"Not sure if you know this," says Tim, dryly, "but the Queen of Hearts isn't real fond of us Reals, either. We're not invulnerable to her. She can still make our lives hell."

And she does, doesn't she? She sends the Mirrors out to do her dirty work and steal things like pills to the point where he has to convince a literal child that they really do belong to him before he'll give them the fuck back - but not before he's seized and made an ass of himself by running around with a mask on at night like an absolute lunatic.

"I'm not saying it'd be easy. I'm just saying that it's possible. I'm saying it doesn't have to be the way it is."