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with a flick of her finger.
    “Ow! That hurt!”
    Alice wanted to use the hallucinations to bring up terror in the Butterfly’s mind whenever she even thought of bullying the Caterpillar. “Listen up, you wench! From now on, you’re gonna leave the Caterpillar alone, got it? For I am a demon, I am Satan incarnate, I shall hunt you down and defile you!” Alice didn’t actually understand what any of those words meant, but she’d read a story once where they were used to great effect.
    “But he’s a loser,” she muttered, her voice trembling with fright.
    “I don’t care! He’s my friend! And from now on, you stay far away from him! You don’t speak to him, you don’t look at him, you got it?!”
    “Okay, okay,” she whimpered.
    “And if you do, I’ll cut you…and…I’ll tear your soul apart!” She made guttural demonic noises while sticking two fingers up behind her head like devil’s horns. “Blehhhahaha I am a demon from hell… Leave him alone! Got it?!”
    “Ye-yes… I shall never even talk to him again! Please don’t tear my soul apart,” she whimpered.
    Alice knew the spice would be wearing off soon. She looked longingly at the Mary Janes behind the Black Butterfly. “Do you mind if I take the goody two-shoes? They don’t fit you anyway.”
    “Mind? Heck no! Please take them! They have a hold on me, a magical hold, that causes me to obsess over them! Oh, it shall be a good day if you take them away. Let their goody goody power infest you. ”
    Alice arched a brow. “You don’t like goody goodiness?”
    “Absolutely not. So if you want them, please take them.”
    “Thank you. I shall.”
    It was a bit tricky getting the shoes out of the tree nook. She had to nibble just a tiny bit of mushroom to grow a little bit so she could pick the shoes up and toss them out to the ground below. She scurried out of the nook, then nibbled some more to grow even larger, then climbed down the tree.
    The shoes were adult-sized, whereas she was only 7, so she used a little trick to make the shoes fit—she nibbled enough mushroom to make herself slightly large than usual, so the shoes would fit, then she put them on and shrunk herself to normal sized again. The shoes shrunk along with her.
    Voila! Now she had two goody two-shoes to wear.
    She looked forward to following rules and being a right and proper little girl who always did the appropriate thing. The shoes glowed bright for a while then their glow disappeared, but she could still feel their magical goody energy going up her through her toesies.
    She caught the Black Butterfly cautiously peeking out the nook. Alice scowled and used two fingers to point at her own eyes, then the Butterfly’s.
    She left her old shoes behind, then in order to break in her new goody two-shoes, she skipped all the way to the Caterpillar’s mushroom.
    “You’re late!” boomed the Caterpillar after she had shrunk down to his size.
    She couldn’t stop smiling. “I’m sorry. I had a matter to attend to.”
    “What are you grinning about?”
    Alice began climbing up the mushroom.
    The Caterpillar said, “I’ve got a bunch of new spices I’d like to try on you.”
    Alice was next to him now. She admired the scowl on his face. This was her Caterpillar, and he wouldn’t be bullied anymore.
    “Why are you looking at me like that, silly girl?”
    “I’m just glad that you’re you!” She wrapped her arms around him and planted a big kiss on his cheek.
    He squirmed. “Ugh! Get off of me! We’ve got to test these spices.”
    So Alice let go of him and stared at him with a big dopey grin until he asked her to stop.

 
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER FOUR
    The Red Queen
     
    When Alice was 10

    The Red Queen hovered in the air inside the small dungeon room. As usual, her legs were racing back and forth as she ran, but she remained in the same place. She’d supposedly been “captured” by the Tweedle twins, but the fact of the matter was that she herself had called