Alice in Circles - Chapter 2 Chapter 2 - Two As Alice stepped inside, the mouth slammed shut behind her and all the light was shrowded in darkness. Alice stood silently for a few seconds then she called out the word "Ma!". Wood creaked and crumbled and replied with "Ma?...". "Echo..." A single light Illuminated a single face. "Echo? You speek no sence dear. All these 'Mama's and 'echo's will get you no where unless you learn to speak some proper english young lady." "Sorry Ma'm" Said Alice quicky so as not to offend. "Your reply caught me off-guard" She said. "Off -guard? Why should it catch YOU off-guard when it was YOU who asked the question? Hmm...?" As it spoke, the figure stepped forward into Alice's field of vision with all eight of its long hairy legs. It lowered its body down untill its face was level with Alices and said "Let me show you to your room" as it sported a toothy smile. From behind its back, pulled it a glow worm. "Can't be doing with fire in here. We don't want father going up in flames now do we?" It chuckled to it's self and turned around to present Alice a flight of helixual wooden stairs. "Don't be shy. I don't bite. Some of the others do though so we'd better hurry up. Off you go." It said as it extended a limb towards the bottom step. Hesitantly, she stepped up slanted circular steps some of which were sideways or broken and the took caution on each step for each step could be curved in such a way it was impossable to stand on truthfully. Alice however IS sharp so, so much so that she cut her arm. Oops. Blood fountained down steps in circles. Waves and wine and Alice lay round. Her eyes were closed and her hair were red. Eight hairy legs surrounding her head. An act of kindness or selfish intent? As the the eight hairy legs took Alice to bed. Linkigi™ End of chapter 2