"Ah am gonnae Abovegrood tae fin'der. I won't let anythin' happen tae her."
"Good plan. However, you have got your color back. You and I do not look anything like the people from Aboveground. How will you avoid being seen."
"I won't. I made this suit and top hat special. If anyone wants to know who I am, I will tell them I am a traveling clown. Or that I am with the Circus." He walked around the room with his silly swagger. "Alice told me all about these things you see."
On her first trip to Wonderland, Alice talked with Hatter for hours over tea. She told him all about her world. Some of the things she mentioned was traveling circuses, and clowns. They were after all her favorite things.
Mirana pursed her lips and raised her brow. "Quickly then, I must mix a potion for you. It had better be a good one or else it won't work. So give me a few moments please."
Mirana knew her potion had to work or else Hatter would have to go through a mirror in the Room of Mirrors. It would work at getting him to Aboveground, but you can never be sure where you will end up. Hatter could wind up so far away from Alice that he would never make it in time to save her.
"As I mix the potion, see if you can make out from the Oraculum how you can get to Alice or you will be lost when you get to Aboveground." She said before she left the room. Mirana had saved some of the Jabberwocky blood for her own collection.
She was right. Without help from the Oraculum, Hatter would wonder around searching for Alice with no idea where to look, and knowing Hatter, he would never be able to live with himself if he failed Alice.
Hatter looked at the Oraculum. "Come now, I must find my Alice. Give me something."
He paced around the room, trying to think of another way to find her. He tipped toed over to the Oraculum, and took a sneak peek at it. The Oraculum was a fickle thing you see. It changes with what people decide. It had a mind of it's own so to speak. Hatter thought maybe if he played games with it, maybe it would reveal something for him, but the Oraculum knew nothing of games. Hatter grew weary from all the sneaking, and he fumbled his way over to the Oraculum and rested his elbows on the table, putting his face in his hands. "Alice needs me Oraculum. I will search for her until I have no life left in me." He lowered his head dejectedly.
Suddenly, a compass appeared on the Oraculum with an inscription.
"The bloomin' Albert west port red dock of England lives an old beggar wom' 'oo 'olds the kee ter findin' Alice."
"Yes thank you Oraculum. You naughty thing you."
You would have to be as mad as a hatter to understand what that inscription meant, which thankfully he was. He barged into the mixing chamber. "Mirana the Oraculum has told me where to find Alice!"
"What did it say?" She asked him as she added the last ingredient to her potion, slug sludge.
"The bloomin' Albert west port red dock of England lives an old beggar wom' oo 'olds the kee ter findin' Alice."
Mirana looked at him questionably. "Could you please translate Hatter"
"At the West Port dock in England I will find an old beggar woman who will tell me where to find Alice. It's simple." He laughed madly.
Mirana was quite worried that Hatter would have more trouble than he would have thought at finding Alice, but she had seen him get himself out of impossible situations before. She had faith in him. After all he was the most intelligent person in all of Underland besides Absolum.
"Drink this." Mirana handed hatter a steaming spoon of potion.
"Goodbye my Queen."
"Keep our Champion safe."
"Aye, It's meh duty."
With one sip of the potion Hatter faded away from Mirana's sight and the spoon dropped to the ground.
"Good luck Hatter" She said with a soft voice.
The Queen rushed to look at the Oraculum, but nothing had changed. In the end Alice's fate was still the same. I'll go take a stroll in the garden and chat with the trees. Maybe they can ease my worry's.
"How many more days until we reach our first stop?" Alice asked the captain of the ship.
"Our schedule has planned for us to be there by Saturday morning." The captain could see from the glum look on Alice's face that she was not enjoying herself what so ever. "Is this your first boat trip Alice?"
She couldn't help not being impressed, after riding a Bandersnatch and top hat, a sail boat didn't seem so marvelous.
"Yes this is my first time."
"It's great isn't it?" He smiled, showing his half rotted teeth. I guess being out at sea for so long had made him forget about his oral hygiene Alice thought.
"It is sort of nice. The sea air brings back a fond memory." That memory was of when the Bandersnatch opened his mouth wide and let out a blood curdling roar blowing her hair back. The sea air reminded her of the way his breath smelled. Foul and fishy, but exhilarating.
"What memory is that?" The captain said to her, bringing her back from daydreaming.
"When I visited the most wonderful place."
"So it must of had a nice beach then?"
"Surely." Alice could only imagine if there were a beach in Underland, just how amazing it would be. "Did you know my Father?" She asked.
"I sure did. We took many voyages together. What a good man he was. Sorry he is not with us now."
"Me too."