First chapter. "Elizabeth`s first day of studing"
(Behind the scenes)
My name is Elizabeth Katherine Roide. I was seventeen years old. We had to leave Ireland from-by noise, for my education in Oxford Colledge. My friends stayed there, I miss them. I still communicate with my last school friend Lisa Jones so far. We lived in the same area, were, we remain friends, even at a great distance. I live in London, near Hyde Park. On my first day of study, Alice Roide said that her watch broke, and asked me to go to "The shop of repair watches and clocks", of my grandmother`s old friend Edward Timberg. When I came to him, I noticed such a large amount of mechanical products that I had never seen before. - Hello. You, apparently, Alice's granddaughter? I am very happy to meet you. Did you want something? - he spoke. - Yes, my grandmother said, that you are fixing your watch well. The fact is that her old was broke. - It's okay, I have to fix this trinket. I stood and watched, how the work in the hands of the master was going on quickly. - Good. You have no customers? - It is, as you can see ... Everyone now uses an electronic clock, and I'm used to gears. Sometimes people come to me to fix old ones, watch, but it is extremely rare. - With such a collection you can become a junkie or a wizard. - It's not just some rusty, things that have become dull from time, like moldy books, and something else. I could look at this magic forever, but to my surprise, mr. Timeberg, after a minute, finished the job, put off the instrument and handed me a watch. - Do you have time for cleaning, restoring order, cleaning all the details? - Yes, we must follow the events here!
(After those adventure)
Fiona Waterloo, as the teacher of musical lessons and the head of the creative circle, said me: "Your talent for music is awesome". She offered me to participate in the festival "The day of flowers". I agreed. But headmistress and professor of West literature, Amanda Redhem, heard about it, and broken off the mrs. Waterloo`s sentenses, and decided to: Violet Lloyd will song for place me. Order Director`s are the law for everyone, including me. Of course, I did everything I could to achieve my goal. I had to calmly ask the headmistress to organize a mini-hearing. There was a guy in room 32, who played Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Symphony well on the harpsichord.
Second chapter. "My lessons"
The impression of listening to the song exceeded all expectations, and I was somehow scared: "What will happen, if I do not beat his record? If I play a melody, at least part of the work, but bad, or sing a song not to the notes and not to the beat?" Naturally, on my attempts to worry and be nervous nobody paid attention. Miss Redhem present there complimented me and said that he will gladly enroll in the group of young talents of Oxford.
Chemistry we were taught by John Bedhead. But we can be happy for the fact that use for good. In the beginning, he gave us leaflets with tasks, drafts, textbooks, markers, flasks, test tubes, reagents, chemical devices. We did it. Mark and Lisa Hamish go to school with me. They are fun and funny, very similar to the Tweedledee and Tweedledum. I always have fun and play with them. I will not list what happened. There is no logic in not explainable. At first it seems so bright, warm, Sunny, family, then this is changed, it turns absurd, the former goes away. I am left alone with my thoughts, sorting through the memories, ask relatives, friends, known. They are not able to absent from the body of the man came somewhat obscure highlights: chilling steam, a pool of blood, fear, shame and anger. I frightened. Here, at least, I managed to convey those feelings, what happened at that hour, silent and meaningless. I hope all our people stay alive. Memories moved to the background in connection with the lessons. You can miss the summer days, when it was a serene state, in which was and dreamed of the impossible. - Look. Here is the one we are waiting for! - cried out, rising from the chair Hatter, - Sit down, drink hot tea. Now Cheshire must arrive. - Are you waiting for me? - I heard a voice. I looked at it. It was Mr. Cheshkurston - a magician who gave a presentation at our school. - Elizabeth, I am very glad to see you. Astral is a place, where I can be myself, not a man, as like just grey cat. - I know. But I did not think that you really ... - What I can be the cat?! - he interrupted. - This is a formality! I and everyone else should have saved you. - Mr. Bledheim? Suddenly there was a voice behind my back. It turned out to be a man whom I had seen before, but could not recognize him. - And the most important thing is that miss Redhem`s mechanical dolls. I somehow managed to stop her! - asked the Donald Frank, the professor of sewing.
