We’re All Mad Here //Loki (Atticus) & The Mad Hatter (Marley) //Monsters or Madness? //Oct. 30th, 1979.
//Location: Ministry of Magic Atrium//
The tea was stronger than tea was supposed to be, but then, no one had ever mentioned that tea was intended to have a certain strength in order to be proper tea. And truly this tea was indeed wonderfully proper in Hatter’s most humble and magnificent opinion.
Magnificent. Another word that started with “M”. Hatter added it to her mental list to investigate it later.
Speaking of letter “M”, what a wonderful display of “muchness” this curious gathering offered. All these splendid people wearing elaborated gowns and funny looking robes. Many of them had the most remarkable hats resting on top of their heads. Those were the ones Hatter liked the most.
She paced cautiously between the guests, taking constant sips from her cup of tea. It was having a most notorious effect on her person. At times she felt like the world was spinning violently, and yet everything seemed to be extraordinary calm.
“Curiouser and curiouser. I wonder what sort of potion they’ve poured on my tea” she exclaimed out loud to herself, taking another sip and tasting the drops that lingered on her cherry lips. Mhhm…Nope, not shrinking potion. Perhaps…no, it lacked the excessively sweet note of the growing potion too. Though it did give her the feeling that her head was getting larger. Wich couldn’t be too bad. Big heads meant even bigger hats.
Bloody Red! But certainly no hat as splendid as the one that she spotted at the other side of the room, glimmering in royal golden light under the magical lanterns.
Hatter launched foward, dancing her way through the crowd. It would’ve been much easier to fly over their heads with her hat, but of course, with no one to toss it in the air for her to ride, and no shrinking potion either, that mean of transportation was not in her cards.
Cards! Ha! The Queen of Hearts would’ve had Hatter’s head of for that comment. Ah, if only Hatter had a head in first place.
She reached the muchful individual with the extraordinary hat. Oh, what a mesmerizing eye-sight.
“Oh, another M word…keep it, keep it!”
The hat encircled almost the entire of its owner’s head, more like a helmet, actually. It seemed to be made of pure gold, thought it looked a lot harder than gold at the same time. The design itself wouldn’t have been much remarkable hadn’t it been for the pair of breath-taking horns that sprouted from the top, elegantly curving backwards and ending in a sharp, dangerous looking point.
More than a hat, this was a helmet. More than a helmet, this was a crown. And a crown like Hatter had never seen before, and she’d had her fair share of crowns (all the Queens and Queen-abes of Wonderland wanted Hatter to design their crowns). Oh, but none would ever be worthy of such splendid work of art as the one that ruled that regal head before her. Not even the White Queen, with her tiny, pretty head, would ever be good enough for such spectacular golden horns.
“Well met, not so old friend” she chipped breathlessly at the horned man “By Absolem’s smoke, if your hat is not the very definition of how a raven is like a desk, then indeed that riddle has no solution. Such muchness I have never seen before in my nineteen years, eleven months, three days, twenty hours, forty-five minutes and seven…eight…nine…” she trailed off, watching the giant clock on the wall behind the horned creature’s head.