"How can you wear these things all day! They're killing me after just two minutes!" Gina scowled as she was led around the ball room by one of the faceless employees of the queen. Today she was being taught to ballroom dance... Another annoyance that the queen had ordered for her.

"You will learn in time, dear Gavrilla. We are doing all we can to assure that you have the best life you possibly can while living here with us," The curly haired queen said as she sat up above watching from her throne on the balcony. "Every lady must learn to dance, dear. You don't want to stumble and fall when your time comes to be flitted across the floor." She tapped her long fingernails on the arm of the throne, sending out a soft click, click, clicking from her direction.

"Who the hell would wanna dance with me?" Or her question probably would have been better voiced as, who the hell would she want to dance with. Sure wonderland was full of great guys, but she was better at being friends than actually getting close and girlfriend like. She did her best as she spoke to follow the steps that the butler like man was leading her through, but she couldn't help but step on his feet one out of five steps... She felt bad for the poor man, seeing as the queen would probably take off his head if this continued. She honestly didn't care too much for these faceless people, but still felt bad when one met their doom and it was her fault.

"There are plenty of candidates for your hand my dear Gavrilla, do not underestimate yourself," the queen said with a slight smile. "Three more times around and we will go over tea etiquette again during lunch. Make sure to change out of your ball gown into your tea gown when done here. We shall meet you out there in a matter of moments." The Queen then with that departed from the ballroom, a soft clicking comming from her own high heeled shoes... Her's were far taller than Gina's, which only made her fear more for what the future of her poor feet would be.

A Bullet wistled through the air, hitting the butler square in the temple of this head. He fell to the ground in an instant. No doctor was present to pronounce him dead, but it was fairly obvious as the thick, crimson liquid oozed out across the ballroom floor. Gina took a number of steps back, slightly shocked at the event, before turning her head and seeing her March hare friend walking casually towards her.

"Still getting your name wrong I see," He frowned, putting the gun back in his belt. "and I'd dance with you," He laughed taking her hand and escorting her out of the ball room. Both of them in laughter now as they slowly sped up their pace towards the palace's exit.

"Hold up a sec!" Gina took the black high heels from her feet, snapping the heels off, and tossing the pair of shoes into the garden, accidentally hitting one of the workers upon the head with a clunk. "I'd go barefoot any day rather than wearing those things. You should tell Blood to use it as a new torture method for the twins or something." This brought a smile to Elliot's face, thinking of the two prancing around with aching feet out at the gate... It'd surely make them stay in one place... That was less painful than actually walking in them, right?

"Will do," He said, and within the next few minutes they were out. Out of the palace, yes. But now they were faced with a new challenge. Where would they go now? They couldn't go to the mansion... Chelsea had pretty much banned Gina from coming within feet of it. But there had to be another option...

"Lets go to town get you something so you don't have to go barefoot and get some carrot cake... Sneaking into the palace has made me pretty much starved!" He'd pretty much emptied his gun too, so he'd need to get some bullets in town too...

"A Picnic?" Gina asked, knowing quite clearly that Elliot wouldn't be verry welcome at the amusment park due to the whole enemy situation, and Gina was just as keen on staying away from Chelsea as Chelsea would have wanted... Though that didn't stop her and Elliot from hitting it off... Infact, it helped greatly. But Gina didn't know any picnic spots to go to... or even if there were any that they could go to. They had to find a place of their own. A place that none of the teritories cared about... Or aplace Chelsea just had no idea of.

"A Picnic... Sounds like a plan, but where..." Elliot seemed quiet most of the way to town after that, in thought... They were pretty much on the same page for thoughts though... but Elliot had more insight.

He was pretty sure Blood had some sort of abandoned underground base somewhere... But finding it again would be a challenge. He'd go ask, but no doubt there were palace minions out there looking for "Gavrilla" as the moments passed by... And the lost shoes didn't help that either. The queen would've been frantic! A gun shot, and her little princess is gone. It made him laugh what might have been going through the queen's head right now. Blood would be proud of him, Waging his own sort of war... But that definatly wasn't what it started out as, or what it was in any sense to begin with. For the time being, they'd settle for the back party room of the cafe they'd gone to before, and he'd come get her later when he found a place they could just hang out. "Yo, Gina... how about you go hang out with that Emma chick for a little while, tell her whats up... I've got some work to do for now..."

Gina's face turned sad for a moment, but then she relized she hadn't hung out with her favorite Canadian for ages now! Or well, since they got to wonderland anyways... which had been a few days at least; seeing as she'd honestly lost track of time... She wondered how things honestly were going back at the amusment park... she shouldn't have had much competition for the amusment park's cat... right?

