I just saw Alice in Wonderland the play at the Vista Theater so I wanted to write something kinda like it.

Day One...

Chapter one...

Lily lived in Mind. Her grandmother live in Gap. The land between these two little lands was the mysterious and frightful lad of The.

“But Mother! I don’t want to go to Ladies’ School! I will not!” Lily cried one morning in early August. She was wearing her lovely green dress and the beautiful emerald mary jane’s. She had on black stockings and her black hair was kept back by a emerald green bow.

“I don’t care. You are going to that school as I did and your grandmother before you and her mother and her mother’s mother and her mother’s mother’s mother and her mother’s mother’s mother’s mother!” Lily’s mother, Emily yelled as she gave her the bottomless basket that had all her belongings in.

“But, mother. I can marry a rich Mine Owner and I won’t have to have an education! I’ll be rich!” Lily yelled at her mother as her mother grabbed Lily’s upper arm and brought her out onto the front porch of their tiny house they lived in. Lily’s father was an Emerald Miner seeing as that’s what Mind was famous for. Their Emeralds.

“You know no self respecting Mine Owner would even look at you! Let alone marry you,” Emily yelled as she shoved her daughter down the short walk to the gate. She slammed the green picket fence gate in front of Lily and said, “You’re grandmother will be waiting for you at her house in Gap. Be careful in The. Whatever you do, stay away from the The!” her mother yelled as Lily started down the hill towards the huge, wrought iron gates of the land of The. They wern’t that far off, only a mile. And she had many miles to go to get to Gap.

She had heard stories of the land of The. She didn’t know exactly what sort of creatures lived there. Certainly not a dog or cat in any normal sort.

“Where you off to, Miss Lily?”

“I’m leaving to go to Ladies’ School in Gap.” she said to Tom, the friendly miner who worked with her father.

“Are you going through The.” he asked worriedly.

“Yes.” she said as she kept walking.

“Ooooh... watch out for the The!” he yelled and ran off as the work bell was ringing and the miners were going back down into the mine after disregarding their almost eaten pasties.

“Hum... I wonder what this The is?” she wondered to herself as she continued to walk.

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Lily reached the giant wrought iron gates after an hour of walking.

“WHO GOES THERE!?” somebody yelled in a huge booming voice.

“Um... where are you?” she asked, looking around.

“UP HERE, YOU DUNCE NIT!” he yelled again and Lily looked straight up.

“I’m no nit!” she yelled at him.

“WHO CARES!? WHAT DO YOU WANT!?” he asked in a yell of impatience.

“I need to go through The to get to Gap. Is that alright?” she asked.

He was silent for several minutes. “Is it ok?” she asked again.

“I GUESS IF YOU WANT TO GET EATEN!” he said and starteda maniacal laughter and opened the gate to better reveal what looked like a very dense jungle. Running right through it at the very point where the gates stood closed was a path made of entire bricks of pure emerald. At times it was hard to see being so dark a green and the foliage being almost the same colour.

Lily stepped in cautiously and slowly and a after a few steps in, the gates slammed shut and heavy locks with chains wrapped around the two bars that were right next to each other that were the two different gates.

She moved into the forest more and it became nighttime. She looked up and saw stars in the sky.

“This is impossible, it’s 1:30 in the afternoon!” Lily said to herself.

“NEWBIE! NEWBIE! EIBWEN!”

“Excuse me, but what is Eibwen?” Lily asked to the voice.

“It’s NEWBIE backwards.” the voice said as it came closer to her.

“Who... who are you?”

“I’m Jack. You?” a boy asked, appearing right in front of Lily. Lily screamed in surprise.

“Where did you come from?”

“Well, when a man loves a woman very very much, they-”

“I’M NOT THAT STUPID! I know that part!” she yelled. Jack stood there smiling politely. “I ment where were you? You just sort of... popped out of nowhere!” Lily yelled, waving her arms about as if to point out nowhere.

“I was here. You see, I’m a Zac.”

“A... a Zac? I’m afraid I don’t know what that is?”

“I’m a Zac, said to be the most annoying thing on God’s green earth!” Jack said proudly.

“Well, Jack. I’m Lily.”

“You don’t look like a flower.” Jack said, eyeing her.

“Well, I’m not a flower!” Lily cried. “I’m a human!”

“Who wants to be a human?” Jack asked, a disgusted look on his face.

“Well, I don’t know. Who would want to be a Zac?”

“Good point.” he said and disappeared.

“WAIT! Wait!” Lily called.

“Yes?” Jack asked from a thick tree branch.

“Could you help me through The?” Lily asked as Jack jumped down.

“I suppose. You have anything to eat in that basket of yours?” he asked, sniffing it with his rather large nose. Jack looked like a normal human but had dark blue skin. He had sandy hair and was wearing baggy shorts and a dirty and ragged looking brown shirt. He had orange eyes and a large nose and looked almost like a ten-year-old boy. Lily was 12.

“I do, but only enough for three meals for three more days. None for snacking.” she said as she set off on a brisk walk down the path of emeralds.

Jack looked after her and sped up to walk besides her.

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The end of day one... I guess.

A very short day, I suppose, but the days will grow longer when she starts meeting the various things in The...

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