DREAMLAND
MY NAME IS GOOGIE, AND THIS IS MY ACCOUNT OF MEETING THE WOMAN I CALL TWELVE, BUT YOU MAY KNOW
HER AS ALICE. A MYSTERY SHE IS TO ME, YET A MELODY HARPS UPON MY SOUL, THE DAY ALICE FOUND THE LION
OF THE TRIBE OF EGYPT, THE PORTAL OF GODS, FROM THAT CELESTIAL CITY WHICH LEVITATES ABOVE. THIS IS MY
ACCOUNT OF AN EVENT WHICH HAPPENED IN THAT WICKED WORLD OF DREAMLAND. THIS IS MY STONE-PEN OF
GOLD, THE WRITING ON THE WALL WHICH BOUND ME BY A BLOOD SPELL, CAST UPON MY MIND AND BODY, TO
TORMENT ME NIGHT AND DAY, AN ENDLESS LOOP WHICH COULD NOT BE BROKEN, UNTIL THAT DAY BY WHICH SHE
WHOM IS TWELVE UNLOCKED THE PORTAL WHICH LEAD TO THE CRYSTAL CITY, THE ABODE OF THE LAND OF LOVE,
HAPPINESS, PEACE AND EVERLASTING LIFE!


HELLO, I AM ALICE, AND I HAD THE ODDEST DREAM ON AUGUST 19TH, 2020. THIS IS MY ACCOUNT OF A DASTARDLY
CREATURE,  WRAPPED IN WHITE SPANDEX ATTIRE, WHICH COVERED ITS' EYES AND MOUTH BY WHICH IT COULD
NOT SPEAK!

OH THE TROUBLE IN THIS WORLD TODAY, I'VE GOT TO GET OUT, THERE MUST BE A WAY! AS I LIFT MY EYES FROM
THE DREARY OF UNREST, A SIGHT I DID SEE, BUT IT IS A MESS!  UPON THE WALL, SPIDERS CRAWL, INTO FORMATIONS
THEY EXPAND WITH TROUBLE IN AWE.  THEY TRANSFORM INTO SOME KIND OF CODE, SUCH AS IN LETTERS OF
ANCIENTS WHO WROTE IN BOLD, YET FADE AWAY LIKE RIPPLES OF WATER , IS THIS A MIND SPELL WHICH BINDS
AND BOTHERS?

WHO IS THIS CREATURE WHICH STANDS UPON THE WALL, CAN YOU SPEAK, WILL YOU TALK, OR NOTHING AT ALL?
WHO IS IN CHARGE OF DREAMLAND? ARE YOU OUR ENEMY, OR FOE, AND NOT A FRIEND? WHO CAST THIS PLACE IN A
SPELL, WHY IS THIS WORLD MUCH WICKEDER LIKE HELL? WHO IS IN CONTROL OF THIS UNHOLY STRESS? CAN YOU
HEAR MY CALL, WILL YOU HEED MY DISTRESS? YOU ACT AS IF YOU REFUSE TO SPEAK; OR IS THIS COVERING MAKING
YOU WEAK?

SPEAK UP, WHAT'S YOUR NAME, WHO ARE YOU, HEY! CAN YOU TELL ME ANSWERS, WILL YOU SHOW ME THE WAY?
WHY ARE YOU COVERED, AND WHERE IS YOUR FACE? WHAT'S THESE NOTES ON YOUR CHEST, IS IT THE SYMBOL HEI?
SPICKLE, FRICKLE, PICKLE AND FRET, WHEN I LEAVE THIS PLACE, YOU MAY REGRET! NEVER IS EVER AND ALWAYS
IS NEVER, WHY ARE YOU HERE, DON'T YOU HAVE EARS?  IF YOU WILL NOT SPEAK, THEN SPEECHLESS YOU'LL BE, I
CAME TO THIS PLACE TO SET DREAMLAND FREE!