Well, she was wrong on that war front. Completely wrong. It wasn't even a competition for the most part, as it seemed that the opposing side had already won... And it had won before Emma had even made it to wonderland to show her face. This of course seemed to crush the girl from the beginning, when she forced herself to think of it only as her imagination getting the best of her. She'd spent the past day in her room, sewing new costumes, styling wigs, doing whatever she could to take her mind off of it.

"Hey, the mouse is outside and Alice went back to the tower, we'll get 'im here and now!" Boris said as he barged in on the slightly depressed girl, as she worked away at her sewing machine. "Hey, whats up? You don't look too into it," Be blinked, waving a hand infront of her face... "Hello? Earth to Emma~" He pulled on an ear of her cat hat, which made her look up at him with a tired expresion. She hadn't gotten enough sunlight in the past day, and like it would to anyone, it wore her down a fair bit. "Nyaaa... You're comming with me," he took her by the arm, dragging her outside into the light of mid-day. "We don't have to chase around the mouse, if you don't want..."

"Its okay, Whats your plan?" the cat hatted girl asked as she stretched in the sunlight. "S-sorry about the butterfly net fail earlier..." She fixed her wig, taking her het off for a moment to do so. The hat was old, and the buttons on it, as well as the fabric of the hat itself were starting to show their age after the year of her wearing it every single day.

Boris stood for a moment, thinking to himself of what they could do, but before long their chances of catching the mouse depleted as they started talking, and going over diferent plans, why they would or wouldn't work, and how to fix them so they they would. Boris, who usually just settled for chasing pierce around with a fork and knife merely for laughs, ended up running around the park for what seemed like ages with the young cat hatted girl. It was fairly obvious the two enjoyed each-others company. By the time Gina had arrived at the amusement park, clad in her clover green ball gown and all, Boris had been teaching Emma a few stunt techniques. Like how to jump from high heights, and not kill yourself. Of course, he never expected her to actually use them without him there to help... She was just another fragile little foreigner. But if it did end up helping her in the future here, he would gladly take the credit for showing her.

"Well You two seem to have hit it off pretty damn well!~" Gina whistled as Boris began to lead her through another stunt. Boris jumped from the large colorful brick wall that closed in the park, waving for his Foreigner to follow in the jump down.

Emma took a look down at where she stood atop the wall, the brick was hot from the now extremely long noon day sun. She looked down at her feet, which had obviously had a change of footwear during all of this to a pair of shoes that were more able to sustain the blow from such a height. She looked up at the sky, down at the grass, and slightly further to the pavement. Her goal was to hit the green grass below, and to not go too far to the pavement for now. that would wait for next time.

She took a deep breath, Looking at the cat man below as she took the plunge as her pink friend had taught her, landing on target, stance spread and hands helping to brace her impact. The only thing missing from this was a pair of real cat ears, and a real cat tail... Then it would look complete. Right then though, she just looked like an awkward ninja. She unclenched her eyelids, looking around for the punk cat who had been teaching her, but he was gone...

"Or not," Gina said with a surprised blink. The cat had spotted his blue dress, white Apron, Big bowed Alice on her way in, and as soon as it looked like the newbie would make it down without dying, well. He figured it was alright to run off... why wouldn't it be? She was okay, and it looked like she had one of her friends here now too. "Whats with the Googly eyes for Alice? I thought she was in love with Blood in the books..." Gina pondered as she looked over at the two. They seemed even more couple-y, with how blushed her face got, flustered and all, getting angry about something. Had she sensed the friendship between Emma and Boris? Looked like it. Either that or she was mad that he'd been pulling stunts in general... And even more so, teaching yet another inhabitant how to almost get yourself killed. It looked like a combination of both of the scenarios, but you could never be quite sure unless you were in earshot... or a master of reading lips. Neither of which made the checklist for right this moment.

"Sorry 'Bout your luck dude," Gina said with a pat to her now semi ninja-friend's back, "Theres still Blood, and the twins!" She laughed at the second mention. The bloody twins had always reminded Emma of her younger brothers, both in Attitude... and one of them was named Donovan, resulting in the nickname Dee from times long before Heart no Kuni no Alice had ever been thought of. Emma Just stood there frozen, watching as if she had been abandoned then and there... Cats did get bored easily, she did realize that, but that was no excuse. She had to do something.

SHE clicked better than Alice.

... No offense to Alice of course.

If it weren't for this little indecent, Emma had no doubt in her mind that the two of them would be best friends here!

They stood there watching. Watching Alice, and gina Blinking at an oddly silent Emma for a matter of minutes. The time changed, and another hand was on her shoulder. "So I'm guessing you're in on my plan to kill her too?" Summer said cheerfully with a gleam in her eye, Making the two other girls jump in surprise to both her suggestion, and her sudden appearance. There was a cool, creepy, almost demonic presence around her, the now evening sunlight setting a gleam off of her glasses, stunning the two girls' eyes.

"WHAT?"