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They suggest that Alice visits him and tries to comfort Tarrant, which she does by going to his hat house. They inform her that Tarrant Hightopp is acting madder than usual in wake that he believes that his family is still alive.

She re encounters Absolem, who urges her to quickly go to her friends, because 'he will be gone before long.' After falling through a door in the sky to the White Queen's Castle, she is greeted back by Mirana the White Queen, Nivins the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Mallymkun the Dormouse, Thackery the March Hare, Bayard the Bloodhound, Chessur the Cheshire Cat, and the Bandersnatch. Before they are able to open the door, however, Alice goes through the mirror and ends up in a mirrored office in Underland. Before she is able to pass through the mirror, however, her presence in the office is caught by some partygoers, who call Hamish and tries to invade the office and discover the intruder. When a blue butterfly lands in a flower, Alice's immediately recognizes it as Absolem, and follows him to a magical mirror in Lord Ascot's old office. After Alice refuses to, she secludes herself in a garden in the property. When she confronts Hamish about that, he accuses her of not being the right person for commanding the ship, despite her achievements, because she is a woman.ĭistraught by the situation, Alice argues with her mother, who tries to convince her daughter to conform to the society expectations about women. Alice realises that, despite three years having passed since she rejected his marriage offer, and the fact that is he now married to Alexandra, Hamish is still seeking revenge for Alice's attitude to him in the past. She also discovers that, while traveling the Orient, Hamish forced Alice's mother to sign a contract which determines that the only way for Alice to maintain the Wonder is by exchanging their house for the ship. For her great shock, he informs her that she isn't the captain of the ship anymore indeed, Hamish downgraded her to work as a simple secretary in the company. When she finally tries to discuss her new ideas for trading in the Orient, she discovers that Hamish has very different plans for her and the Wonder. Alice, however, is unaffected by their criticisms, and eventually re encounters Hamish, who is now married to a woman called Alexandra. Alice causes an immediate bad impression for wearing a colorful costume which she brought from China the partygoers, all Victorian people, and thus very ethnocentric, are shocked and offended by how Alice is dressed, with one even accusing her costume of belonging in a circus. That night, Alice and Helen attend Hamish's party. During a conversation in their house, in which Alice tells her mother about her adventures in the Orient, Helen informs her daughter that Hamish is giving a party in his property that night Alice immediately volunteers to go, despite not being invited, due to the need of discussing the plans for the future travels of the Wonder to the Orient. He informs her that, during her trip, Lord Ascot died, thus passing the ownership of the company to his son, Hamish, who is now Alice's new boss. Alice disembarks to reencounter her mother, Helen, waiting for her, and ends up meeting James Harcourt, a man who works in the trading company which owns her ship. One year later, the Wonder arrives in London. Although extremely dangerous, the plan eventually works, making the Malay pirates' ships to sink and the Wonder to safely sail out of there in direction of England. Alice, however, shuts off this possibility and fastly mentally draws a plan to take them from there without being caught by the pirates nor sinking the Wonder. The extreme circumstances that surround the Strait of Malacca, with its dangerous rock formations, and the high number of pirate ships surrounding the Wonder, mades the crew say to Alice that there is no hope and that they should surrender. As Alice and her crew are leaving the Strait of Malacca, their ship is attacked by Malay pirates. She is now the captain of Wonder, the ship which once belonged to her father. Alice Kingsleigh is in the second year of her travel through the Orient.

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