Alice's POV

It had been six months since I was in wonderland...my heart still aches for Mirana but yet no matter how much I dream and long to go back to her, I've never found another rabbit hole leading me to my queen, nor the guts to do so. I've done all I could in china, we set up our business and it has been doing well, I became a better champion for my queen, and I kept my promise to Hatter on never forgetting him, the Bandersnatch scar reminded me everyday of wonderland. It was hard to forget the people I longed to be with, it was hard to forget the one who stole my heart with the same line I used to hate "love at first sight".

I made a few friends in China but all were in a way normal...too normal for my tastes after my last visit in wonderland, I was hoping to find someone willing to randomly dance with me in the streets like Hatter surely would, to play chess with me like Chess would, to drink tea at a completely mad tea party. But alas humans were normal...it was boring but yet in China, at least more fun then being back at London, and sadly I was going back whether I wanted to or not according to my sister Margaret, her and my mother were expecting me to be married by now, to have found a husband and to settle down, so seeing as I haven't they are not trying to get me to date a random man once again.

This time he was worse than Hamish, he fully believed that I was nothing like the stories said of going to China, that I belonged at home with children and a great husband (meaning him), he believed what most men believed, and he hated me greatly but refused to give me up seeing as he wanted to "set me straight". I refused his "dates" many times but Margaret kept finding ways for us to cross paths which just normally ended up with him having a broken nose or a black eye really...it was dreadful having to be with that man, and having Margaret not understand. Earth was just no longer for me, sure I had a business that was doing amazing, but it was just no longer for me...

My father had once told me a line I use a lot..."you're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret...all the best people are"

Mirana's POV

Time in underland is a crazy and uncontrollable thing...it could be only four days in aboveland but here four years could pass by, the days wen't quicker or did the aboveland days just go slower? Tarant went on and on for a whole day questioning it all really, he believes maybe I have some sort of power to control the time, to make it go slower or faster according to how I feel, but alas he has just gone completely mad these days and has now been bound to his mad tea party forever. Not to move, only to drink tea in that same spot over and over every day...
like a human being cursed by time and that could never be fixed either.

It has been two underland years since Alice left, according to Chess who goes to aboveland no matter how many times I ask him not to...he says it has only been six months since Alice left in her world, six small months but yet two long years for us. It's amazing how underland works isn't it? Surely she must have found some sort of lover by then, she must have found someone who fell in love with her blue eyes that I could just stare at for hours, those calm wonderful blue eyes and that beautiful dirty blonde hair that I longed to run my fingers through.

I forced those thoughts aside as I listened to Tarant go on and on about the different ways to make hats and how he learned them all, it was as interesting as such a topic could get but yet my mind continuously wondered back to Alice, Tarant being completely and helplessly crazy couldn't give me any advice I desired at certain moments anymore, McTwisp always worried about work back at the castle. In two years many Kings from other kingdoms have asked for my hand in marriage, Of course being in love with Alice I haven't given a single one of them a bit of thought until two hours ago when McTwisp asked me who the king was going to be...I'd rather have a Kingsley but I must do what is "right" for my kingdom...or should I?

I decided to keep on the idea of me not needing a king, for many years before and during I met Alice I lived without a king, I ruled without a king, I am fine without a king, just not without my Kingsley... "yes that's it!"
Tarant interrupted my thoughts randomly speaking while drinking his tea, possibly full of sugar, "it's always tea time" I stared at him for awhile processing how it must be in his head, complicated, scary, unimaginative "Yes it is Tarant, always tea time for you" I took the last sip of my tea and rose from my chair "it is time for me to get going now Tarant, enjoy the rest of your tea, I will be here the same time tomorrow with Chess, Fair Farren Hatter."

Surely McTwisp would have been ashamed of me constantly going off and day dreaming these past two years but deep down inside I could care less what he thought at the moment...I did not wish to marry one who does not please me, who does not love me for who I am, who only wants to marry me because truly I am a queen. I did no care for any man, only my love who was far away from me, too far in fact, and has been far away for too long...