Alice crossed the glass once as a child and survived by refusing to obey the world she found there.

She returned home believing the story finished. It was not.

Something followed — not a creature, not a memory, but a presence that would not fade. A warning she had never understood.

A name she could not forget. For years she tried to ignore it. Curiosity became unease. Unease became resolve.

Now grown, no longer protected by innocence or polite reality, Alice stops resisting.

She does not flee the call. She answers it.

Alice steps back through the Looking-Glass and into the Tulgey Wood —

Not to escape the world she knows, but to confront the truth that has waited for her since childhood.

The Bandersnatch does not run.

It stays just ahead.