Through Glass: An Alice in Wonderland retelling by J. A. Armitage & J. A. Culican

Author:J. A. Armitage & J. A. Culican [Armitage, J. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanted Quill Press
Published: 2022-06-06T05:00:00+00:00

15

“I don’t like this,” Hatter said. “Something is off. Don’t you feel it?”

I was still reeling from the best kiss I’d ever had. Everything felt off-kilter but in a good way. My senses were still tingling, and my body hadn’t righted itself yet.

“Maybe we should go and see where we are? Maybe we are in a time near to our own?” If I couldn’t have 2021, I’d take 2020 or 2022 if that was possible after the smashed mirror. Anything to get back to my mother.

“Ok,” Hatter conceded, “But the first time I see something strange, we are coming back here and going back through the mirror.”

I didn’t want to ask what, to his mind, constituted strange.

“Deal.”

He kept my hand in his as we slowly walked through the house and then down to the main floor.

I’d not paid much attention to what it looked like in 1852. I’d been too busy either trying to get to the mirror or escaping out of it when I first arrived.

It looked like I remembered it. No electricity, I saw. Dismay flooded through me.

“This isn’t the right time,” I said, pointing to the candle holders on the wall. “Maybe we should go back. No point checking this place out more.”

“Strangers!” a voice bellowed, echoing up the corridor. “Strangers in the house! Off with their heads!”

Hatter’s grip strengthened on my hand, but it was too late. Men with red hearts embroidered on their top pockets came out of nowhere and tore us apart.

“Let us go!” I yelled, kicking out at the man holding me. Mrs. Heart appeared. She looked strange in a black and red dress with a golden crown on her head and bright red painted lips.

“What do you want us to do with them?” The man holding me asked.

Mrs. Heart looked Hatter up and down before turning her beady eyes to me.

Anger surged through me as she appraised me.

“Throw them in different rooms and make sure the doors are locked. I have some ideas about what I’d like to do with them, but I’d like to think on it first.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

Hatter fought against his captors as I was dragged away from him. Where I had only one man holding me, he had three.

I was taken to a small room on the main floor. Just as Mrs. Heart had asked, the door was closed behind me, and a second later, I heard a key turn in the lock.

The room was nothing special. It was decorated in the same style as the rest of the house, with flowery wallpaper and no furniture, but the window had metal bars on the other side. I’d not seen bars on the windows in 1852, nor in 2021, but whatever time this was, they were here now.

Guilt gnawed at me. Hatter had told me that weird things could happen if I went through the mirror, but I hadn’t listened.

What was worse, I’d made him come through with me. Sure it had been his choice to follow me, but if I hadn’t gone through in the first place, he’d have no reason to come through.

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