"There's no 'we,'" Alice says, and now the tears are spilling down her face. "There can never be a 'we' again. It's not your fault, it's mine. Caterpillar told me -- the Queen was linked to me, so the King is linked to whoever I'm in love with. . . ." Oh God, she may have doomed him from the day they met on the riverbank. It was after that the King appeared as pale white with black hair. That thought's like a red-hot poker to her insides. "I fell in l-love with you. I brought you to Wonderland. I opened the door for him."