Once Upon A Now: Alice Through The Selfie-Cam

Madness

Alice had followed the Tweedle twins for some time now when they came to a stop. A large hedge stood before them.

"What now?" Alice asked.

"You must go through the maze to find the castle," informed Tweedle-deena.

"Don't get lost," Tweedledum-Ella said a little too cheerful for Alice's liking.

Alice looked into the maze entrance, first to her left then to her right. "Which way first?" Alice asked turning to face the twins, but they were nowhere in sight.

"I guess I'll go left since Tweedle-deena was the left twin and was the nicest." Alice decided as she went left.

That was followed by a right turn, then another right, and then a left. After switching between left and right and ending up in a few dead-ends, Alice sat at a bench between two crossings.

"I'm lost again," Alice pouted, "If only I had that mushroom, I could grow taller than this maze and just walk right over it and make my way to the castle."

"That takes all the fun of the maze, don't ya think?" a voice laughed.

"It's no fun when you're lost," argued Alice looking up waiting to match the voice to a face. Alice seen nothing but the hedges of the maze.

"It's no fun when you cheat either," the voice now came from behind Alice. Alice turned around to come face to face with a large striped cat with glowing eyes and a wide smile with a great deal of teeth.

"You're a cat!" Alice shouted amused.

"Cheshire Cat to be exact," the cat sat up.

"Cheshire Cat, would you please tell me, which way I should go from here?"

"That depends on where you want to get to," replied that cat disappearing from behind and reappearing in front of Alice.

"I'm trying to get to the queen," Alice stated, watching the cat as he walked along the hedges.

"Had you made the 'right' choice when you first entered the maze, you would have walked straight down to the castle, but seeing that you're here, you went the wrong way when you went left," the Cheshire Cat teased Alice smiling from ear to ear.

"Of course, only so much can go left before it goes right," Alice remarked.

"From here you can go that way," the Cheshire Cat waved his paw to the right.

"That's a dead end," Alice walked halfway.

"Or was it that way," continued the cat now circling his paw to the left.

"I just want to get away from the madness, I don't want to go among anymore mad people," Alice said more to herself than the Cheshire Cat.

"Oh, you can't help that," replied the cat as he now walked near Alice's feet. "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."

"How do you know I'm mad?" asked Alice.

The Cheshire Cat was now back upon a hedge as he grinned wide.

"You must be, or you wouldn't have come here." the Cheshire Cat began to vanish ever so slowly, starting with the tail and ending till it reached his grin. His grin remained for some time before it disappeared along with the cat.

"I can't wait to get home," Alice mumbled to herself heading left as the cat directed.