… And which way is the labyrinth? Is it fence-wards?

He really hopes the landing doesn't hurt.

The sides closest to the labyrinth are the dirt path and the fence, both of which run up to its corner. 

The landing does not, in fact, hurt. He drifts gently downwards to land no more heavily than if he had fallen or jumped a couple of feet. 

He makes sure not to trip or something and looks around for the rabbit.

Parasol unfurled above her, she floats out of the empty blue sky above them and lands next to Dante, as lightly as a feather. 

"Um, so...welcome to Wonderland?"

"… I don't think I caught your name and if you have a 'top ten list of warnings for Wonderland' I would really like to hear that."

"I'm the White Rabbit," she says, as if it's an answer to his question. The capital letters are practically audible; it might in fact be her name.

"And you are?"

"Dante –"

He pauses.

He squints a little.

She is oblivious. "Pleased to meet you, Dante! Welcome to Wonder - oops, I already said that." 

A sudden ringing from her apron pocket startles her, and she jumps at least a foot into the air.

"Oh no! I'm late!"

"– Late for what? And is there a way out of here?"

"I have to get back to work, in the palace," she explains hurriedly, gesturing in the direction of its tall towers.

"There are ways to get out, but most of them require magic of some kind. I don't think you could fit through the tunnels, so you'd have to ask the Queen - or Everless the Raven might know if there's a non-magical way - look, I should really go now, I'm sorry."

"Can I come with?"

"I...suppose so," she says, somewhat dubious.

"Follow me, then!"

And without further ado, she bounds off in the direction of the labyrinth.

He starts off after her!

Hopefully he can keep up, because she's going at quite a speed, and isn't going to slow down for him.

At the entrance to the labyrinth, she takes a small card, about the size and shape of a playing card, out of her pocket and waves it at some topiary cut in the shape of an oversized horse's head.

"He's with me," she says, waving a paw vaguely behind her in the presumed direction of Dante.

Dante can be found there! (Dante really wishes he had done more running before all this.)

He continues to follow.

They enter the labyrinth.

The White Rabbit navigates its many twists and turns and junctions with more confidence than she has displayed in her interactions with Dante thus far, barely pausing once. Their path winds around the palace, which appears first on one side and then the other above the high hedges. 

Is that the sound of footsteps coming from the other side of the hedge on their right? 

… It sounds it! Dante is just following the rabbit, though, and will try to keep away from the hedge while still doing that.

They keep going through the labyrinth. It feels, from the inside, like it's bigger than it looked from above. 

The unseen footsteps - which, with continued exposure, are beginning to sound less like normal footsteps - continue to pace them on their right, despite them going past several openings and turnings on that side. 

After a while, the footsteps are joined by a low, rumbling growl. 

"– Why is there something chasing us?" hisses Dante.

She jumps, and looks around wildly.

"I can't see any - eep!" 

The growling gets louder.

"I think the labyrinth guard forgot to tell the rest of them not to hunt you!"

"They wouldn't politely listen if I told them, would they!"

"I don't know! This has never happened before!"

She hunches down on the path, trembling.

"Oh dear oh dear oh dear..." 

"– Should I run away?" he hisses, trying not to be so audible.

"There's no point, they're all through the labyrinth - and you don't know the way out - "

The White Rabbit is taking her own advice and not going anywhere.

The growling now seems to be coming from the hedges on both sides, and is getting closer, as if it is coming through the foliage towards them. 

"… I don't have malicious intent?" he says, aloud – maybe they can hear him?

He also starts to raise his hands.