Disclaimer: I do not own Alice or the characters.
"This is pathetic." Hatter voiced as he looked about. The many books in the library were some he had never read but the size of the public library didn't even come close to being a quarter of the size of the library in wonderland. The mad Hatter was disappointed really, because he was hoping that Alice's world might have been a little more extravagant in their readings considering they had made a story or two about his world.
"I'm sorry it doesn't meet up to your standard, Oh great and wonderful Hatter." Alice sarcastically while rolling her eyes and dragging him by the hand to find something to read. Hatter didn't seem the least bit interested in the library as he had before. When Alice had told her husband they were going to the library he was more than excited and got dressed in record time. Now the man only wished they had decided to visit wonderland's library.
"Well they could have put more books in here. I'm sure your world has many more books than this." His voice couldn't have sounded more irritated than it did right then.
"Our world has many books but a lot of those books are in languages you and I do not know." Alice explained while glancing at the back of a book, trying to figure out what it was. Hatter was so surprised about this new information.
"You don't have a universal language?" In wonderland everyone spoke the same language, no matter where you went. Sure there were different types of slang here and there but everyone knew only one language.
Hatter's wife couldn't help but stare at him for a long moment or two. She had never known that wonderland was a universal place where everyone spoke the same. It didn't occur to her to wonder about that because she was being chased by a crazy hare-headed man. But afterward it had slipped from her mind to think about it. Now that it was brought up again, Alice could think about it.
"I didn't know Wonderland was a one language place. My world has many diverse languages because of how large it is." Alice tried to explain. But wasn't wonderland large as well? So how did they manage one language only?
"Wonderland is large too but we've only got one language. Then again most people in wonderland live rather close to the queen and the stragglers live out on their own. So I suppose it's easy enough to only own one language." Hatter explained while thinking about it. There wasn't a huge population in Wonderland since the queen had taken over. But now that Jack was back there was probably going to be a baby boom since things were less dangerous with the queen locked up.
"Well I suppose that makes sense." Alice thought about it for a minute longer and then started to read the back of another book. Hatter sighed while looking about again. Then he adjusted his hat and leaned against one of the shelves waiting for Alice to finish looking.
"It still doesn't make this library any less pathetic." Hatter mumbled but knew his wife heard him when he got a quick, sharp pain in his foot. He smirked as he looked at his Alice who was still reading the book, acting as if he had said nothing at all.