Into Wonderland
The first thing Dawn noticed in the world she just stepped in was the peculiarity of everything around her. Flowers had faces and bugs were miniature rocking horses. She had to take frequent stops since her body was oddly still only that of a three-year-old even if her mind wasn't quite that young anymore, but she only had to walk for an hour to stumble upon large looming white gates.
A guardsman dressed in armor Dawn thought would be better suited to a chessboard came from behind the gates and opened it as she was close enough to touch it. Dawn walked forward and peered around at the beautiful orchard with white flowering trees and ran smack dab into a fluffy cat.
"Oh! I'm sorry. I didn't mean to run into you."
"Ah yes, we often don't mean to run into anything but still, some do. Now, you are new, is your name by any chance, Alice?" said the cat as it floated around her head with a grin that Dawn expected to split its face completely in two.
"No, terribly sorry, my name is Dawn." Dawn wished dearly to take a step back from the cat but stayed put. She felt as though if she were to give up ground to such a creature, something not very nice would come of it.
The cat landed on Dawn's pitch black hair, "Hmm, and so it is. You may call me the Cheshire Cat."
"Alright, Mr. Cheshire Cat." The cat seemed to weigh nothing upon her head, and the only way she knew it was there was how she could feel its tail swishing just behind her.
Dawn continued on her way towards the white castle and she greeted all of the trees on the way, each tacking ten minutes to say hello to. Once she arrived at the front door, which was quite a large door indeed, Dawn was greeted by the white queen.
The queen invited her to stay a while and Dawn decided she wished to accept. The White Queen, for that was her name, was a kind and gentle soul. Dawn had plenty of fun playing around the castle, especially when Cheshire Cat came to play hide and seek. Dawn always had to try extra hard to find him whenever he was hiding.
Eventually, there was a weird day and a young girl came to the White Queen's castle, and her name was Alice.
Alice and Dawn got along swimmingly. They played together for days; hide and seek, tea parties with the Mad Hatter, playing hopscotch with Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, painting the Red Queen's roses red, and many more adventures. However, the fun didn't last forever and Alice, one day, never came back.
Dawn was heart broken at her disappeared friend, wanting once more to play with another young girl. Though not was all bad once Alice was gone, for Dawn found someone else she also enjoyed spending plenty of time with. The Mad Hatter was a favorite tea time companion of Dawn's along with the Hare and the Dormouse.
It took a period of years until Dawn finally got the Cheshire Cat, who often rested on her head, to teach her to evaporate and to use the neither space, space which was neither here nor there.
Dawn filled three whole notebooks full of drawings, journal entries, pictures, and trinkets of nearly everything she saw and everyone she met. She even had another notebook filled solely with names with a short blurb of what she had learned from them along with a small picture so she would always have it on hand.
She remembered painting the white roses to red with Alice at the red queen's castle, had beautifully mad tea parties at the Mad Hatter's and learned a bit about potions from the white queen. A few years in Wonderland saw the Mad Hatter even making her a hat, which was an overly large straw cowboy hat that was wrapped with a red silk band that dangled much like the Hatter's hat though fit with a pair of very sharp white feathers. It was too large for Dawn's head and so it looked very cute, causing the White Queen to gush over how adorable Dawn looked since the hat simply engulfed Dawn's little head.
"Hatter, why did you make me such a big hat?" Dawn finally asked, having pushed up the brim of the cowboy hat for the umpteenth time that day as it had slipped over her eyes.
"It's not too big for your head, its perfect!" The Mad Hatter exclaimed with an exaggerated nod.
Dawn was very confused. "But it keeps slipping over my eyes?"
The Mad Hatter gave a twirl, his coattails flapping around him. "You'll fit into just fine eventually! It will just take a little bit of time!" The Hatter smiled brightly at Dawn and gave her a little boop to the nose with his finger.
Now, Dawn understood. It wasn't meant to fit perfectly right this moment, it was meant to fit once she was older and an adult which Dawn suspected would be a very, very long time from now.
After thanking the Mad Hatter for the gift, Dawn was given a very special pocket watch by the white rabbit. The pocket watch had then been modified by the Jabberwockie, who was a nice fellow when he wasn't upset or his nap interrupted. The pocket watch had three faces: one showed how old she actually was, one how old her body was since it seemed to stop growing, and one showed the actual time and date of whatever world she was currently in.
She also had her hair styled by the jabberwockie until the raggedy lion's mane it normally was, turned into natural curls. The jabberwockie even seemed to enjoy eating the benign curse that had attached itself to her hair, apparently a curse given to her family line generations back. A curse that gave all of the people in her family the crazy and untamable hair she had previously sported.
With time so different in Wonderland, Dawn barely noticed it pass her by since everything just blended together while no one seemed to age a day. She stayed in Wonderland for well over a hundred years, most of it just seeming to pass by in the blink of an eye as time moved unnaturally for its inhabitants. Then, she felt it was finally time to leave when she looked at her pocket watch one day and saw that it read her age at 183 with her body only at four years old. Dawn hugged everyone goodbye before stepping into a portal headed for a new world.