SnowOz

"Don't run far off and come back early!!"

"Okay Mommy!" shouted Alice.

'So, hello guys! I am Alice, and this is the 2nd week since my family moved to here, in Mussoorie As you would know, it snows a lot in Mussoorie, and I like snow! I am super excited to live here!'

'You are probably thinking - "Does this girl not miss her old place or friends at all?" And yeah I don't really. I didn't have any proper friends back in my previous school anyway. Also, Delhi is not as a fun place as one would think. I like snow more!'

'So, today is another day of my investigation of this new place I am in. In these few days, I have.....OHH STOP!'

Alice shook her head a few times. ' I am on it again! I shouldn't think to myself as if I am talking to others' Alice thought and walked towards an alley.

"Huh!?" Alice's steps came to a halt.

"Was it there yesterday? Where does it lead to anyway?" She wondered while looking towards a tunnel.

Alice got curious about the mysterious tunnel. it seemed to Alice so out of place in a background full of snow.

She couldn't help as her feet drew towards the tunnel.

The tunnel was dark and big but its passage wasn't too long and Alice soon found herself at the other end in a minute.

The place she arrived at was full of snow and big fern trees. It was so normal yet it also felt very magical.

The sky, the snow, the trees, and even the little snowman far on the side made the view breathtaking.

'Wait! A Snowman!'

Yeah, a snowman. It was built a near distance from where Alice stood. And as Alice said earlier she liked snow and so she also liked snowmen very much.

In Alice's own words - Who could ever get bored of them!

She ran in the direction of the snowman in excitement. She stretched her hands to touch it.

"STOP!" a voice shouted. Alice's hands froze midway.

"Don't you dare touch me with your dirty hands!" the rude little voice said again. 

Alice was shocked. The snowman was talking! She stood still thinking for a few moments, then asked "Are you Olaf from Frozen?"

"I am not any dumb Olaf, my name is Olas!" said the snowman Olas, obviously filled with pride for its name.

Alice became very mad. She liked Olaf a lot. 'How dare he call Olaf dumb!' 

Alice calmed herself down and said "Yeah! How can you be Olaf? He is much cuter than you!"

"How can you be so rude for a 15-year-old girl?!!" Olas said greeting his nonexistent teeth in anger.

"Well........" Alice searched for a way to retaliate. She didn't want to lose to a stupid snowman who called Olaf dumb!

At the end, she said, "How can you be talking as a snowman?" That was all she could find.

"Well, this is SnowOz Land. We all talk here by the grace of the Wicked Witch of the East" Olas said.

"Wicked? She is called wicked yet she did grace to you?"

"Don't sweat on the details!"

"I am not sweating!"

And then there was a minute of awkward silence because of Alice's dumb reaction.

"Hahahaha!" Soon they both laughed out loud.

Although Alice was also laughing at herself she ached to change the topic. So she asked - "You said that you all talk here. What do you mean be 'all', I only see you here?"

"No, I am not alone here. Look around, the snow also talks."

Hearing that Alice was surprised and immediately looked around. Looking closely, she indeed saw some snowflakes talking to each other. She tried to listen to them.

"You won't be able to hear them because you aren't from the same world," Olas told Alice.

"Then why can I understand you?"

"That's because I am big in size and have more magic in me. Also, your weird ability to accept all this plays an important role too."

After a while of thinking Alice looked at the snowman with a strange look in her eyes. "Can your hat, buttons, and carrot talk too?"

Olas was amused. "No, they can't. That's like you can talk but your clothes can't."

Hearing the explanation Alice nodded with understanding. Then she suddenly asked "You just said that this world is different than mine, so how come I could enter here? Is that tunnel some sort of portal?"

"You could call it that, but the entrance only appears once a year, and it would close again after sunset. It was only one in a million chance that you could enter here."

"Oh! Then I am so lucky. I wanna see your world." Alice loved adventure.

Hearing that the snowman suddenly became serious. "You shouldn't," he said.

"The ones that leave their world for too long lose their connection. People start forgetting them and their souls lose the place they belonged to, they drift far away. That's why you should leave here before sunset." It felt like the snowman had experienced what he just said.

Alice became a little scared but she was also sad. She had long forgotten about her silly little fight with Olas and wanted to know him more and become good friends with him. Alice was lost in her thoughts.

"Ah! You should leave, sunset is near." Olas's reminder pulled Alice back to reality and she became more sad after learning that sunset came so soon.

She thought of something and asked timidly " Can I come visit you next year?" She was afraid of getting a negative answer.

Olas was taken aback but soon replied with alacrity "Yeah, you can!"

Alice cheered up. She bid her farewell to Olas and the snowflakes and ran towards the tunnel. She looked back once again and smiled at them with happiness.

After getting back home that night Alice kept thinking about her day's experiences.

"I feel like I have become Alice, the one from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I wonder whether today was a dream or dream-like reality."

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