Malice in Wonderland Prequel by Lotus Rose

Author:Lotus Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Death Pout
Published: 2014-12-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Knight

When Alice was 8

Alice was in her usual place when she wasn’t running her rounds—in her hut, chained to her desk. At that particular moment, she was doodling on a piece of paper a picture of her punching the Cheshire Cat’s floating head, when the door flung open with such a jolt against the wall that Alice shrieked and jumped. And even the guard card, who was usually such a sound sleeper, startled up from his nap. He did so with so much enthusiasm that the chair he sat in toppled over backward.

Alice looked in the doorway to see a knight in gleaming white armor holding a sword.

“White Knight?” she said, recognizing the armor from a previous encounter.

Meanwhile, the guard card was rolling on the floor and moaning. “Owey owey, I banged my head.”

The knight pointed his sword and with his voice muffled behind the armor of his helmet, shouted, “Off with that!” or at least that’s what Alice thought he might have said, muffled as his utterance was.

If the knight had indeed said “off with that!” she could only surmise that he meant the guard card’s head. Perhaps that’s how he hoped to cure the headache!

The guard card’s eyes bugged out as he saw the sword pointed at him. “Uh oh!” He seemed to be looking around for his spear, which had rolled quite a distance away.

As the knight set his sword point down into the ground, Alice was hoping there wouldn’t be a fight, because then she’d be forced to free herself from her chain and reveal her secret lock pick she’d made from one of her hairpins.

The knight took off his helmet. It was indeed the same White Knight Alice had encountered when she’d first come to this magical realm several months ago.

He was an older man with a white floppy mustache. He repeated himself, “I said, ‘sorry about that’. I should have warned you before I made my dramatic entrance, good ol’ chap.”

“Who are you?” the guard card said as he was getting up.

“It’s the White Knight!” Alice said, delighted.

The Knight looked at her. “I much prefer the term Light Knight now. It’s much less limiting, don’t you think?”

“If you say so, Light Knight. So what brings you here? Have you come to rescue me?”

The card had retrieved his weapon at this point. He pointed it at the Knight, but seemed hesitant to interrupt their conversation.

The Light Knight chuckled. “Ah, I would love to rescue you, my little damsel in distress. But rescue you from what?”

Alice lifted the chain in her hands, shrugged her shoulders and bugged her eyes. “Do you not see I am being kept captive? I am a damsel in distress, as you have said, being kept against my will here in Wonderland.”

“Oh, balderdash,” said the Knight. “What little girl wouldn’t want to be in Wonderland? Why it is a magical world of fantasy and imagination!”

Alice scowled. She rattled her chains feebly.

The card meanwhile, shook his spear. “Pardon me. Excuse me. Hate to interrupt…”

The Knight looked at him.

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