There was a stammering and sputtering from the Three of Hearts as Logan pulled it out of hiding. Keller frowned at it. It seemed to be splotches with the same blue paint as the pawprints. The playing card finally squeaked out. "Don't tell Her Majesty! I was just trying to help!"
"Help who?" Keller demanded. "Help what?" The Three of Hearts did not seem surprised to see them, but then nothing in Wonderland seemed likely to be surprising. It was an even stranger place than Atlantis, and dangerous in its own way.
"They're just kittens," stammered the Three of Hearts. "I tried to hide them in the storage closet during the procession, but they've wandered off and the paint has spilled, and the Queen will have my head!"
He looked rather pathetic on the one hand, but on the other the Queen of Hearts was the worst kind of dictator by all accounts, and hiding her enemies (which seemed to be anyone she took a dislike to) was brave. She looked to her team leader. "We can find the kittens," she said. "Maybe Shamara and Paul can help him clean up?"