Third chapter. "Wonder capture"
- She's barely living. I do everything in my power. - What happened? - I asked. - It's too early for you to know. But I will say one thing, dear: you are our hope. I heard the hoof noise. It was an Walter Berrow`s army. - Run! This is Jack. If we are caught, then we can not see our heads! - with fear said Hare. - Elizabeth, Henry, and Fiona - all follow me! The rest should confuse them... - said Bedhead. I was scared, but did not file a mind. We ran through the forest. Horses gone behind us. We carried the unknown where. Suddenly, we were at the pit. - Jump! - shouted Bedhead. Taking a deep breath and closing my eyes, I jumped. For me, the rest dived into darkness. From above came the explosion. I do not know how much I fell, but I remember that I fell on the mattress. I quickly moved away and did it just as the heap was small. - And so, we are in a dark tunnel. What should we do? - said the Henry, shaking off dust from his cylinder. - This is an old iron mine. If we go along the path, then we can be at the factories ... - said Fiona Waterloo. - Hold the lantern! There is a long road ahead... - said the Bengalius Cheshkerstone from nowhere. We went forward, not knowing what awaits us, through the abandoned mine. The feeling of fear was not only mine; the others were also afraid of losing their heads. Soon I saw the moonlight. - This is the way out! - said the Bedhead and added to the move. We were at some building. The mechanisms that were scattered, traces of fire and body maps hinted that there was a battle. - Where are we? - I asked. - In an old factory. We managed to win her back with the help of Jaberwocky. It was awful ... - said the Henry. - Jack also participated, but we thought he was dead. But the Amanda Ridhem patched him ... - added the Bedhead. - I do not understand anything. What happened here? - I asked. Fiona gently began his story. - Alice proved that with the help of mirrors you can be in another world. For a long time, the Lady of Hearts was carrying out a plan of revenge for the fact that Alice broke into the country of Miracles and prevented her from seizing power. L.R.H. learned how to do it. Jack stole the Bedhead’s drawings. Factories began to be built, maps went to work in the mines. And Jack began to abduct from your world children who had a rich imagination. The first robots helped to take power from White. But Wonderland also began to suffer. The smoke of the factories poisoned the air and the plants, and if the portal was not stopped and the wheel movement was not turned off in the factories, the Wonderland would die. - But dozens more do not stop their work, and still carry a threat hidden from the eyes ... - said the Agatha Shelter, physiologist. - Well, how can I help you? I'm not Alice... - added I. - You are her great-granddaughter and you must help ... - answered Henry Roide. - I do not believe! This is just an ordinary dream! - I said and decided to run away. - Stop, Elizabeth, there can be dangerous! - shouted my father. I began to look for a way out of here and found it. Having run out of the factory, I saw that Valet took me by surprise. He looked scary. The left eye was mechanical. Right hand - e. The rest of the body was covered with burns. - Elizabeth, her red majesty is waiting for you!” - He said, with his metal hand grabbed me and began to pull behind him. I screamed, but everyone realized it too late. "Why did I leave them! How stupid I am ... What should I do now?" - I thought and a tear rolled down my cheek. Walter took me to the kingdom of Redhem. There was not a single human soul. The windows of houses and doors are closed. This place is the darkest of all that I saw. Very soon we were at the palace. Large iron doors were closed. - Open the gate! And livelier! - viciously shouted Walter. The great gate opened immediately. Her garden is faded. After the smoke, beautiful scarlet roses turned black and lifeless. I saw an army of those very robots. In the left side was a red ball. I also saw a portal that looked like a big mirror. One army left, and the other returned with the children. - It turns out that what they told me in the mine is true! - I said to myself.