Chapter 33 - Alice

“If you don't want to have your legs hurting for a week, now's your time to get away.” Alice murmured to Thea, humorously, before speaking to her daughter again “I'm coming, darling... Oh.” She stopped, almost tripping over a piece of string lying on the grass “I guess the kite we made last week left this world a long time ago, huh?” Alice laughed under her breath, watching the race track that Millie had marked out using string and some popsicle sticks, in crooked lines, but still making her intention clear.

“It’s a race track! Just like in the book!” her daughter announced, coming skipping along while Massimo followed closely behind her “So we can race! Hoppy will be the hare, because he is a rabbit!” She nodded, as if she had spent some time thinking about it “And we're going to be the turtles. But, everything will be fine, because t