Excerpt: Tea Quiero

Fingertips drummed on the table and the tea was passed around with little speech involved. This was a quiet day for the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and the Dormouse… Too quiet. Matter of fact, this wasn’t normal for the Wonderland gang at all, but they had run out of silly things to talk about at the current moment in time. All three friends didn’t like that.
“So… What are we gonna talk about?” The Hatter inquired to his friends.
Dormouse scrunched his tiny nose, “Uh… Jam flavors we wished would be made?”
Hare shook his head, “We talked about that yesterday..." he paused, "How about the most OUTRAGEOUS Wonderland celebrity battles?” The Hare stretched his arms out as if to suggest the size of such a battle.
Hatter wrinkled his nose to match Dormouse’s, “No, we talked about that the day before yesterday while the Queen was here and she wins every time.”
“Oh yeah.” Hare sighed, and he shrank back down into his seat.
“How about,” Hatter paused, unsure of himself, “How about our good ol’ times when Alice came around?”
Hare and Dormouse gasped and both their mouths gaped in shock. They looked around to make sure nobody had heard. Dormouse retreated into his teapot and Hare leaned in towards Hatter.
“Hatter! You know we haven’t talked about Alice for a looooooong time! The Queen said that maybe if we didn’t talk about her, she’d come back.”