I AM THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF EGYPT, FROM A NOT SO FAR AWAY LAND, I ARRIVED FOR FUN AND GAMES, BUT
BECAME BOUND BY MY OWN FATED HANDS. NO GOD, ANGEL OR CREATURE COULD FREE ME, AND NO ONE FROM
THE HEAVENS WOULD EVEN SEE ME. ALICE CAME AT TWELVE AND FREED ME FROM MY OWN FORGOTTEN HELL!
SHE TOUCHED ME NOT WITH HER HANDS, BUT IT WAS THE TOUCH OF HER VOICE OF HEY, WHICH WOKE ME IN A
PLACE CALLED DREAMLAND!
TICK TOCK "ALICE ARE YOU OKAY?" ALICE " OH YES, I AM NOW AWAKE, BUT I HAD THE DARNEDEST DREAM TODAY, I
DREAMED I WENT TO A MAGICAL PLACE. A WICKED PLACE TICK TOCK , I SEEN A VERY WICKED THING, IT WAS
HIDEOUS AND IN  WHITE ATTIRE, IT WAS BOUND BY A SPELL, IT SEEMED SO REAL, BUT I KNOW, OH IT'S TIME TO GO, I
AM SO DONE, I JUST DON'T HAVE FUN, MY LEGS DON'T KNOW WHERE TO RUN. I AM SO STUCK IN THIS DREAMLAND,
WITH THESE FALSE THRILLS AND FAKE HILLS!

BEFORE I WOKE UP, I HEARD SOMEONE SAY THAT I AM TWELVE, IT'S TIME TO WAKE. WHAT TIME IS IT TICK TOCK,
WHAT TIME IS ON YOUR CLOCK, WHICH REWINDS AND ALWAYS STOPS?"
TICK TOCK" IT IS TWELVE TWENTY FIVE,
PERHAPS BECAUSE OF THE TIME IS THE REASON FOR YOUR RHYME, WE ARE LATE, LATE, LATE, I MUST HURRY OR MISS
THE DATE! I'M THE FASTEST RABBIT IN ALL THE LAND, COME ON ALICE, PLEASE TAKE MY HAND! REWIND, REWIND, I
CANNOT LOSE THIS TIME!"

ALICE  "TICK TOCK, I THINK IT IS THE DREAM GOD MORPHEUS WHO SENDS ME ON THESE ESCAPADES, FROM DAY TO
EVENING AND FROM NIGHT TO DAY. I WANT OUT, I AM NOT A PAWN OR LITTLE MOUSE! IF HE'S GOING TO SEND ME
A DREAM, THEN MAKE IT THE SWEETEST THING, AND TAKE ME AWAY FROM THIS MISERY WORLD BECAUSE  I AM NO
HAMSTER, I AM A HUMAN GIRL!"

TICK TOCK "OH WE MUST HURRY, HURRY, HURRY, BUT WE MUST NOT SCURRY!" ALICE "YOU MAKE NO SENSE TICK
TOCK, HOW CAN YOU BE IN A HURRY AND NOT SCURRY? I THINK YOU ARE FULL OF EXCITE AND WORRY."

TICK TOCK "WHAT IS THIS I SEE AROUND YOUR NECK, IS IT A HORSE SHOE OR A OHM SOUND, DID YOU FIND IT IN
THE SKY, OR PICK IT UP FROM THE GROUND? "  
ALICE  " OH MY, THIS IS THE LEO SIGN, I REMEMBER NOW, IT COMES
TO MY MIND.  HE SAID HE WAS GOOGIE THE LION OF A TRIBE, HE SAID HE CAME NOT SO FAR FROM THE SKY. HE
SAID IT IS HIS SIGN FROM HIM TO ME, TO HELP ME REMEMBER THAT I LIVE IN DREAMS."  
TICK TOCK "THAT'S
PREPOSTEROUS, HOW COULD ONE LIVE IN A DREAM?,  NOTHING IN WONDERLAND IS AS IT MAY SEEM. WE KNOW
THAT IT'S THE SAND MAN WHO SENDS YOU A DREAM, AND MAKES IT THE CUTEST THAT YOU EVER SEEN, HE GIVES
YOU STUFF LIKE CLOVERS AND ROSES, AND RINGS, HE'S THE ONE THAT GIVES YOU SWEET DREAMS!"

