Alice found herself chuckling a bit, her mood already lifted by Hatter's eccentricity. She hadn't allowed herself to remember how it had been in the old days, before the fire, before the Queen, but having him here made the memories much less painful. "New clothes sound wonderful," Alice admitted, tugging at her tattered apron, "and a bubble bath sounds even more so." She looked about herself at the trees, having noticed the glitter of gold and the sparkle of diamond leaves earlier. "Really" she asked. "With how abundant they are, I wouldn't have thought them to be terribly valuable." She wasn't going to complain; that just made things convenient, something Alice hadn't been familiar with for a long time.

At the explanation of the Heartless, Alice frowned. They did sound like something the Queen would come up with, but from the sounds of it, she wasn't here. "It sounds as if I could do with a blade while I'm here," she replied. "Is there any chance I might acquire a decent one in the city? Or a croquet mallet, perhaps?" Truth be told, Alice was afraid of fighting outside of a hallucination, but if it came to life or death, she would fight tooth and nail.