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The current time in Wonderland is April Season. The Amusement Park boasts the season of spring, the season of new birth. The Castle of Hearts allowed the sunshine of the season of summer to come through its windows. The Hatter Mansion enjoyed the crisp air of the autumnal season and the Clock Tower presented the beautiful, white, frosty landscape of winter. Welcome to April Season.
The pearly rays of the sun played with the flowers of the patches of earth in the Amusement Park. The air smelled earthy and dry and drooping plants were now boasting of their new found youth. It was coming of age; but yes in the reverse order. Adjourning the plants were their new neighbors, slick, curly, twirling bougainvillea and spring weeds. They almost looked up to the trees that lined the paths of the Amusement Park, wishing to grow as tall someday. They gyrated with the smooth wind, letting their leaves dance to its tune. In the middle of the Amusement Park laid a young woman with light orange tresses. Her name was Amelia V. Christen.
Dots of sunshine dance through the windows of Heart Castle as the smell of honey suckle flies on the wind. Small animals scurry from hedge to hedge, occasionally sprinting up a tree full of forest green leaves that are caressed by the wind. The vast blue sky over the pink and red castle combined with the rolling green hills in the distance. The horses in the stables were being fed fresh hay that had just been threshed. Birds twittered back and forth in a beautiful song. The courtyard was the same, except for the young man that lay in front of the fountain.
A golden brown carpet of leaves crunch underfoot, tree limbs quiver in gusts of wind, shaggy autumnal decrepitude, disheveled beauty in gold and scarlet. Earthy smell of autumn, air that had the first bite of late autumn, beech trees at the height of their autumnal gold, bathed in the yellow warmth of the autumn sun, air fresh but without a chill. The leaves dance on the breeze, dead but still alive in some instances. Copper leaves fall to the ground that is now scattered in a plethora of colors. Gold, orange, red and brown, they all dance and die as the clouds overlap each other, making the sky a gloomy gray. A young girl lay at the steps of Hatter Mansion.
The naked winter trees line the avenue leading to the Clock Tower. Residentsβ breath rises in visible puffs to join the clouded sky. There is a freezing chill in the air that brings crispness to the leaves, bejeweled with frost, that crunch underfoot. Rosy cheeked, people who visit here pull woolen hats over the reddened ears and tighten scarves over the blue tinged lips. Teeth chatter. The cold seeps into gloves, numbing fingers until they cease to bend properly. Stiffened and frigid, like the cold winter air.
It was a beautiful day out, the birds chirping, the smell of honey suckle riding the wind and straight under Usami the White Rabbit's nose. The girl had been taking a stroll along the outside of the castle, enjoying this change in weather. Suddenly, a terrible feeling sunk into Usami's stomach and the girl checked the glistening golden watch on her wrist. "Ack!" The rabbit seemed to jump twenty feet in the air when she realized what time it was. "I'm late! I'm late! The Queen is going to have my head for this!" Usami began to run, winding her way down from the gardens to the front entrance of the castle. Usami could still smell the honey suckle and see the sun, but she knew that she would long for nature as soon as she stepped into the overly extravagant building that had become her home.
Suddenly out of breath, Usami stopped running and began to walk once the doors were in clear view, but a twist of her footing led the rabbit girl face first into the ground. It never failed, no matter how much walking she did or how much practice she had, Usami nearly always fell. This was a particularly hard spill, however, and the poor girl's nose began to bleed. "Ow, ow, ow!" She trilled hoping that this wouldn't last long. Her hair began to sparkle and slowly faded from pink to blue; it did that from time to time and along with her hair, her rabbit ears and tail changed color as well.
Usami hobbled over to the fountain to check out the damage and gazed at her reflection. Scrapped cheek, bleeding nose, but otherwise she was totally presentable. Usami was just glad her chakrams hadn't come loose and hurt someone. She was going to leave; Usami was going to head straight for the inside when something caught her attention. A tuft of white fluffy stuff poking out from the other side of the concrete structure. Plugging her bleeding nose with one hand, Usami tiptoed over to the tuft that slowly gave way to a body, her sparkling blue eyes widened in alarm and Usami took a step back, managing to fall on her butt and scrape her palms. Usami screamed, scrambling away in a backwards direction and then bolting inside, but realized that she couldn't possibly go into the throne room in such a disastrous state.
So Usami headed to her room in order to compose herself and wash the blood away. The body was probably one of those dummies that belonged to the Knight of Hearts, yes, that was it, a simple dummy. Definitely not a dead body.
Usami rinsed the blood from her face and changed her skirt that now had a hole in it, she wrapped her palms as well before finally heading downstairs, mentally preparing herself for the screaming battle to come. "I know I'm late!" Usami started as soon as she walked in, "but there's a reason to it! I was in the garden and then I looked at my watch and realized what time it was so I started heading back and I tripped and fell on my face and my nose started bleeding, then I saw a dead body in front of the fountain and I fell again and my skirt ripped and I screamed and ran back inside and knew I couldn't come in here looking like that so-so I went to change and now I'm here!" She took a breath as she finished and bowed to the Queen of Hearts, hoping she didn't offend the woman by her untimely entrance.
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