Chapter 1 - The Duchess Hotel
My eyes slowly open and the world has been fliped topsy turvey, compleatly upside down. The Hotel was in the sky, and the sky had replaced once lavashings of green grass,How in the space of ten minutes could the whole of wonderland suddenly turned on it head.
oh wait ...no its no wonderland, it me. im upside down
I lift my body weight upwards to see the buckle of my belt looped around a brach of the tree that I happened find myself in. As I slump my body weight back downwards my pocket slipes from the inside of my jacket and begins swaying in front of me from side to side.
10:06, Jeez where did the time go. I belived it was still only noon but I supose when you take as much Berwilderment as i just had then the time would fly pretty quickly.
I beging swining my body backwards and forwards. As I built up momentom I reached upwards and grabbed onto another branch of the tree slightly higher than the one i was currently conjoined too. I pulled myself up and unlooped my buckle from the branch that had entrapped me.
As I gathered myself together I look outwards onto the view of the Duchess Hotel, where I "work". The Hotel was a very small cottage that looked like grannies house from little red ridding hood, man that wolf was a bastard. But trust me when I say that this little house was not inocent as it appears to be.
Im the Night Watchmen, well im the only watchmen because its always night time in the Duchess. My "Job" its to make the Oysters not want to feel anymore, to no want to be awake and just stay in the Casino where their "suposed" to be. I dont agree with the process of brining Oysters, in fact i hate it but unfortunatly I now require a emotional fix after becoming ...well the honest way to put itis im a junkie, not through choice, but thats a story for another day.
I finally reach the door of the Hotel and use my key to opent the staff door. Well my door as no one else is here. once you enter the Hotel the little grannie cottage turns into what Oysters would call a 1950's style least thats what they all say when they come here.
I make my way to the front desk, looking round casually at my decorum, the signs on the wall, The wall to the left reads "this way" and the wall to the right reads "that way".
I slump downwards into my chair and hoist my legs up onto the desk infront of me. I reach for a bottle marked "Excitment". I grabbed the bottle and pull hard onto the cork. I placed the golden liquid to my lips and chugged the eniterty of the bottle, then proceeded to through it other my sholder the proceed to read the book located on my desk
Suddenly I hear the bell ring, letting me know that someone had opened the door. Not looking up from the book I begin my usual speach.
"welcome to the Duchess Hotel, where were all mad here, to go back the casino like you know should, go this way and if not then I shall escourt you to your room that way, may I take the name so I can find your room key". I continued to flick through the pages of the book.
"Hatter" A famililar and out of breath voice spoke. I knew that voice I had heard it more than once before. The curiousity made me look up from my book to notice him
"Hatter?! what are you doing here" I shouted as I looked towards him noticing he is acompanyed by a oyster wearing a blue dress.