It was just as Alice remembered it from the last time she came to Wonderland. Well, at least the drop was the same. Very slow moving and dull. However she had to admit, listening to William's screams for the first few moments of the drop gave her a small form of light entertainment. After five minutes, he was silent.
"Ok I want off this crazy ride now!" William complained.
"And how do you propose doing that Will? We're already falling!"
"But it never ends…"
"Oh it ends…soon." said Alice.
Then, as if something overheard the conversation, squinting past the blackness of the hole, they began to see solid ground. Alice thought for a moment. They had picked up so much speed since first jumping down the hole that to even think of a smooth landing was difficult.
"Get to a wall and climb down." She ordered.
"No!" William said stubbornly.
"Your loss then." Alice shouted back and grabbed hold of the smooth earth wall.
"There's nothing to grab onto anyway!"
"Yeah. Nothing but plant roots sunk into the earth."
And with that Alice grabbed onto a root sticking out of the wall and pulled. To her surprise the root was long enough and strong enough to pull her to the ground. Wherever she was now was no bother to her. All that mattered was that she was safely on the…
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
…ground. William came crashing down on top of her.
"Wow! Good thing you were here to break my fall huh?"
"Lucky me. Get off!" Alice insisted.
He didn't move. He stared at her for a moment. Alice stared up at him curiously. Then she opened her mouth as realization dawned on her.
"Have you ever been with a woman before?"
"No. Maybe. I might have been with hundreds." He said quietly.
"I'm sure you men would like to say that. Get off me!"
Alice shoved him off her body with all her strength.
"That hurt…"
She ignored him and got up, staring around the deserted dark room. It was empty. Tunnels branched out from every direction and all of them seemed to lead to nothing.
"What now?" he asked.
"You know…I have no idea. Any suggestions?"
"It's a million tunnels leading to nowhere!" William said, getting up from his spot on the ground.
"Nowhere that we know of…"
It was the very first issue they were going to have to face.