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Meanwhile

MEETING HALL, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, LONDON

D r. Tom Truckle watched the Queen’s video with intent. It was hard to predict where this was going, but the crowd around him was shocked.

It seemed strange for a man like him to sympathize with the mad, but he did—at least momentarily.

He kept watching the video, eagerly wanting to know what the Queen had in mind. What kind of revenge was she talking about? How did the mad have their revenge?

The video he was watching detailed what had happened to the Queen and Wonderlanders in the circus. The torture, the humiliation, and the human race’s fear of what was different or new to them.

Even Tom, a man who rarely sympathized with the insane, hated his own kind for the few moments he watched what had happened to the Wonderlanders.