Read The Looking Glass Wars Online

Authors: Frank Beddor

Tags: #Characters in Literature, #Action & Adventure, #Juvenile Fiction, #Fantasy & Magic, #General, #Fantasy, #Fiction

The Looking Glass Wars (31 page)

Again, he nodded. ―I owe you a thanks.‖ He patted the AD52 strapped to his thigh.

―I‘m only glad you weren‘t too proud to use it.‖

―I should have used it more.‖

She understood. He had killed The Cat but, in essence, The Cat had escaped. Whether or not Dodge‘s confrontation with the beast had been enough to loosen the noose of Black Imagination around his throat, to pluck free the barb of hatred that had given his life purpose for so long, only the future would show. But Alyss hoped he could put his anger behind him. She longed for the boy she once knew to take up the body of the man.

We might get to know each other again, refresh the love we once had—a love that although we were young was by no means childish. The jabberwock tooth he‘d given her…I‘ll wear it around my neck to show that I‘ve not forgotten and I still care for him, a talisman against his darker urges.

She turned from Dodge Anders and glimpsed her reflection in a looking glass. She remembered her time in the maze when she stood in this very room and saw, in place of her own reflection, Redd‘s face staring back at her from that same glass. But now her image rippled and faded, and there stood Genevieve and Nolan with their arms around each other, smiling with pride. The progress of the queendom, the Alyssians‘ victorious coup, whatever successes and failures awaited them in the future—it all began with her, Genevieve and Nolan‘s presence seemed to say, the power and wisdom that resided within her, the most powerful queen ever to lead Wonderland.

―It‘s all in your head,‖ Genevieve said.

―I know,‖ said Alyss, and despite the traumas of the past, the uncertainty of the future, she wouldn‘t have given up this moment for anything. ―Isn‘t it wonderful?‖

Twenty-three.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 29

CHAPTER 30

CHAPTER 31

CHAPTER 32

CHAPTER 33

CHAPTER 34

CHAPTER 35

CHAPTER 36

CHAPTER 37

CHAPTER 38

CHAPTER 39

CHAPTER 40

CHAPTER 41

CHAPTER 42

CHAPTER 43

CHAPTER 44

CHAPTER 45

CHAPTER 46

CHAPTER 47

CHAPTER 48

CHAPTER 49

CHAPTER 50

CHAPTER 51

CHAPTER 52

CHAPTER 53

CHAPTER 54

CHAPTER 55

CHAPTER 56

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