Tea Party Conversations
On this fair day, the Queen seemed especially cross. "Off with his head!" She was yelling at anyone, for any reason at all.
Though she knew the number of Card Soldiers would remain the same no matter how many the Queen chose to behead, Alice still observed the Queens' downturned lips and perpetual frown with a measure of trepidation.
"How can she so easily bestow something so vile, like it's entertainment?" Alice couldn't help herself, for there were a great many things she had realised she did not understand after falling down this loony parade of a rabbit hole.
The Hatter turned to Alice and said slowly, but not unkindly, "Dear Alice, Death is anything but vile. You haven't met him yet, he is a rather agreeable fellow, actually." Alices' eyes went wide at the implication of the statement, "You don't surely mean- that you've met him?"
A hearty laugh rumbled in the Hatter's chest and he replied, "Eccentric fellow, rather fond of disguises he is; comes on many ways in many days to tease me- as if I don't already recognise him after the first time!"
Alice felt a little better for the poor soldiers' fates after the Hatter's reassurance though her opinion of the Queen did not improve. "She's always upset angry at one thing or another. Shouldn't she conduct herself appropriately instead of taking that anger to her poor subjects?"
"What conduct would be appropriate"? inquired the Rabbit, for in this land he had never seen another Queen.
"Oh I don't know," mused Alice, "perhaps by not getting upset so often?"
The Hatter interjected now, "How does one tell oneself to not anger when once has already been angered?"
"I admit that is a rather difficult thing- though something I could expect of someone befitting of a Queen."
"Do the Queens in your country not take to anger, Alice?"
Alice tried to recall what she had heard of Queens the best she could. She did not want her new companions to know that she had never actually met a Queen before then, lest they thought less of her opinions. Anyhow, people have written stories of Kings and Queens since time immemorable and she was sure at least some of those people who wrote such stories had, at some point in time, actually met a Queen.
"I suppose everyone gets cross from time to time," Alice began carefully, "but kind Queens do not let that change the way they rule. Yes, good Queens are always kind. Just because she is angry doesn't mean she will just lop off someone's head."
"It is not easy being a Queen in your country, Alice," said the Rabbit.
Though she knew the number of Card Soldiers would remain the same no matter how many the Queen chose to behead, Alice still observed the Queens' downturned lips and perpetual frown with a measure of trepidation.
"How can she so easily bestow something so vile, like it's entertainment?" Alice couldn't help herself, for there were a great many things she had realised she did not understand after falling down this loony parade of a rabbit hole.
The Hatter turned to Alice and said slowly, but not unkindly, "Dear Alice, Death is anything but vile. You haven't met him yet, he is a rather agreeable fellow, actually." Alices' eyes went wide at the implication of the statement, "You don't surely mean- that you've met him?"
A hearty laugh rumbled in the Hatter's chest and he replied, "Eccentric fellow, rather fond of disguises he is; comes on many ways in many days to tease me- as if I don't already recognise him after the first time!"
Alice felt a little better for the poor soldiers' fates after the Hatter's reassurance though her opinion of the Queen did not improve. "She's always upset angry at one thing or another. Shouldn't she conduct herself appropriately instead of taking that anger to her poor subjects?"
"What conduct would be appropriate"? inquired the Rabbit, for in this land he had never seen another Queen.
"Oh I don't know," mused Alice, "perhaps by not getting upset so often?"
The Hatter interjected now, "How does one tell oneself to not anger when once has already been angered?"
"I admit that is a rather difficult thing- though something I could expect of someone befitting of a Queen."
"Do the Queens in your country not take to anger, Alice?"
Alice tried to recall what she had heard of Queens the best she could. She did not want her new companions to know that she had never actually met a Queen before then, lest they thought less of her opinions. Anyhow, people have written stories of Kings and Queens since time immemorable and she was sure at least some of those people who wrote such stories had, at some point in time, actually met a Queen.
"I suppose everyone gets cross from time to time," Alice began carefully, "but kind Queens do not let that change the way they rule. Yes, good Queens are always kind. Just because she is angry doesn't mean she will just lop off someone's head."
"It is not easy being a Queen in your country, Alice," said the Rabbit.