The Looking Glass Wars

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Jack heard the words too, but it took a moment for his addled brain to understand their meaning.

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Dodge flung out his fists and knocked Jack to the floor, left him splayed there with his wig askew, looking not at all like a person of high rank.

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The unspoken consensus was that a meaningful victory like the one at Blaxik would never be theirs again.

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Redd's diabolically inventive mind was not to be underestimated;

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Silence breeds independent thought, which in turn breeds dissent.

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Bibwit Harte, the royal tutor, had explained to her that most of Wonderland took pride in the Inventors' Parade, the one time every year when citizens flaunted their skills and ingenuity before the queen.

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In Genevieve's time and before, it had been a grand thoroughfare of upscale shops and restaurants, but the wealthy and privileged gradually moved elsewhere as the surrounding streets became havens for looter gangs, imagination-stimulant manufacturers, and Wonderlanders engaged in other illicit but profitable employment.

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Bibwit Harte, the royal tutor, had explained to her that most of Wonderland took pride in the Inventors' Parade, the one time every year when citizens flaunted their skills and ingenuity before the queen.

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And Redd would have been queen—she would have ruled with all the innate power she possessed—if not for the presumption of her sister.

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It has been necessary to forge in you the wise and judicious temperament that will guide you as protector of the Heart Crystal.

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But what if, because of some unknown leniency in Redd, she did allow them to live?

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The far wall of the ballroom was decorated with a huge quartz and agate mosaic of the queen's face and, as Redd approached it, the portrait's mouth opened and she entered a secret passage known only to herself and The Cat.

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It was a rhetorical question, fools!

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The squalor had at last reached its fingers into Emerald Drive itself, and the once-celebrated promenade was now indistinguishable from the scum-heavy streets around it.

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They ran down brick lanes, cut through alleys, and crossed thoroughfares.

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"That's the place?" General Doppelganger asked. "It looks more than a bit...unsavory."