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Alice had a very strange dream that night.
She dreamed, that she had fallen through a mirror, met a Mock Turtle, been attacked by a horrible creature and been taken to tea with a mad man by a floating cat.
She woke up to discover, that the dream had not ended.
She rubbed her eyes. No. She was still in a very strange room, in a very strange bed wearing her dress. She blinked. Nothing changed. She pinched herself.
"Ow!" she exclaimed. No. She was still here.
She decided to get up, if she was still dreaming, then she imagined that the strange man from the Tea Table would be about somewhere. After all, she must still be dreaming.
Alice stepped quietly onto the landing. To her left, the hallway stretched to another room. As she walked towards it, she began to hear the sound of shallow breathing. She presumed that this must be the man from the tea tables room. What did he say his name was? Thomas? No, that wasn't it. Timothy? No... Tarrant! Yes, that was it. Tarrant his name was.
She hovered outside the bedroom door for a few minutes, unsure of what to do. Finally she plucked up her courage, and was about to knock on the door when she heard a crash from downstairs, and a shout of a voice undoubtedly Scottish.
"TARRANT! YER ALL LATE FUR TEA!"
The shout, not only startled Alice, but also apparently woke Tarrant, for she heard a thud (him falling out of bed) and within seconds, the door was flung open in her face.
"Alice?" he said, looking at her both startled and confused
"Hello" she said weakly "I think there's someone downstairs"
His eyes widened "Thackery" he said, and ran down the stairs with Alice in hot pursuit.
She followed him through the house and outside to the tea table, were she stopped abruptly behind Tarrant as she saw that the voice now had a face, the face of a Hare.
"Tarrant?" Alice said
"Thackery!" Tarrant said
"Alice!" Thackery said, loudly.
"Well now that we all know who we are!" Tarrant said louder.
"Yes, yes, yes, yes, tea. Very late, tea, tea, tea c-c-cup" the Hare looked at the cup he was holding, as if he'd only just realised it was broken.
"Thackery, it is six in the morning. Tea time as we all know is six at night!" Tarrant pulled back a chair and sat down obviously tired.
Alice had the strangest wave of wanting to put her arm around him, but quickly squashed the feelings and took a chair next to him wondering what on earth they'd meant.
"Tarrant, you're losing your muchness. Tea time is any time"
"Yes well. I'd prefer tea; after I'm done sleeping" he grumbled
"Anyways" Thackery continued "it's good to see you Alice" he sipped his tea.
Tarrant's head snapped up and he shook it subtly at the March Hare
"I don't believe we've met?" said Alice "How do you know my name?"
Thackery looked from Tarrant to Alice and back again. His face appeared shocked for a second, and then came the burbled nonsense.
"Not you, maybe, tea, Mally, muchness, grape!"
"Ignore him he's mad" mumbled Tarrant who's head was resting on the table.
"Who's calling me mad?" Thackery retorted
Tarrant suddenly looked up, to Alice and back to the house.
"Alice, don't tell me you went to sleep in that dress?"
Alice gave him a baffled look "well yes" she said "What else?"
"We're going to Memorial today!" He frowned "We can't have the White Queen see you looking so bedraggled!"
Alice blinked "What do you propose we do then?"
"You can wear one of the dresses that you left last..." he caught himself "Eh, that my, eh, sister left... last time you, eh, she visited"
"Are we the same size?"
"Eh, yes"
The dress was beautiful, long and white. It had a matching clock which was made out of a matching silk. Alice felt a warm shudder drip down her spine when she put it down.
"You're sister has excellent taste!" Alice said when she came back downstairs after changing.
Tarrant smiled "she does"
Alice noted that he too had changed, and was now wearing a cream flowery shirt with a brown and pink bow tie, the same brown jacket from the night before, and of course, the same top hat.
"We had best get going" he said "it is quiet a walk to memorial and" he added under his breath "you're not in the best shape to travel by hat"
"Okay" said Alice
Several hours later... well, it is assumed it was hours. Time was being an ignorant brat.
"Are we there yet?" Alice asked
"No" said Tarrant
"Now?"
"No"
"How about now"
"No. You'll know when we're there. It's rather hard to miss!"
Alice sighed.
He smiled "don't worry, we're nearly there"
Alice smiled back.
There was an awkward silence when neither the two of them knew what to say. At last Tarrant said,
"Tell me about your daughter? Minerva did you say her name was?"
"Yes" Said Alice "Minerva"
And so Alice told him about her. About her looks and odd little habit, about the way she could hold a conversation better than most adults, about the many memories she had of her, about the way she could always tell when they were going to move again. She talked for what seemed like hours, and all the time, Tarrant listened. In awe of what families were like. He remembered his that had been taken from him so long ago.
"No father?" said Tarrant "how strange"
"Yes" said Alice "My mother keeps trying to match me up with someone, but, she doesn't understand! I can't just fall in love with someone just because she says so!" Alice looked at him and suddenly blushed. He too looked away quickly, his pale cheeks going pink.
There was another awkward silence, only to be broken by Alice's squeal a few seconds later.
"Oh!" she squeaked, pointing
Alice had never seen anything like it. Memorial Palace was large and grand, in pure white. Its entrance followed alongside tree's of beautiful white blossom. Alice had the strangest feeling she'd been there before, and yet she could not quite see why.
"Alice?"
Alice turned to face Tarrant who had a look on his face as if he were about to say something important but couldn't figure out how to say it.
"Yes" She said
The words were taken out of his mouth as the grand doors to the palace were flung open, and a woman with long white hair, dark eyebrows, and a long beautiful white dress walked gracefully out.
She looked at the pair in front of her and for the first time in years, let out a genuine smile.
"Tarrant" She said "thank you for bring her to Memorial"
He nodded
"Alice" said the woman "you are probably tired, and confused"
"Yes" said Alice smiling too
"I want you to know that you are in safe hands. Everything will soon be explained to you" The woman glanced at the sky "However, it can wait. You'd better come inside, I think it may snow"
"Snow?" Alice was even more confused.
"But, it's July?"
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