I’ve just left Wonderland and am pondering where Alice will wake up and how she’ll discover what her middle wish was, when and all sorts of other things I usually have planned out beforehand but this time opted not to because it’s a Wonderland story and it’s better if it all gets made up with crazy as I go along. Also, there was a huge tone shift and now Alice is back in reality and going to finally let the horror of the room of hearts settle on her. I think right after she tries to yell at Cat. They can talk proper later on in the chapter.
From Chapter 9
When Alice looked up from her curtsy, there was a book in front of her. She had a feeling she was gradually appearing in the room, but she couldn’t really be certain of that as her eyes were solidly upon the book, kept on a table with a glass cover over it that she felt she probably wasn’t meant to touch. The whole thing seemed a little off, and as she rose, she quickly looked around to find out just where she was.
She determined very quickly that this was definitely the room of hearts. It was a room where the walls were not only lined, but seem to actually be made of hearts. Not the nice hearts that the queen wore or any sort of derivative of it that she might have assumed was some sort of representation of hearts in Wonderland. Instead, the walls moved, beating together and, while the glass that held them back and in place was glassed over so that she couldn’t see the details, they looked like they were quite literal hearts. When she looked down, the floor was the same, only this time tinted in red and looking almost like they were sitting in blood instead of still beating in the ice.
Her brain started to shut down at the horror of it, but she hardly had the time for that. There was a door on one side of the room made of regular wood, unlike everything else in the room. She needed to hide, she knew, and she looked madly around for something that might hide her that wasn’t made out of the hearts of Wonderland.
There was a small desk near her that she went to and hid under, though she found out very quickly that she was wrong about it as well. The exterior was only stained to look like wood. Inside, it was a loose pack of hearts floating within it, shifting and moving, letting her see through the small gaps in them as someone entered followed by several more people. All of them seemed rather familiar.
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Tags: alice in wonderland, looking glass, nanowrimo
