“My my ‘Alice’ quite an eventful time in Wonderland you’ve had so far and yet here you are on my doorstep.”

The Red Queen says this with a hint of gloating as she looks at ‘Alice’ from where she sits at the head of the table. Her associates, the cards, surround her on both sides.

“What is it you want from me dear ‘Alice’? Riches? Someone to lose their head?”

The Queen’s pink eyes sparkle greedily with the possibilities