"Riley!"
"Alice, you're here…"
"Hehe, sorry to keep you waiting. Lorraine's just been, well… a bit too worried about me lately."
"Is something wrong?"
"A-Ah, n-no, not at all. Hehe~ it's just that our research papers have to be finalized before the end of the week…" Alice waved her hand dismissively, though her faint smile betrayed the stress she was under.
Inside Alice's domain, the skies stretched endlessly above us—bright, painted in sweet gradients of lavender, rose, and gold.
Colors danced as though someone had brushed the air itself with strokes of watercolor.
The once monotone world, the bland white sheet that had existed back when we defeated the White Queen, was now long gone.
Since the fusion of the Red and White Realms, this place had transformed beyond recognition.
It was vibrant, alive, almost like a mirrored version of the real world, yet dreamlike in how exaggerated and surreal its beauty appeared.
