In this chapter you will see some Outlandish words. Here are their translation.

Frumious- Really smelly

Ezel- High, Orgal- Left,

Stang- Right, Slurking urpal slackush scrum- Cursing, Nunz- Wait,

Crims & Whitzend- Places in Underland, Gummer Sloth-Very dangerious and icky swamp

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The next thing Hatter knew, he was sitting under a tall tree in a grassy field, his top hat was tipped over his closed eyes. Hatter opened his eyes franticly and straightened his top hat. The light was very bright, and the smell was very strange. There was a little snail beside him. "Why hello, could you tell me where I could find Alice's house?" Hatter said to the snail, completely forgetting that in Aboveground only humans could talk. He stood up from the ground and leaned over waiting for his reply.

"Never mind."

Must be a rude snail, he thought.

He put his hand out above his eyes, trying to block out the blinding sun. He looked in the distance and saw a large house, so he made his way towards it. Hatter had never seen such a big house. His own house was very small. From where he was it looked as if it could have been the size of Marmoreal. The smell of Aboveground was making his head hurt. Hatter scrunched his nose looking around at this odd world that he was in. Frumious place, how does Alice stand it? He thought to himself.

When he got close to the house he saw there were people all around it, moving things and planting things. He thought that maybe a King or Queen lived there. There were so many workers. A servant girl tending a garden in front of the tall white house noticed Hatter.

He walked to her and asked, "Do you know where I can find Alice Kingsley?" He tried to say it as Alice would say it, as normal as possible. Trying to hold back from going into one of his many accents.

The woman starred at Hatter for a moment. "Uhm, yes. This is the Kingsley estate. Who are you?" Her brows scrunched and she looked at him like he was a creature from the Outlands.

"Oh, me?" He squeaked. Hatter noticed he was starting to draw a crowd. He looked behind him and almost all the attendants to the Kingsley estate were starring at him in disbelief.

"Well," He saw a pile of red apples on the ground. One of the attendants was feeding hay and apples to two horses hooked onto a carriage. He grabbed four apples and started juggling them. Behind his back, on a circle above his head and under his lifted leg. "I'm a clown." He called out to everyone. The attendants watched in amazement at his juggling. They all cheered and clapped when he stopped and threw each apple back in the pile one by one, each landing side-by-side.

If they were impressed by that, he couldn't imagine what they would have done if he Futterwackened for them. Thankfully, he didn't.

The women who he spoke to approached him. "Alice is going on a long voyage to China. Her mother is here tho. What does she want with a clown anyway?" She tiled her head to the side.

Hatter looked up and rolled his lips in thinking of something to say. "Well' um, I am a traveling clown. I am set to go on the voyage to entertain the crew."

"Then you missed your ship. It's already Friday morning. It left out two days ago or so I believe. Lucky girl she is."

Hatter almost went mad. He thought that he had lost his chance at saving her, but he then remembered that according to the Oraculum Alice had not yet been ship wrecked. So he might still have time to find her.

"I am going to..Catch up with them you see. So could you point me to the West Port dock?"

"I can see you really aren't from here. You will have to take a horse or a carriage if you want to get there today."

"And where can I find one of those?" He said with a bit of a lisp.

"You sure are funny. I can see if the lady of the house will let you use one of her carriages. After all the company paid you to entertain, so they should get their moneys worth."

"True, very true. Thank you."

"Alright then this way."

The Hatter followed on her heels, up to the entrance of the house.

The servant walked over to a gray and blonde haired woman sitting on the porch of the house, in a blue dress.

"Ma'am. This man is a clown, as you can see." The woman interrupted the servant girl. "He can explain it to me, you have work to do. That garden looks atrocious."

"Yes Ms. Kingsley."

Ms. Kingsley! Hatter felt as if a frog jumped down his throat. His nerves went through the roof because surely he would want Alice's mother to think fondly of him.

"So what is it?" She asked, already exasperated.

"I, I..I am Terrant." He suddenly started talking very, very quickly. "You see I was supposed to boardashipalongwithAlice, to be the entertainerforthecrew, but I missed the boat you see so now I mustgoback, Imustgoback today to the dock and there is another ship waiting for me, so I really mustgoback, so that."

