Wonderland (Intergalactic Fairy Tales Book 1) by Robert McKay Read Free Book Online

between two poles. It was very narrow.
    She paced down the length of fence and kept one eye on the guards, thankful for the poor lighting. It would be a tough squeeze, but if she could just get inside, she was sure she could get her ship outside through one of the large openings in the side of the building that the ships passed in through.
    Alice sucked in a deep breath and pushed into the gap. She had a moment of panic where she thought she would have to shout for help from the guards to get back out of the fence. After a lot of wiggling and some pretty nasty scrapes, she popped through and tumbled to the concrete floor.

 
     
     
    CHAPTER SIX
     
     
    The ships in the queen’s special section of the docks varied greatly. Most of them were much more ostentatious looking than The White Rabbit, but as far as Alice could tell, none of them were alive. One small ship looked like it was designed to carry a single passenger and was very sleek and sharp. It was strikingly familiar. Alice was certain that she’d seen something like it before. Once she got close enough, she spotted a Nedran flag on the nose of the craft. It was a Talon! One of the brand new fighter ships designed to fight off the Colarians. It didn’t make any sense for it to be in the red queen’s collection, but there it sat, looking beautiful and deadly. It was tempting to try to take a look inside, but Alice reminded herself that she already had a ship and she could be caught by guards at any moment.
    Just when her nerves started to get the best of her and she was about to head back through the gap in the fence, The White Rabbit came into view at the back of the garage. To Alice he looked sad and lonely. She knew just what to do about that.
    “Hello, Rabbit,” said Alice, trying to keep her tone down.
    The White Rabbit didn’t respond.
    “Are you sleeping, Rabbit?” she asked, wondering if he was actually able to close his eyes, if in fact the clear spots on his rabbit-like face actually were eyes.
    Still, The White Rabbit said nothing and made no move to indicate it knew of her presence. It was still hovering off the ground, so being asleep didn’t seem likely.
    Alice stepped closer and wrapped gently on the ship’s white hull with her knuckles as if she were knocking on a door. “Are you in there, Rabbit?”
    “Now that’s just a ludicrous question,” snapped Rabbit. “Of course I’m ‘in here’. If I weren’t I would literally have to be out of my mind. Hmph.”
    “Then why didn’t you respond when I spoke to you before? Were you asleep?”
    “No, I wasn’t asleep. I don’t sleep, not that it should concern you,” hissed Rabbit. “What should concern you is the fact that I’m not happy with you and I was choosing to ignore you until you decided to go wrapping on my hull and asking the stupidest question I’ve ever heard. Now, kindly go away and leave me to my boredom.”
    “Please, keep your voice down,” whispered Alice. “I don’t want to get caught in here. Those guards out there didn’t look to be very nice people, if they were people at all.”
    “You mean you didn’t even get permission to come back here and talk to me?”
    Alice looked all around her, her eyes peeled for any movement. Rabbit’s voice was still unreasonably loud, but she didn’t want to ask him to keep quiet again. It just seemed to make him more angry. “I had no intention of just coming back here to talk to you, I planned on taking you out of here. Somehow I didn’t think that the queen would think too highly of me stealing a ship right out of her own palace.”
    “Right you are on that account.” Rabbit laughed. It was a strange whistling snort that made Alice smile, even if it did seem to be at her expense. “But what makes you think I would ever leave this place with an intolerable brat such as yourself?”
    Alice took a step back, her brow furrowed in confusion. “Why would you say such a mean thing to me?”
    “Because you are treating