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A watch full of wheels

We walked down the path until I heard some maniacal laughter and the clinking of ceramic. "Mind you," The Rabbit muttered, "These three are quite the characters."

"Well, as I would expect from their names- one of them at least," I replied.

We approached the area, and I saw that it was a tea party-looking thing.

There was a clatter of dishes, and a shout, "Well if it isn't the White Rabbit!" Laughter followed.

"Yes, yes. Mad Hatter, March Hare, this is Allegra Liddel," Rabbit said, quite sharply.

The laughter and clinking of cups stopped suddenly. The March Hare stood up from his seat, "Come to take the rest of our sanity, Liddel?"

"We never had any, Hare," Hatter said, and that resulted in roaring laughter.

"But we honestly know better than to invite another Liddel to our tea party!" Hatter huffed, red-faced. "plus, there's no room!" The Hare added.

I crossed my arms, "There are nearly 14 seats! There's plenty of room! But of course, I would not want to attend a tea party this untidy."

"We rotate seats when the dishes at the current seat get dirty," They said. The Hatter took a bite out of his teacup plate. I gave him a look but quickly realized that this was all normal. 

"Very untidy," The Rabbit nodded. 

"Untidy? Well, your outfit is quite untidy!" The Hare snapped, pointing at Rabbit.

The Rabbit gasped, and grabbed the nearest plate, and threw it at the Hare's head. It met its target with a loud shatter of the ceramic. The Hare apparently wasn't stunned by it, but I was. The Rabbit yelped when the Hare grabbed the teapot. 

"Okay, okay!" I shouted, "That's enough!"

The Rabbit pulled out his watch, "My, we should get going soon. We're going to be late!"

The Hatter yanked the watch out of Rabbit's hand and looked at it. "My friend, this watch is two days late!" 

The Rabbit's eyes grew wide- well, as wide as a skeleton rabbit's empty eye sockets can get. "It is?"

"'Tis indeed! We must fix it!" The Hatter declared.

A few seconds later, he had the watch open and was pulling out all the springs and wheels. "Why! This is a watch full of wheels!" 

I tilted my head in question but didn't say anything. The Hatter yelled for butter, and the Rabbit nearly dropped it. 

Soon enough, there was a watch with butter and a bunch of missing wheels and springs. 

"My watch!" The Rabbit cried.

"There! It's all fixed!" Hatter shouted triumphantly.

He held up the watch, somehow, he had managed to put pink cake icing on it. "Did you bake a cake in it?" I asked, snickering.

The March Hare, who was currently chugging his cup of tea, spit it out- onto the Hatter. "We forgot to bake a cake!"

The Hatter wiped the tea off and gasped. "We did!"

"This is our cue to leave!" The Rabbit shouted quietly, and we left.

I could still hear the shouting and laughing of the two mad characters once we reached the forest.