The Land of Wonder

Chapter 1

I sit in my white room, drawing Wonderland in my sketchbook. Oh how I miss it. And Hatter.

"Alice, you have a visitor." My nurse says, poking her head in my room.

After I returned from Wonderland, I told my sister of the adventure, and she thought I was crazy. Now I'm locked away in the looney bin. I looked up once in was in the visiting room, and saw my sister.

"Lorina!" I exclaimed gleefully.

"Alice! How I've missed you, little sister! And look who I've brought!" She said, shoving a kitty my way.

"Dinah! My frisky kitten, I've missed you too!" I squealed, petting her soft fur.... Cheshire....

"I'm so glad you came to visit, Lorina. Its awfully lonely here. I miss being home..." I trailed off, remembering how she didn't believe in Wonderland.

I quickly shrugged it off, and grinned at her.

"Well, I have another surprise! You're getting out of here!" She said, clapping.

"Really? I am?" I asked, incredulously.

"Well, not for good, but, your doctor gave us permission to go back to our tree to read for a couple hours." She explained.

"Oh..." I sighed, disappointed.

"Hey, you'll be out of here for good someday, but Alice... Wonderland isn't real. It was your imagination..."

"NO! It wasn't!!! Its real! I met Hatter, and Cheshire, and The Red Queen! I slayed that damn Jabberwocky! Im the White Queens Knight!!! Why don't you believe me, Lorina, why?!!?!" I shouted at her.

She flinched back, and the guards looked at me, debating whether to intervene or not. Lorina was scared of me. Last time I pushed her and she broke her leg and got a concussion. Thats when everyone decided I was unstable, and threw me in here.

"Lorina, I'm sorry. Its a touchy subject... Can we go now?" I asked her, holding my arms out for a hug.

"Come on, then." She said, hugging me back, warily.

We rode to our destination in her carriage. The ride was uneventful. We just sat in a comfortable silence until we reached our destination. The sight almost made me cry. It was perfect. I ran to our tree, and climbed onto the thick branch. Lorina made her way over, and sat at the base of the tree, just like old times.

"One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it- It was the black kittens fault entirely...." Lorina started reading from her picturless book.

I was about to doze off, when a certain whit rabbit caught my eye.