Alice

Chapter six

Alice then says to the Queen "I was expecting someone else!" The Queen says "You don't know your own mind!" Alice remarks "It's nearly a complete stranger!" The Queen says "What you claim not to know is merely what you've denied. You've recaptured your vagrant memories: what are you doing with them?! You once rejected my attempts to control our lives forcefully, but now you've allowed another to succeed in my role!" Alice is confused but recalls this same conversation before and says "I won't miss your tentacles." The Queen infuriated says "You'd prefer the hot stinking breath and unyielding attentions of a potent, unreasoning, unfeeling hellraiser?! I don't think so!" Alice asks "Can you give me more than a warning? Caterpillar said you might help!" The Queen asks "I'd need a better reason to respond than what's currently on offer!" Alice says "If you don't, we're all doomed!" The Queen says "Not doomed. Forgotten! I may survive here, but you're finished! You see the pattern of destruction, I know you do! The train is trying to destroy all evidence of your past and especially the fire. Now, who would want that? Who benefits from your madness?!" Alice confused asks "The destruction of Wonderland... is the destruction of me?!" The Queen says "Indeed! And vice versa!" Alice says "I've set it in motion, I can derail it. This is good for me! I'm not insane! I didn't kill my family. I am fine. I'm not mad, I'm innocent - I mean, not guilty! [sees the tentacles wrapping around her] What's happening, what are you doing?!" The Queen then says "The train must be stopped, but there's more to do. Your view conceals a tragedy. The whole truth you 'claim' to seek eludes you because you won't look at what's around you! [swallows Alice; Inside Alice's memories] There is no method in this madness!"