Thinking maybe he had been alone all this time, he was delighted to discover another who understood… But time would tell a different story from the warm, glowing fable young bumble painted upon spotting a comrade among the greedy swam.

His eyes closed, lips puckered, and he twitched from his ears to his knees before he muttered, “Let us speak no more of such things.”

I had no idea what accident Hatter spoke of, or that he had brothers at all.

I sat in uncertain silence, trying to remember my interview questions when suddenly, with a wild gleam in his eye, Hatter began to twitch. He let out a hysterical giggle as his body shook and shivered in waves.