The Universe's Mixer

Oyster food! Fine, he had to admit, he loved it. It had always been a running joke in Wonderland, between he and his colleagues. They'd all heard of it, pizza and pasta and cookies and chicken wings. But to experience it? It was like magic! Well, nothing like magic, really. This ridiculous place was much more like magic. But he dealt with it.

He'd tried pizza with Zee, and it was, admittedly, wonderful. And there'd been other things since he arrived, though he had to admit, pizza was steadily becoming one of Hatter's favorite things ever. Basically, Alice, tea, and pizza. In that order. That didn't stop him from exploring, though!

So when he found himself in front of a little cart advertising the taco things, he figured why not? He'd try anything once. An attitude that had nearly killed him on occasion. Minor details. But they smelled good and if he liked them, he could drag Alice back and make her try them, too. And wouldn't that be brilliant?

Of course, then he'd have to study the person who ordered in front of him to make sure he was doing it right. And he'd have to hope the person ate it there, too, or he'd be completely lost on that, as well.

It was time to get back to work. Dinah didn't think she'd ever really be ready to get back to life as usual without Jake, but she had to do it anyway. In fact, she was overdue. If Eric had hurt anyone else while she'd been taking time to herself, that was on her head. And Dean feeling like he had to camp outside the Manor to protect her from something that she damn well needed to be protecting herself from was also a problem.

But before she called a meeting with the League, she needed to talk to Zee. She hadn't been purpopsely dodging the mystic's calls, but she really hadn't gone out of her way to talk anyone. She just hadn't been ready.

She still wasn't ready, but she missed her friend.

And more than that, she would need to talk to Zee before she brought Dean in on the war council. There was a history of dislike and misunderstandings between the two and she needed to at least try to convince Zee to call a temporary truce. She would deal with Dean too if he threw around any hostilities while acting as a guest at a meeting with her team.

Even if they might not want her as leader after she'd gone AWOL on them and had dropped the ball on things, they were still her team after all.

She had left Zee a message to know she was coming and now she stood outside of Shadowcrest and knocked. The house always put her a little bit on edge, since she didn't ever know what to expect from the sentient house. Much like the sentient City, it made her a little bit nervous.