[ EU ] H.P . Lovecraft 's `` Alice in Wonderland ''

The caterpillar, for surely it must have been a caterpillar, Alice assured herself, although an unusually large one blew smoke in her direction. 
 
 
 Yes. Smoke, she assured herself, her grin widening another notch. Ignoring the coldness of the `` smoke'', ignoring the odd, faint smell of... of flowers, yes, sweat and sickly, like... like... an unbidden thought came to her of the rotting dog carcass she had once seen and smelled in the street and she hurriedly forced her thoughts away from this memory. 
 
 
 Her cheeks hurt from grinning. 
 
 
 `` So that is all?'' She asked, grin firmly in place, sweat running down her face. `` Are you quite sure?'' 
 
 
 `` Yes'' the horrible voice said, like acid in her mind. `` Eat. Go. Am sure'' 
 
 
 Alice stared of the piece of the mushroom she had broken of. Of the sickly white, *glowing* mushroom. 
 
 
 Nothing had ever appealed less to her. 
 
 
 She thought back to the Mad Hatter, the rabbit with it's red eyes and foam in his mouth which the Hatter had skinned for new material while it still talked to her. 
 
 
 To the Queen of Hearts, the horrible faces of the flat, shriveled up people that made up her `` card deck''. 
 
 
 Of the... cat, yes, surely it was a cat, a thing she had been unable to see more of than it's... *grin*, every teeth crooked and like a shark's, the rest of the body quite unusual enough her brain had refused to perceive it. 
 
 
 She tried to keep smiling, to `` chin up and smile'' like her mother had always said, but as the memories came over her a little sob managed to escape as tears rolled down her cheeks. 
 
 
 This piece of alien mushroom was her ticket out of here. 
 
 
 Maybe it was n't so bad after all. 
 
 
 Grimacing she brought the spongy material up to her mouth, all to aware of the eyes, the many *many* eyes, of the `` caterpillar'' on her as she did. 
 
 
 `` Yes'' it said `` You eat'' 
 
 
 She put the piece of mushroom in her mouth, fighting the revulsion. 
 
 
 She started to chew. 
 
 
 She bit on something hard. Chitinous. 
 
 
 She stared at the caterpillar in horror. 
 
 
 `` Yes'' it said, sounding satisfied `` You go. I go. *We all go*'' 
 
 
 The hard thing in her mouth *sprung forward* toward her throat. Alice's hand flew to her neck, stumbling with shock, gagging in horror as *something forced it's way down her throat*. 
 
 
 Alice body twitched. She felt her arms go lax, her face relaxing. 
 
 
 In frozen terror she felt *something* expand in her mind, burning her like cold fire. `` Yes'' it hissed in her, sounding like the caterpillar `` Now we visit the surface'' it found a memory, unfolding before her inner eyes. `` Now we visit *your parents*'' 
 
 
 Locked deep inside her body Alice screamed. 
 

