Chapter 31 and I'm pretty sure I'm going to have like 35 chapters or so, one being an epilogue. So, don't fall off the face of the earth any time soon. Enjoy!

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Imogene was buried the next day, in the large garden by the castle. Her headstone was placed into the head of the dirt and words were carved into the stone.

Imogene Alice Pleasance Liddell. The girl who started it all. Aunt, Sister and mystery. We'll never forget you.

Alice had those seventeen words memorized already as she walked down the palace steps with her sister by her side. They were both wearing long black dresses, except Margret's hair was pulled back into a long delicate braid. Alice wouldn't tie her hair back yet. Mirana had asked what Alice wanted to write on her aunt's headstone, but she wouldn't answer her, so Margret decided to write them. They were beautiful, like Imogene was but they still felt so tiff, so unreal. Like this was all a dream, but instead it was a never ending nightmare that Alice still couldn't wake up from.

The one thing Alice did have written on the Headstone was something that you could only see from the back. The entire stone was barley a few inches from the ground and about a foot wide. It was placed along where Imogene's body would be in a large part of the garden, near a tree that would shade it and surrounded by beautiful flowers. It was somewhere Imogene would have loved. Alice had asked that a poem be written at the back of the stone, words you'd only be able to read if you were looking for them. It was a secret message for her aunt.

They carried Imogene's body in a dark box that had been used for Underlandian funerals, similar to a coffin but different as well. Alice watched silently while they lowered it into a dark spot in the ground, a whole that would forever hold Imogene's body, and then everyone was silent for a moment. She wouldn't look at the people who surrounded her. Mctwisp whose head was down and Mallmkun who was wearing a tiny black shirt, minus her needle. Thackery who was holding onto a small tea cup, or Nicholas who was staring down at the hole like he still couldn't believe it was where Alice's aunt would forever lay.

Irisa was there too, leaning on the Hatter slightly. She'd managed to escape the battle with a sprained ankle and a few cuts and bruises. She wore a black dress with nothing fantastic about it, and hatter was dressed similarly. He even had his heat in his hand instead of his head.

Mirana said the words that a priest would have. She wore black for the first time ever, and she looked as sad as Alice felt. She'd lost someone too, the person that had killed the very woman that Mirana was burying in her garden.

"We are gathered here, to honor the memory of Imogene Alice Pleasance Liddell." She said in a clear voice. "A woman who'd found Underland years before our champion had, and who had befriended many before she was taken away and sent back to the world she'd come from. She gave her life in the line of battle, and helped our champion slay the monster that had plagued our world once again. She was also, the aunt of Alice and helped her more than I can imagine." Mirana looked over at Alice as if she expected her to say something, and instead, Margret nodded and grabbed Alice's hand, bringing her sister to where Mirana had stood, but now stood along with the other many onlookers.

Margret turned to Alice and pleaded with her eyes for her sister to say something, but Alice said nothing and finally Margret sighed and turned back to the rest of the group.

"I wasn't as close to my aunt as I should have been." Margret admitted. "For a long time, I thought she was….just crazy. She used to tell us that she was engaged to a prince, but he couldn't be with her or else forfeit the crown, and now I know that's true. I know that Imogene was in love with a man who she couldn't be with, and that she belonged to a world that I didn't even know existed. And it's that world that my sister belongs to as well."

Alice looked up at her sister now instead of at the ground while she continued. "I know that my sister might not have always felt like she belonged in London, and now I know that's true. And Imogene didn't either. She belonged to the world where it was okay to be different and improper and wild. And I know that if Imogene was here right now….she would have told me that I belonged here too. But I don't."

Margret turned to her sister. "Alice, you're just like Imogene and you're just like our father. And I know he would have given anything to see what you were like on the battle field yesterday." Margret grabbed her sister's shoulders, making her look up and into her eyes. "Alice, I love you and so does everyone here. And Imogene loved you too, and she wouldn't want this. She would want you to stand up and say something, because you knew her best of all. But you're just…..standing here and doing nothing."

Alice stared at her sister and then at the rest of the group and took a deep breath. "What do you want me to do, Margret?" Alice asked in a quiet voice. "Because I don't know anymore! She was the only one who could understand what I've been going through, and couldn't save her. I could have stopped Iracebeth, and I could have saved her but I didn't. And now I'll l never know anything about her. You're all ready to let her go, but I'm not!" Alice couldn't take it anymore, quickly, she shook of Margret's and ran around the hole and then through the people that were making a path for her. And Alice did the thing she was best at, she ran away from everyone. And she kept running until she was in her old room, and she locked the door and breathed heavily for a long time, then, she grabbed her aunt's book and held it close to her body and walked over to the window that lea=d out to the balcony and she turned away from it, and sat down on the ground and pulled her knees close to her body and just sat there, willing the world to stop and just leave her alone.

Alice is having issues, just another thing I'm going to have to resolve in the next few chapters. Yay! Please review!