrumpypants over there gets mad when others can't remember and correctly recite literature, if you couldn't tell," the Gryphon helped me.

"Yeah, I think you're right."

"So should I ask the Mock Turtle to sing you a tune or should we all work together to add onto the Lobster's-Quadrille?"

"I hate to even think to say this, but I'd rather listen to the Turtle."

The Mock Turtle sucked in a deep breath before releasing a somehow screechy baritone. He sung of beautiful turtle soup. The Gryphon was swaying along to the sound of the Turtle's voice when we heard a loud announcement cut through the air, stopping all noise around it.

"Let the trials begin!"

Hahaha cliffhanger. Sorry for the late update, business combined with school, you know how it goes. I was also thinking that after I finished this story, I would start on another. Any ideas? Sorry if the chapter was bad or offends anyone (I literally spent only 5 hours on it and I'm half asleep too so), and let me know what you think