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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?"
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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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"Didn't Alice get into Wonderland this way?" They seemed to be falling past some sort of storage room for odds and ends. There were a few cupboards on the walls, which Ian didn't dare open, although they were falling slowly enough that he probably could. A bookshelf they passed was full of identical copies of Alice in Wonderland.

"Odd sort of hole, though," he said, just as they found themselves out of it and fell gently on the grass by the car.
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Everything looked normal, which was a good start. "I think we're back," Ian said cautiously. "I suppose we'll find out if anything odd happens."

He still had the car keys in his pocket, he found, which was something. "I wonder what time it is." The sun had moved round a bit, but it was hard to be precise.
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As Ian helped Barbara up he considered that he was as probably as dusty and dishevelled as she was. "We'll put the radio on," he promised. "And stop at the next services."

He was glad he'd put everything away and locked the car before he'd gone off into the forest in search of Barbara. It at least meant no one had stolen the car while they'd been gone.

Everything continued to stay normal while he unlocked the car, got in, started it up and turned the radio on. He was half expecting the car to turn into a carriage pulled by pigs or something like that.
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"And not long after we left, either." The radio had given today's date and the time was only an hour later than his watch said it was. And they had been in Wonderland a while.

"I wish I knew what it had all been about."

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