"Terrant!" She yelled trying to stop his rambling.

"Thank you." He squeaked out.

"Alright, take the carriage. It's only me now anyway so I shouldn't be needing the extra carriage this afternoon. Did they pay you already?"

"Yes Ma'am. So it is very important that I go."

"I agree. Ascot hired you for a reason, so we want to be sure you make it."

Hatter hurried off to the carriage and headed out toward the West Port dock. As he was getting closer to his destination he was only getting madder and madder. He was still getting visions of Alice, in danger, in pain. When he arrived, he got out of the carriage and thanked the attendant driving the carriage while keeping his head down.

The dock was crowded. People coming and going. Hatter tipped his hat down, trying to cover his fiery red eyes and walked up and down the dock looking for an old beggar woman.

The sun was going down now, and the people were getting fewer and fewer. Soon there was not a soul in sight on the dock.

Hatter was getting beside himself as he continued to walk up and down the dock, but there was no beggar woman to be found.

"Wai'till I get back tae Underlain. I look Ezel, and low. I look Orgal, I look Stang. That Slurking urpal slackush scrum Oriculum Is playin' tricks o'an meh." He said out loud to himself.

"Nunz a moment." Someone called out to Hatter from the shadow of a ships bow.

Hatter tipped his hat up and looked around for who had said that.

"Are you from Crims or Whitzend?" The voice asked.

"Whitzend." He said hesitantly.

He walked closer to the voice. When the light from the moon shined down on the person, he saw it was an old beggar woman sitting alone.

Hatters face lit up with a bright smile. His eyes changed to a tranquil blue.

"It's you, I was about to go mad, or madder. I don't know who you are or how you know to speak Outlandish but I certainly am glad to see you." He wanted to give her a big hug, but she looked so old and fragile he might have hurt the poor woman.

"You looked familiar to me, and once I overheard you talking Outlandish I knew I had seen you before." She said.

Seen him before? What was she talking about. Hatter was perplexed by that since he had thought he only knew one person from Aboveground.

"My name is Seana, I used to call Underland my home. I was always very curious, too curious really. I wanted to see what Aboveground was all about. So I went. I felt happy here, and since I had no family in Underland, I decided to stay. My family all had such horrid fates you know. Lost my Mother in the Gummer Sloth,"

"Oh," Hatter squinted his eyes and said empathically.

"Father was never seen from again after a visit to the Outlands"

"Eeh!"

"And my brother to a Jubjub bird."

"Very sorry." He tipped his hat.

"It's too bad really about Underland though. I returned once, and found that everything was out of sorts. The Red Queen really did a number on Underland."

Hatter had never heard of anyone besides Alice and rabbit being able to come back and forth to Underland, but that was the beautiful thing about it, anything was possible there.

"Our Champion Alice came and saved us from," His voice changed into Irish brogue, "The Bludy Red Queen." Seana let out a cheerful cry. Hatter continued, "She has been banished and now the White Queen reigns once again. However I really must be going, you see Alice is in trouble. The Oraculum said I would find you here, and you would guide me to Alice."

"Your Champion is in danger?"

"Grave danger. So I have set out to save her. She is set on a ship to China. She has such great muchness, all she needs is a little help. I don't know where I'm going but I hope that,"

Seana interrupted, "Hurry, the ship there is leaving now, its heading to China." She pointed to a ship nearby."I call this port my home, so I know each ship and their routes." There were workers on deck, but they couldn't see Hatter or Seana because it was too dark. Seana looked back at Hatter and he was gone.

Seana smiled. Recalling fond memories of Underland she thought to herself, Maybe I'll return soon.

So far the Oraculum had lead Hatter in the right direction.

Hatter had snuck onto the Sail boat as it was leaving the dock. He hid in a room full of some sort of powder, with the word "Ammunition" on the barrels. He stayed as quiet as a mouse, well, an Aboveground mouse. Underland mice seem to talk quite a lot.

Hatter's visions were now becoming clearer and clearer to him. So he masterminded a plan to save his Alice.

What is his master plan? And where is Alice in the scheme of things now? Find out soon.