entranceway | BREAKING } from Ace of Spades, the Wonderland Blog of Georgia Mason, entry #14

The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.

On Monday, in front of a crowd filled with Mirrors and Reals, the ground opened up beneath the Queen of Hearts and swallowed her up into a bright light. In her place, the White Queen, long thought dead, was restored through the boxes of donated memories. Anywhere else, the war that's been brewing for months would be the big story of the day, but Wonderland has never been anywhere else, and the much-touted war turned out to be a chess game. The Red Queen beat the Queen of Hearts, she took it poorly, and then the real story started.

Before her resurrection, the White Queen was the sister about which we knew the least. The earliest record I have found is a memory revealed during a Wonderland party. It shows the three queens as children.

[Embedded video.]

More recently, one of the Red Queen's gifts revealed another memory. It was, fittingly, tied to a white queen chess piece. It showed the White Queen's murder, from the point of view of the perpetrator.

[Another embedded video.]

The killer used the Vorpal Sword and either was or appeared to be one of the White Queen's sisters. I have received confirmation that she was murdered from several sources, but no one has been able to or willing to identity of the killer. The Cheshire Cat said that "perhaps" it had witnessed the murder, but when pressed for an actual name, said, "I'm smarter than to make enemies of them." The Red Queen confirmed her death, but as for the identity of the perpetrator: "That is something I cannot tell you, for I was not there." The Queen of Hearts declined to comment.

While signs do point towards the Queen of Hearts as the murderer, there is only circumstantial evidence so far. Even the White Queen wasn't certain. She assumed the Queen of Hearts, but had no memory of the actual event. "I fell, right to the ground and the next time I opened my eyes was the first time you all saw me. Everything else I remember, my life before that betrayal."

But on further questioning, that's not all she forgets. She claims she never ruled over anything, but Tweedledee and Tweedledum informed me that the Duchess had served her once. I managed to speak to the Duchess before she vanished. "There has been one other, one single proper Queen, the one who ought to be here still. Her loss is greater than you could ever imagine, bad enough to have an impostor sit in her place, do not do not presume that more such vermin could be in the cards." Her implication was clear: the White Queen is gone, and one of her sisters is an imposter who has taken her place.

The White Queen has no memory of the Duchess, or of ever ruling anything before her resurrection. Her role, as she remembers it, has always been keeping peace between her sisters and wielding the vorpal yarn. That much, at least, is consistent in all reports of her character and with her actions so far. She seeks peace between Mirrors and Reals and wants everyone to stop fighting.

We saw the results of the White Queen's quest for peace two winters ago in an alternate Wonderland shown to us in a shared dream. According to the residents there, it was a Wonderland ruled by the White Queen after she had defeated the Queen of Hearts. There had been no events since she had taken over. But no one on the Real side remembered ever having a life before Wonderland, though their Mirrors' memories remained intact. The Real memories were being kept in jars, each labeled with a name, locked away in a secret room.

The White Queen claims she does not have the power to do this. She might be telling the truth, but considering how many gaps there are in her memory, she also might not know. As always, Wonderland leaves us with more questions than answers, but for the moment, at least, the Mirrors seem to be in better hands than they were before. Let's just hope it stays that way.

[As usual, Georgia leaves copies of the article close to several mirrors, and leaves hers uncovered in case anyone wants to talk about it. They deserve to be informed about their monarch.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

My gut says she's not intentionally lying to us. But there are too many holes and inconsistencies for it to be the full truth.

So if something's left out, it might not even be her fault.

Someone wanted her dead at some point, usually there's a reason. She have any idea what that reason might be?

[ Maybe it was just to be sure she wouldn't ever ascend to this position, that'd be Michonne's best guess. ]

No. She doesn't remember very much of anything from her adult life.

Convenient.

Time'll tell us everything we need to know eventually. But if it sounds too good to be true, almost always is.

You're not wrong.

At the very least, I do believe short term, we're going to be better off. She's got more to prove than Hearts did.

If she wants something, if she's trying something, we can't get over there to do anything about it.

That concerns me.

That's no different than it's ever been. The only difference is now we don't know for sure the queen over there is out to get us.

[ She knows it. She's just frustrated as hell. ]

Nothing about it seems right. All the people who've showed up prior to this, the hell did they come from? Same place as her? Her murder was unfortunate, but maybe the mistake is thinking -

[ This could be controversial so she hesitates for just a second before typing again. ]

How do we know she didn't do a damn thing that led up to the *only* retaliation being a murder?

[And there it is. The big reason why knowing more about the White Queen's murder is so damn important. Was she just an innocent? Or did her murderer choose to kill her for a reason?

The White Queen certainly seems to think she's an innocent. But Georgia's not ready to rule out lying, or simply not remembering. The Red Queen certainly holds a different view of the past. But she could lie too. There's so much they don't know, and Wonderland loves changing the rules on them. Georgia hates it.]

We don't. And she says she doesn't remember it happening. Not who did it, not how, not why.

She says.

[ There's nothing really more infuriating than that. ]

If she's lying, she'll slip up eventually. You're keeping track too damn well for her to lie and get away with it.

Fuck right I am. I'm glad I'm not the only one suspicious about all this.

Hell no you aren't.

Last guy I knew who practiced peace after the chaos had an aquarium full of walker heads in his basement. Murdered a lot of people I love. All in the name of peace. So fuck it, I don't trust her. Don't care how that makes me sound.

Yikes. That's fucked up.

[Especially if, like in her world, keeping the brain intact means the zombie isn't actually dead. If Shaun had done a clean brain shot instead of severing her spinal column, they'd never have been able to clone her.

She's not sure if she wishes he'd been more careful or not.]

Peace and safety are great ideals, but not if they come at the cost of freedom. And the dreams of her world we had before, the one where she had claimed all our memories, we sure were all happy and peaceful there.

It fits the letter of her goals, even if it's not something we'd ever want.

That's even if it was actually her hope for Wonderland, or something else trying to make us think it's what would happen. What could happen.

[ Wonderland hasn't exactly gone easy on the manipulation. ]

So basically, if she's telling the truth we're fucked, and if she's lying we're fucked.

Sounds like business as usual for Wonderland.

I'm used to a fucked up way of life. Just another damn day with unpredictable weird shit.

Yeah, it's hard to be caught off balance by much once the dead start rising.

BREAKING } from Ace of Spades, the Wonderland Blog of Georgia Mason, entry #14

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;

text;