Chapter 4
"What's going on here?" Hatter asked, a slight growl in his tone, Alice backed away slightly,
"Hatter?" she asked, but he wasn't looking at her any longer, instead, he was looking at the space that the cat had just evaporated from, staring daggers at it, as if the cat were still there.
"Hatter?" Alice called out again, as a swirling malevolence churned in his eyes.
"HATTER!" she practically screamed, and he finally snapped out of his trancelike state,
"I'm fine," he choked out, his eyes sinking back into a slightly worried vibrant green.
"Really?" Alice asked, caressing the Hatter's cheek, it seemed chilled, and goose bu
Chapter 2
Alice ran through the park opposite the café only to find no one there. She looked in the windows of new by shops as well as the passing carriages, but saw no hatter, nor anyone as mad as he. She walked through the paths of the park and farther still until she was stepping over fallen trees in a thicket of woods. Buds of tulips had shot out of damp mud, some had blushed colors of pinks and purples, about to burst into bloom. The thick smell of Earth and April showers filled Alice's nose Twig by twig, she pulled herself deeper into the forest, making herself wonderfully lost.
"Hatter?" she called out, "I know you are here so
Alice awoke with a start. Her breathing caused her chest to rise and fall an uneven rate. A cold sweat wrapped around her body like the sheets of her bed. Once her heart rate began to slow, Alice was finally capable of processing thoughts; she had had the dream again. No, it had not been of her Wonderland, but instead a nightmare that had been reoccurring as of late.
She was on a ship in the middle of the ocean, there was a storm that churned the sea to black ink that shined like furious onyx. Lightning cracked through the sky with blazing animosity and the ship rocked with an unknown steady. Alice rocked with it as she slid about the deck,