if she tried to run, she'd end up going so slow that she'd eventually stop. Terrified, she didn't think to.....
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if she tried to run, she'd end up going so slow that she'd eventually stop. Terrified, she didn't think to.....
to walk as slow as she could backwards and in the process, move forward with all the speed of a thousand peregrin falcons diving out of the daylit sky...
Alice could not control the swiftness of foot in this strange backwards-forwards movement, and plunged right into a long long table, set up for quite a few guests. At the head of the table was a very unusual little .....
...she squinted, trying to clear her vision. This forward-backward movement was making her feel a little queasy. Then she realised it was all back to front! The mirror had reconstructed itself. This was not reality it was reflection! The little thing at the end of the table was being telescopicaly miniaturised. Like looking down the wrong end of a telescope. This was excellent news... or no, was this 'little thing' then huge?
"blurggg" Alice thought. Huge was in fact, an understatement to describe the behemoth at the end of the table. Alice wondered just what she was going to do, and then she remembered a song by a band whose members hadn't been born yet....so she rooted around in her pinafore pocket for that one "get larger" pill she knew she had left.
And slowly she saw herself getting larger, her fingers one by one became twice their regular size, then three times then four times and and as the rest of her body started to fall in line with her hands she remembered her dress, if her mother found one of her dresses ripped again, she would be 50 before she was allowed to leave her room again.
Quickly she started to remove her dress, socks, shoes just in time. Underwear was the last, but by then it was too late, she was ten times her regular size and the underwear ripped at the seams, it sort of exploded really, she looked down and though. "oh well"
Everyone else politely looked away as Alice suddenly realized.....
that she had become a 20 foot naked giant. Nevertheless there was work to be done, and the sooner the better.
She picked up her discarded garments with her finger tips and put them up on a safe place.
But she was in between a rock and a hard place. She couldn't let people look at her but what could she do? Thinking quickly, she....
Removed the table cloth from the already messy table, creating a wet icky mess on the floor, the cloth was barely enough to cover the essentials, but it would have to do.
She looked around for a way to to move out of this strange turn of events.
...she stood there; a 20 foot naked giantess. Thinking quickly had never gotten anyone dressed. But height has its advantages and Alice never one to miss an opportunity tried out her newly elongated vocal chords. Impressive, a little gravelly even... Inhaling to the full extent of her, let's face it, enormous lungs, Alice let rip!...
A bloody scream. Followed by a less ripping "Listen" , she would have said, shut up, but mom told her that was not a polite way to get anyone attention.
Everybody stopped, and looked at her expectantly, they all fell small and insignificant, but strangely unafraid.
She looked down at everybody and started to laugh at the silliness of the situation.
"listen everyone, we have to leave now!!!"
"Why?" said the Queen of Hearts,"
"y'know, you're right" said Alice. "Enjoy your meal, and I wish you all a very good evening, especially to your majesty who shall hence forth be refered to as the Queen of Hearts and also my very best wishes to your distinguished guests. Oh, I see the Jabberwock made it, he's stuffed already, so just give him a starter."
Alice swished the goo covered table-cloth around her, did a little curtsey as per instructions of the Red Queen who had put her straight on the time/continum theorum.
Alice was tired of being 20 foot tall, she was after all only 8 years old and should be 4' 4" tall. Where was it? She slipped the tiny blue pill down her enourmous throat and blinked. Yes, that's better she thought. She found her clothes and wiping the gooey mess of the tablecover away dressed herself. Right in front of her the looking glass was doing the little swirly things again. Rather than poke her finger into the mirror, this time she said, "hello mirror". "Hello, yourself" said the looking glass [cooley]. "May I step through you?" said Alice, "Feel free". said the looking glass. And so Alice did just that... the world on the 'other side'...
seemed rather dull and drab in comparision. "What to do now, I wonder" said Alice to herself. "Who are you talking to" a small voice replied. Alice looked around, a bit timidly truth be known. Can we blame her? She had been through quite a lot, don't you think?
She wondered who the small voice belonged to and suddenly it was revealed to her that...
...the little voice was from Cerberus I. One of the heads of the three-headed dog was whispering, so as not to wake the other two. "Can I be of help?" Cerberus I inquired. "Well", said Alice, "I am a bit lost"... Cerberus I moved his large fluffy head closer to Alice. Could you tickle my ears please, he asked, in a most appealing manner? Of course said Alice, where would be best? He inclined his head forward, and Alice being a delightful girl gave Cerberus I's ears a very good tickle. Once pleasantaries had been completed, Alice asked the important question. "Cerberus I, what is this place. Where am I?" Cerberus I looked at her, sucked in a double-nostril full of breath and said, "Well, little lady, you are in Hades". "Aahaa" said Alice... as she dipped her toes into the river Styxx...