This is probably shorter than the previous chapter...But there wasn't much to write for it.
Still waiting for the Cat to show- actually looking forward to that.
I own neither Kingdom Hearts nor Alice in Wonderland.
As Roxas followed the path the trees began to thin, and he heard giggling and talking from up ahead. Then he saw flowers, nodding and bobbing cheerfully in the wind. It almost seemed to him that the laughter and chatter was coming from the flowers, but he knew that was absurd. Flowers didn't have larynxes.
As he approached, it fell silent. He walked through the flowers, shocked by the sudden silence, when suddenly, someone said-
"What is that? A crossdresser? Ew! How'd he get in here?"
Loud laughter suddenly erupted around him as he looked for the source of the outburst.
"Now, now, Larx, I'm sure he's just lost…But I must admit, trespassing into my garden isn't exactly something that I look kindly upon."
"Hmph! Well, if he's going to be wearing a dress, he should at least be wearing something cuter…I mean, solid black is soooo ugly."
"I know!"
Finally, he saw them. Two women- no, wait, the pink-haired one was a guy- in a small clearing in the garden. The man was lounging on a massive mushroom, smoking a hookah, while the woman was seated on the ground, her yellow dress spreading out around her like flower petals.
"Oh dear, it looks like he noticed us, Mar-Mar!"
"Hm. Well, we are being quite loud." Then he turned pointedly to the flowers and said, "Why are you guys so quiet? Why don't you sing for our…guest?"
At this, the flowers began to emit a humming sound, each at a different pitch determined by the kind of flower. It was a wordless song, but rather beautiful either way. But Roxas got the feeling he wasn't wanted there.
"So, boy…how did you stumble upon my garden? If that Cat sent you here, tell him he's not funny and I will send him some of those Tiger Lilies I recently planted!"
"Cat? I'm sorry, sir, I don't know who you're speaking of…I was following a White Rabbit."
"White Rabbit?" He puffed on his hookah.
"He probably means Namine, Mar." The woman had turned her face up to the sun, and was breathing in the air deeply.
"Oh! Why would you ever follow her? She works for the Queen, you know- a nasty piece of work, that one. She'd behead you as soon as look at you- that's the only reason she's queen. And nobody even NOTICES the King- I mean, he might have died 6 years ago and we wouldn't even have known."
"…Huh?" This guy was all over the place with his conversation…maybe it was because of whatever he was smoking?
"Basically, you don't want to follow Namine, because she'll probably lead you to the Queen, and the Queen will have you beheaded as soon as you set foot in HER garden. Of course, we aren't too happy about you being here in Mar-Mar's garden, but we won't do anything too severe to you…that is, if you stay on our good side." Now she was laying down, kicking her green-stocking feet in the air. "But we'd rather if you didn't stay long."
"But I don't know how to get out of here…."
"Simple. Follow the path; reach the fork, and go down either way, since both ways lead to somewhere else." He took a deep drag from his hookah.
"Does either way lead home?"
"Depends where you call home, boy. Now get." Here he puffed smoke into Roxas's face, making the boy cough and temporarily blinding him. When the smoke cleared, he was once again alone on the forest path, with no sight of the garden or the two beings in it.
How did you like that? Mar-Mar is obviously the Caterpillar, and Larx is just a flower.
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