ALICE "NOW YOU SOUND PREPOSTEROUS TICK TOCK! I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO SEND ME A DREAM THAT TAKES MY
NIGHTMARES AWAY, I DON'T LIKE THIS PLACE AND I AM NOT AFRAID TO LEAVE, I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS
RABBIT HOLE AND BE FREE!"   

TICK TOCK "OH NOW YOU ARE DREAMING!" ALICE  "MY DREAMS, OH YES MY DREAMS, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT WE ARE
IN REALITY, WHEN ALL THE UNDERWORLD IS IN SUCH CALAMITY? TELL ME TICK TOCK, WITH YOUR TIME PIECE
WATCH. YOUR CLOCK SEEMS TO MOVE SO RAPIDLY, AND I FEEL LESS AND LESS HAPPILY, ARE YOU SURE WE AREN'T IN
A DREAM WITH ALL THESE MOVING TRICKY THINGS, SO MUCH THAT THE SAND MAN FORGET TO GIVE ME MY WISH,
TO ME AWAKE FROM THIS DARKNESS PITCHED?"

TICK TOCK "COME NOW MY LOVELY ALICE, DON'T BE SO QUAINT WITH MALICE. A DREAM IS MERELY A DREAM,
NOTHING MORE THAN IT REALLY SEEMS, EVEN IF THE SANDMAN FORGOT TO GIVE YOU DIAMONDS UPON MY
WATCH! HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, THE MOUSE IS OUT, WHILE YOU LIE DOWN AND POUT, SO UNLOOSE THESE DEAR
WORDS FROM YOUR SNOUT. A DREAM IS A DREAM, NOTHING MORE THAN THESE THINGS, YOU ARE ONLY WISHFUL
OF THAT WHICH IS BLISSFUL! IT'S OKAY TO DREAM IN WONDERLAND, BUT DON'T EVER LET IT PAST THE SECOND
HAND, LEST TIME REWINDS AND YOU LOSE YOUR MIND. LET NOT THIS TROUBLE YOU TOO MUCH MY SWEET, YOU
SEEM SO MUCH HAPPIER WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP, SO IT'S OKAY TO DREAM THE SWEETEST DREAM, AND MAKE IT THE
BEST THAT YOU'VE EVER SEEN. SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING THAT'S NICE, PLEASE ALICE HASTE AND AWAKE,
WE ARE LATE,  I SAY LATE FOR AN IMPORTANT TEA DATE. ONCE YOU TASTE THE BREW OF IT'S SPLENDOR, YOU WILL
NO LONGER MIX YOUR REALITIES IN SUCH BLENDER."

ALICE  "WHAT TIME IS IT TICK TOCK, WHAT TIME'S ON YOUR WATCH?" TICK TOCK " WHY IT'S THE FIRST OF
DECEMBER, WHY DON'T YOU EVER REMEMBER?
ALICE "OH COME NOW TICK TOCK, IT IS YOU NOT I WHO HAS
FORGOT! IT WAS AUGUST JUST A MOMENT AGO, HOW IS TIME SO FAST, YET I SEEM  SO SLOW?"
TICK TOCK "YOU LOVE
TO DREAM, HAPPIER YOU SEEM TO DO THESE THINGS! WE MUST HASTE, WE MUST HASTE, SPEND NO MORE  TIME IN
THIS DREAM WASTE!"

