While this chapter also featured Alice throwing fridges, the excerpt for today is a bit more of an important one. See, this is the point where Alice properly gives up, decides that it’s time to stop trying to make sense of anything at all and just go with it because obviously Wonderland hates her anyway. Also, cake!
From Chapter 7
No one also seemed to mind that there were two fully armed knights that waged battle into their kitchen, swords flailing wildly as the two met each other blow for blow. The Red Knight, unfortunately, seemed to be considerably more practiced and had quite the advantage on the White Knight. Still, the White Knight continued to fight quite hard and Alice wished there was something she could do to help.
She looked around for something that she might be able to throw at the Red Knight, hoping that might throw him off and give the White Knight a better chance. She knew that she would never manage to hit him from this distance, though, her throwing arm quite weak as the boys would never allow her to play their sports with them. She had played more feminine games with the other girls instead and now regretted it, knowing that she would not be able to help. Not that there was anything within arm’s reach to throw anyway. Instead what she could under the table was a very small cake sitting there with the words “Eat me” on it.
“Oh, I remember you,” she said, her eyes glaring down at the small cake. She leaned out from under the table and looked up on top of it. There, sitting just in front of the potatoes was a small basket of mushrooms with another little sign on them, this time stating “From the Caterpillar.” She looked between the two of them and shook her head. Wonderland was doing this to her on purpose.
[Header image by Shaz]
Tags: alice in wonderland, looking glass, nanowrimo
