![]() The meeting ends oddly, with the Queen seeming to turn into a bespectacled sheep at counter as Alice passes into the next square on the board. When Alice finds this is hard to believe, the Queen responds that in her youth she could believe "six impossible things before breakfast" and counsels her to practice the same skill. The White Queen also claims to be over a hundred and one years old. She screams in pain until, rather then because, she pricks her thumb through her brooch, and she tells Alice of the King's messenger who has been imprisoned for a crime he will later be tried for and perhaps (but not definitely) commit in the end. The White Queen, curiously, lives backwards in time to a degree, due to the fact she lives through the eponymous looking glass. She does not meet the White Queen as a human-sized character until the fifth square. When Alice meets the Red Queen and joins the chess game, she takes the place of a white pawn (Lily) who is still too young to play. The Queen is looking for her daughter Lily Alice helps this by lifting the White Queen onto the table, leading her to believe she was thrown up by an invisible volcano. She first appears in the drawing room just beyond the titular looking-glass as an animate chess piece unable to see or hear Alice. The White Queen is one of the first characters to be seen in the story. ![]() 2.5 Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (2014).
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