"I'm fine." She didn't take offense, just brushed it off and continued on. It was a pretty heavy story to drop on someone all at once, but she was just about done with the slow lead-in. There wasn't much more she could say without getting to the heart of the matter.

"That's because after two days, the mansion received visitors. Everyone who had vanished came back, but you weren't yourselves. They were versions from Wonderland's future -- which we have to derail." As much as they possibly could, though Tom himself had told her that there were certain things that had to happen no matter what. That still didn't sit well with her -- but he'd left her the ring and the photograph.

Aside from the Jabberwocky, whatever was coming was big. He had made that abundantly clear.

"This was their chance to change things."