Spider33d
Spin off to A Smile in the Margin: An Ever After High story.
Some worlds are entered.
Others are answered.
When Rowan steps beyond the familiar edges of Wonderland, he doesn't fall-he reflects.
Underland is not the place of tea and teasing he remembers. It is darker, sharper, and far more honest. A realm where thoughts linger too long, where stories don't chase you but wait, and where every step asks who you are when no one is telling you who to be.
He is not alone.
Kitty Cheshire follows-unseen, playful, and fiercely herself-choosing to remain invisible, her presence marked only by a floating smile and lips that speak truths more clearly than faces ever could. Beside her drifts the Cheshire Cat, older and quieter, her laughter carrying the weight of a thousand reflections.
As Rowan journeys deeper into Underland, he meets its strange inhabitants-guides who speak in riddles, queens who rule through imbalance, and creatures who dissolve and reform as easily as thoughts. Among them waits the Red Queen, watching, calculating, determined to claim what this world believes Rowan might become.
But Underland is not a prophecy.
It is a mirror.
And as the reflection grows clearer, Rowan must decide what he carries with him, what he leaves behind, and whether love-unseen, unspoken, and unclaimed-can remain steady in a world that demands definition.