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Barbara looked out at the view as Ian put the last of their things in the car. From the front door of the little Bed and Breakfast, she could see beautiful rolling hills for miles. The last of the morning was being chased away as the sun rose higher in the sky, thawing everything out. Even the cows seemed more active on one particular hill.

"I wish we could stay for a little longer," she sighed to Ian, turning her back on it all so that it might be easier to leave. Her arms folded, one hand still held on to the key they were yet to return. "I don't suppose your car has a secret time traveling device so we can spend an extra few weeks here?"
splendid_roman: (Thinking)
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"Alice didn't have to." Not that it was necessarily a guarantee, but he didn't want to do something dastardly if they didn't have to.

The cards shuffled themselves so they were all facing Ian and Barbara.

"We won't," the three of spades said.

"But we will tell you which way to the Palace," the five of diamonds said. "It's that way."

"No, that way." The nine of clubs pointed in the opposite direction to the five of diamonds.
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They clearly couldn't believe anything the cards said, so they might as well pick a direction at random. Ian looked along the road and then back the way they'd come. Neither of them gave any indication as to their direction.

"There's a gap in that hedge," he said quietly to Barbara, looking over to their right. "Why don't we go across the field instead?"
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"I'm not sure Alice had many proper conversations in Wonderland. It was more of a delightful, odd journey." Which he really wasn't appreciating just at the moment.

"Let's head up the hill." The field seemed to be sloping upwards slightly, so it wasn't a hard climb. Although Ian didn't remember it looking like that when they started up it. "Maybe we'll get a good view at the top."
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"That was only good when we could find our way back. We walked for miles after finding that cinema." Admittedly they'd spent some time in the cinema as well, especially once they'd found it had some films from the future. But at the time it hadn't quite felt worth the journey.
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"You did?" He looked over at her, surprised, and forgetting that the popcorn had at least been proper food, not just food bars from the machine. "I thought about putting my hand on your leg a few times," he admitted.
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He smiled at her. "I know that now." He stopped and twisted round a bit to brush the back of his free hand against her leg. He was in the perfect position to see a white rabbit crawl into a rabbit hole that was definitely too small for either of them.

"I just saw the rabbit again," he told Barbara as he straightened up. "Over there." He pointed to where it had been. "It was definitely wearing a waistcoat." If it had said anything it was too far away for Ian to hear.
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"No." The voice was definitely coming from somewhere inside the hole, judging by the sound. "I'm very late." The white rabbit bounded out of the hole and nearly ran into Barbara.

"Excuse me," he said and turned to go up the hill.

"What are you late for?" Ian asked him.
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"I don't remember. I suppose if we're following the book we'll have to go to the palace sometime." Even if they didn't really have a desire to see the Queen. But he did start off after the rabbit, having to jog to keep up with him.

Once they were at the top of the hill and Ian was resolving to be better at keeping fit, they did have a good view of wherever it was they were. The Queen's palace was at the bottom of the hill and it looked like the road circled around the hill, so you could reach the palace from either direction.

Curiously, the horizon seemed to be white, with roundels in it.
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Ian put a hand on Barbara's back. "I don't know." He had been distracted by the view and the rabbit had vanished. Presumably down another rabbit hole. "Maybe if we stay here for a while it'll reappear." And if it didn't, they could decide where to head next.
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"Assuming the sun moves the same way as it does at home." It looked like it was setting, but Ian wouldn't be surprised if it bounced back up or there was a second sun at night or something.

Looking around, nowhere looked especially like a good place to go. He was sure he could see the sea in the distance in the other direction, but if it did get dark, that wouldn't be the best direction to go in.

"We could wait until it gets a bit darker than then head towards the lights."
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"That's a good idea." Ian put an arm around Barbara's shoulders. "I knew I married you for a reason." He grinned at her.
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"You're always pretty," he said in a more serious tone, and kissed her. As he did he heard scuffling and broke off quickly to look around. He saw the rabbit again. It had come out of a camouflaged rabbit hole and now hopped down the hill complaining about being late.
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Ian agreed with that and he caught hold of Barbara's hand as he ran down the hill. The trouble with running downwards was that it was harder to stop - or run slowly. It did mean they could keep up with the white rabbit better, at least until it reached the bottom and vanished again.

All Ian could see was a dark space that he presumed was some sort of ditch. He made sure to keep on his feet, but it was no use because he suddenly found the ground vanished from beneath him and he was falling.

He worried for a moment and thought that he should of let go of Barbara's hand, rather than pull her down with him, until he realised he wasn't falling so much as floating.

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