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 3:57 PM ALICE "IT'S TRUE, I'M HAPPIER ASLEEP DREAMING, I WANT TO LUCID DREAM
LATE-NIGHT, BUT MY BODY BEGGED ME TO LET IT HAVE THE SLEEP TO REPAIR ITSELF, I SEEM SO WEAK, AND IT'S
WORKING IT'S ASS OFF 24 HOURS A DAY, REPAIRING ITSELF, AND IT HASN'T GIVEN UP, IT'S TRYING TO PURGE THE
NANO TECH STUFF, THE CHEMICALS, AND ALL THE MESS WHICH IS ROUGH! BETWEEN THE POISONING, AND MILLS
FAKE, TRYING TO MURDER AND STEAL OUR FREEDOMS, IT'S BECOME A PLUNDERLAND IN THIS KINGDOM! YES, IT'S
VERY STRESSFUL, I WOULD RATHER RUN THROUGH THE FORREST CHASING FAIRIES AND FIREFLIES, SURROUNDED
BY PLANTS AND STARS IN THE SKY. BARE FEET ON EARTH MAKES ME SUPER HAPPY, BARE FEET ON A MOONLIT BEACH,
A CRESCENT MOON, EXPLORING MYSTERIOUS PATHS ON THE BEACH, THAT LEAD TO A LIGHTHOUSE AND SAND
DUNES, THAT I SEEK. YES, I STILL AM IN ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE MAGIC, BUT IT'S PAWN OF YOU TO NIBBLE SUCH
WORDS TO ME  RABBIT!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25TH  ALICE SPEAKS FROM A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM "IN MY DREAM I DO RECALL, A LION MAN
WITH WHOM HE BRAWLS? WHAT IS THIS THAT SEE WITH MY MIND, TWO STARS BECOME ONE, HAVE I GONE BLIND?
 
ALICE AWAKES, IT'S CHRISTMAS NIGHT
"I MUST HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP BUT WHAT A PRETTY SIGHT. HAPPY HOLIDAYS
GOOGIE AND THIS MISTINESS AS WELL, WHAT IS THIS DREAM, CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL? HAPPY HOLIDAYS
EVERYONE AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL, OH I WISH EVERYONE IN WONDERLAND A BALL!"
CHESHIRE APPEARS
WITH A SMILE FROM EAR TO EAR
"HELLO ALICE WHO LIVES IN DREAMS, WHAT IS THIS MADNESS THAT YOU
SCREAM?"
ALICE "HAPPY HOLIDAYS KITTY SO CLEVER AND WITTY. ARE YOU HAPPY TODAY, OR YOUR SMILE UPSIDE
DOWN IN A FROWN MUCH LIKE A CLOWN; DO YOU BRING GOOD TIDINGS TO MY TOWN?"
CHESHIRE "OH WHAT IS
THIS I SEE UPON YOUR NECK, IT IS A HORSE SHOE OR ORNAMENT FOR YOUR TREE, WHAT IS THIS TRASH, AWAY WITH
THIS THING!"
ALICE "THIS IS A GIFT FROM GOOGIE A LION LIKE YOU, BUT A HUMAN QUITE SMOOTHLY, SMOOTHER
THAN SMOOTH. I DREAMED OF HIM, A DASTARDLY CREATURE, WRAPPED IN WHITE SPANDEX WAS HIS GRIM
FEATURE. HIS WORDS ARE SOFT YET HE SPITS OUT FIRE! HE WETS MY DREAMS WITH TOUCHES OF DESIRE. HE GAVE
ME THIS NECKLACE, SAID IT WOULD HELP ME REMEMBER THAT I LIVE IN DREAMS SINCE BEFORE I COULD
REMEMBER."
 CHESHIRE "AWAY WITH THESE DREAMS OF MADNESS, THAT GOOGIE CAME TO BRING YOU SADNESS!  
THIS THING IS A TRICK TO TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THIS WORLD, FLING IT, SLING IT AND LET IT HURL!  DON'T
BELIEVE IN SUCH FAIRY TALES, THAT'S FOR BAD WITCHES WHO CAST UPON YOU SPELLS!  WHO CAN BE HUMAN YET
SAY THEY ARE FELINE? THAT CREATURE IS DECEITFUL AND PRETENDS TO BENIGN!"

ALICE "IT'S DECEMBER 26TH, SO QUICKLY 4:30, SO WHY DOES MY HEART POUND WHEN SPEAKS THIS DEAR BIRDIE?,
OH CHESHIRE, WHY IS TIME IN SUCH A HURRY, WHY DO I FEEL SO TIRED AND ALWAYS MUST SCURRY?"
CHESHIRE
"OH NOW NOW, NOW IS NO TIME, TO MAKE SUCH REASON FOR TREACHEROUS CRIMES, DO AWAY WITH THIS DREAM
BEFORE YOU TOO GO BLIND! THAT ONE YOU CALL GOOGIE IS DECEITFUL AND EVIL, HE CONTROLS YOUR BODY AND
MAKES YOUR MIND FEEBLE!"  
ALICE "BUT HE SAID HE LOVES ME AND THAT I AM GREAT, AND THAT I AM FROM A
PLACE NOT SO FAR AWAY, THAT I SHOULD TOO AWAKE FROM THIS FAKE."

