Past: Wonderland
T he Hatter didn’t come that day, nor did he ever.
The Queen had found the Hatter’s love letters in her sister’s bedroom. All stained with tea and full of nonsensical words that meant nothing to the Queen. Very typical of a nonsensical being like the Hatter. The Queen of Hearts had never understood why everyone loved him so much. Especially the March Hare, who was as mad and stupid and as naive as the Hatter.
The sister found the Queen’s guard surrounding her in the middle of the garden. Panicking, she asked about the Hatter, but she was too late. The Queen had let her Bandersnatch beast hunt him down outside.
Wriggling and crying and protesting didn’t help. The guards chained the sister and forced her to her knees. The Queen showed her that she had caught the Hatter and was about to torture him. That was when the first Mush Room instrument had been invented. The Queen had just discovered the fun side of electricity. She realized it had a greater purpose than bringing light out into the world. Electricity could, in fact, fry someone’s brains, which was better than chopping it off. Much, much fun.
The little sister couldn’t take it. She promised to do anything so the Queen of Hearts would let the Hatter go. The Queen smirked. Her plan had worked. Now her little sister would eat the mushroom willingly.
And she finally summoned to it and ate it.
A week later she got engaged to the Pillar… willingly… or mushroomy, or nonsensically. Whichever way you want to put it.