Still asleep on the floor of a high fortress-like tower, Alice was completely unaware of the point in space where Dinah and her have been taken to beyond the waterfall...The watch locket strewn around her wrist and the rough concrete on which the two of them laid began to wind speedily by itself...The hands of the watch which pointed at the twelfth hour sharp now resounded with soft chimes and began to move...

"Alice...Alice..."

The girl began to stir a little, as she could hear silent whispers in her ears, calling her back into her consciousness and senses...A little dizzy spell to overcome and stifling a light yawn, Alice gripped tight onto the ribbon strings of the endearing locket before she rubbed her pair of weary eyes open and pulling together all her strength to sit up again. After stretching her arms wide, Alice gently scooped her beloved Dinah back into her arms.

"Oh Dinah dear, was it you calling me? Now why did you fall back into sleep again?" Alice cooed her little companion, cuddling it close to herself. She would feel guilty should she attempt to wake up her sweetie kitten and decided to find out by herself of what has been happening so far. Glancing around from their position at a certain level of a tower with a height which seemed to ascend far above the low clouds, everything she could set her eyes on was foggy and dreamlike that made her felt like a floating being up in the skies. However, the curiosity within her could not be satisfied and Alice quickly got up on her feet to race through the blur misty air and gazed down from the tower...

"Wooow...Dinah, did you see all that?!" Alice had no need to nudge her little one awake for Dinah has already arose due to all her mistress' swift footsteps. As it opened its eyes, both of them were awed by the wondrous view below of the whole of Wonderland, reviving Alice's clarity and realisation of her once dream adventures out there...

"Oh, Dinah...This is so beautiful...of where I have once been...You should have come with me that afternoon...It's a world of nonsensical imaginations that never ends!" Alice smiled affectionately and lifted her amused Dinah a little up higher so she could get a more exhilarating sight of all the land below them...Alice was extremely drawn in to every bit of detail she could lay her eyes on so that nothing was amiss from her recollections.

"Alice..."

The familiar inaudible whisper came again, alerting Alice out of her engrossed reverie...As she turned about, causing the unexpecting Dinah to feel its head spinning, the walls like those of a thick ancient fortress behind them were seen having rapid torrents of water gushing out of them through widening cracks and hollows in between the pale white brick layers, shocking Alice and Dinah...

"Oh my, what are we gonna do, Dinah?" The alarmed girl bemoaned but poor old Dinah could only shake its head helplessly.

In their plight, Alice came to think of the mysterious unicorn friend which once brought them back into this never-before-known part of Wonderland, and so she held up the watch locket again. Indeed, she saw the pendant of its likeness still remaining inside the locket...Alice then quickly raced over to the walls and a thought dawned on her to tear off parts of edges of her white apron and stuff them into the spilling cracks as fast as she could. Agile Dinah crawled up to sit atop Alice's head grabbing her hair so she would not get in the way, but instead the kitty also cleverly lent a hand as Alice passed her those pieces of her apron.

The watch dangling from Alice's blue dress pocket has its hands stopped running and wound back to 12 o'clock. Before the two could even notice fully, the torrential flow of water also came to slow down considerably in volumes with the remnant that has filled the area quickly evaporating into the air in the form of huge soapy bubbles...Quick-witted Dinah nudged the still anxiously working Alice to look about and pause for a rest...When Alice took heed of her advisor pet, she was greatly relieved of the recovered sight around them and slumped down onto the moist ground.

Heaving in exhaustion and patting Dinah, the girl was even more surprised when she looked down at her own apron and found that it was still in whole with none of the edges torn. Instead, rainbow-colour flower laces began to appear around all the edges of her dress like sprouting seedlings, intriguing and delighting Alice and Dinah. Dinah then pointed out to her that those cloth pieces she had removed a while ago and stuffed tight into the wet cracks of the walls right behind them were creased, churned and transformed into real flowers.

Alice and Dinah looked at each other questioningly, and then Dinah shook its head in wonder.

"Hmmm...Now, who can explain this thing to us and where shall we go from here?" Alice got back up again and stared up at the towering wall above them.

A little wiggling of the watch locket in Alice's hand and a blinding light emerged to reveal their new unicorn friend materialising again.

Alice and Dinah gasped upon seeing him. Its unicorn shimmered and flashed as a pair of wings appeared from its body. It beckoned with its head for Alice and Dinah to climb onto its back once more. Following, it began to take both of them to approach the centre of the tower, flying up to a level much higher than the floor where Alice and Dinah once stood. To their amazement, they were able to go through the walls to reach past the solid bricks into the inside of the tower, flying and ascending over seemingly endless flights of winding stairs...

Dinah nervously gripped tight onto Alice, who in turn has her arms wrapped snugly around their unicorn friend's neck as they plunged through the thickening air...

-End of Chapter-


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