Wonder in Underland

Chapter 4

Snow sat down, satisfied with introductions.

"Oh Hatter! Do you have any of that special tea left from the other day?" Snow suddenly asked.

Hatter narrowed his eyes for a moment, contemplating, before his face lit up.

"Yes I do! It's right here!" He exclaimed, proudly whipping a small bottle of light brown liquid out from under his hat.

Snow quickly took it and stood up, walking over to me.

He popped it open and held it up to my lips.

"Here you go, this will help your foot." He said as I opened my mouth cautiously.

He poured a little bit of liquid into my mouth before stopping it closed and gazing intently at me.

I swallowed the liquid. It slid down my throat with a sort of minty tea flavor. It wasn't bad, it was kind of sweet.

After a couple of moments, my foot started feeling fuzzy. But a few more seconds later the fuzziness went away.

I moved my gaze up to Snow's. He gave me a quick nod accompanied by a small smile.

I slowly pushed my chair back up and stood up on both feet.

I didn't feel anything abnormal or hurting from my foot.

I flicked my eyes up to a smiling Hatter before I turned and hesitantly took a step away from the table.

Nothing, not even a wobbly or shaky leg.

I took a few more steps.

This felt amazing! This was amazing!

I twirled around to face Hatter once more.

"Thank you!" I beamed with excitement.

He raised his hand to the brim of his hat and tipped his head down in a sort of nod.

I turned and ran towards the house, fully ecstatic about my healed injury.

It felt awesome to not go hopping around on one foot.

After a couple of moments, I reached the black-and-white door of the large house and turned, racing back to the table in a matter of seconds.

Snow and everyone else was back in their chairs, so I calmed myself down with a few deep breaths and then joined them.

Snow turned and looked around the table.

"Where's Cheshire?" He asked.

Suddenly I felt something tickle my left ear.

I reached a hand up as I turned my head.

Nothing there.

I shrugged and turned back around, when I felt a tickle on my right ear this time.

I whipped my head to the right, but again, found nothing.

I sighed and just concluded it was the wind, when I felt yet another tickle, under my chin this time.