The Great Plans and Designs of Life

The Queen of Hearts did not know what struck her to insist that she should stay here—or rather say that she would go along with the Time Man's desires and relax for a while. Perhaps it was just exhaustion, it was perhaps a little over a month since she had arrived back and changed her fate, but the new changes brought their own complications.

"If you stare at the cupcake, I'm afraid it might explode."

"Such an inane thing to say," she replied with a disbelieving smile. There were a lot of changes happening even here, or perhaps the more appropriate term was revelation. Things that she did not know in the past were being brought to light, information that perhaps were unnecessary to her in her own assessment, maybe?