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Polo chirped a meow as he stood on his back legs on Ehh's shoulder to see over the crowd.

"Calm down Polo, is it really all that exciting for a cat like you?" She asked, glaring at him.

In reponse he just sat back down on her shoulder with a cough, not making eye contact.

Indya vanished and re-appreared in a tree above the crowd where it was less crowded. Licking her lips she grinned and listened to the kind 's speech

Nana was in the main laundering room of the palace when the news came.

A young squire-- he seemed to fancy Nana, but by the Queen, the King, and the Caterpillar himself she could not remember his name-- came rushing in, skidding to a halt amid the shrieking, squealing maids, panting and gasping for breath. "The Queen..." he said, and could manage no more for a few moments, desperately sucking in precious air as if it were the only good air left in the whole world.

"What is it? What about the Queen?" the girls prodded, all wide-eyed and staring. "What happened to the Queen?"

"The Queen...." he said again. "...She's been murdered!"

And he promptly collapsed onto the floor.


As she knelt down beside the squire, putting cold rags on his face and trying to ignore the terrified but excited chatter of the rest of the maids, the only thing that Nana could think was, "Oh dear, oh dear, I hope she didn't die from the wine I got her!"

After it was clear that trying to wake up the squire was a lost cause for the moment, Nana left him on a pile of laundry and went outside, where all the people of Wonderland were gathering, apparently waiting for something to happen. None of them seemed particularly concerned over the death of the Queen, but Nana wasn't one to judge.

"Excuse me," she asked of a young woman who looked extremely bored and clearly wanted to be doing something else. "What is happening here?"

"We're waiting for the King of Hearts to make his speech and tell us who's going to rule wonderland now that the queen's gone" She twitched her tail as she spoke "you might as well get comfortable , it might be a while before he begins"

Trinket was wandering lazily up the red and black brick road to the castle gates, making sure not to step on any of the cracks between bricks and pausing occasionaly to sniff one of the red roses on the neatly pruned bushes that lined the edges. she had just bent down to sniff a particularly large (almost as large as her head) and fragrant rose when she was tapped on the shoulder. She lost her balance a fell face first into the rosebush and when she emerged her face was entirely covered in crimson paint that mached perfectly the glowing cromson of her pain-struck eyes. she turned to speak to the person that had tapped her and was surprised to see that it was a rather startled looking six of spades.
"Yeh shouldn't want to be seen here, ma'am." he said sheepishly.
"why not?" she queried as she attempted to wipe the paint from her face.
"Well yeh see," he replied "this is where it happened...or where her majesty was found anyways..."
trinket was silent.
"come," said the spade softly. "I'll show yeh t' th' courtyard.
she followed hurridly, and emerged a second later in the most crowded, noisy space she had ever seen. the walls of the courtyard were lined with spectators and the sky was thick with what trinket thought must be all of the flying creatures in wonderland.
she had just made herself comfortable on an upturned bucket whe the king began to speak and everyone around her rose to their feet. she rose as well but had no hope of seeing over the crowd so instead she took to peeking through it but could not make out the king through the myriad of elbows and waists that were at her eyelevel.

"Oh dear! Did her cards find her?"

((Man, I am loving the new collectible!))

"This probably sounds rather selfish of me, but I'm worried about where I will go. I served the Queen and only Her Majesty, and now I've nothing to do! I certainly don't want to go back to the Guardians."