I did not mean this page to be so late- prep for my trip to Dragon*con kind of took over my weekend.
And I swear, stuff is about to start happening in this comic. The start is super slow, and needed to place Alice into the story. Knowing that, I had the prologue as a way to show that there is more then just a girl in an orchard. Which she will be out of in 3 pages.
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The people living within the Hearts province no longer bear their own hearts. Instead, strange mechanisms resembling wind-up clocks have been inserted into their chests by their feared Queen, who holds the only key to wind their lives longer.