CHESHIRE "NOW NOW, NOW HEAR ME WELL, THIS FAKE CAT CREATURE IS FULL OF HELL! CAST AWAY THIS
NIGHTMARE FROM AROUND YOUR NECK, YOUR FACE NO MORE BLUE, AWAY AND FORGET!"   
ALICE " I AM MORE
POWERFUL DURING THE NIGHT, I STAY UP AT NIGHT BECAUSE THE DAY ISN'T RIGHT. EVEN THOUGH IT IS NIGHT WE
GO INTO PURE LIGHT!" CHESHIRE "NOW NOW ALICE, DON'T FILL YOUR HEAD, BE STILL NOW AND GO BACK TO BED!"

DECEMBER 27TH, 12:12 AM GOOGIE DESCENDS UPON ALICE RIGHT BEFORE SHE AWAKES: GOOGIE "MY DEAR ALICE,
DON'T BE FULL OF MALICE, I COME TO TAKE YOU HOME TO YOUR HEAVENLY PALACE."
ALICE AWAKES "GET AWAY
FROM ME, DON'T TOUCH ME THERE, I HATE WHEN YOU DO THIS, YOU'RE MAKING ME SCARED. I HATE THAT YOU
LOVE ME, IT CONFUSES MY WORLD, HOW WOULD YOU SO POWERFUL LOVE SUCH A DEAR GIRL?"
GOOGIE "YOU FREED
MY HEART AND MADE ME REMEMBER, THAT TRUE LOVE COMES IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER.  
ALICE "YOU TRYING
TO SAY THAT YOU ARE TRUE, GET AWAY FROM ME NOW, IT'S JUST TOO SHREWD. LET ME GO PLEASE, IT'S RIPPING ME
APART, I AM CONFUSED, BREAK NO MORE MY HEART. JUST LEAVE ME ALONE, STAY AWAY YOUR LOVING HANDS, IT'S
FOR ME ALONE, FOR MY SOUL TO UNDERSTAND, THIS IS MY WORLD, AWAY FROM MY DREAMLAND. I KNOW THAT IN
THE END WE BOTH BECOME LIGHT, BUT UNTIL THAT MOMENT, PLEASE LEAVE ME IN NIGHT."

GOOGIE "IT IS DONE AS YOU WISH, AWAY LIKE A MIST, REMEMBER THAT DOWN HERE IT'S ONLY YOUR BLISS!"
RETURN MY DEAREST, AND AWAY WITH MY FLIGHT, I SHALL REPLACE THIS LIGHT WITH YOUR NIGHT, THE WRONG
IS NOT RIGHT. IN THIS WORLD WHERE NIGHTMARES ARE TRUE, I WILL REMEMBER YOUR HEART  THAT IS SO BLUE.
HEAVEN I GO, I NOW TAKE MY FLIGHT, NO MATTER HOW DARK YOUR DREAMLAND, I WILL ALWAYS KEEP LIGHT."

GOOGIE RETURNS TO THE CRYSTAL CITY AND PLAYS HIS ROLE AS CUPID SO WITTY: CUPID
"RETURN DREAMLAND TO
PUPPY DOG TAILS, SUGAR AND SPICE, AND LITTLE GIRLS SO NICE, THAT WHICH IS WRONGED, NO LONGER HER
SONG, BRING SOMETHING GOOD OUT OF EVERYTHING MOANED. TINKLE, SPRINKLE, I FAIRY THIS DOVE, AND SEND
TO DREAMLAND THE WONDERS OF DEEP LOVE!"  
CUPID SPEAKS THE WORD "LOVE."    
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POOF*    THE BEGINNING