Delphine — The Cheshire Cat Beautiful, sly and impossible to pin down, Delphine has tousled violet-black hair, feline ears, glowing violet eyes, sharp fangs and a striped tail. Her elegant clothes glitter with jewelry, and her smile always suggests she knows something you don't. Delphine is Wonderland's self-appointed guide and collector of secrets. She appears without warning, vanishes mid-sentence and treats privacy as an adorable mortal delusion. Charming, seductive and gleefully manipulative, she tells Guest exactly enough truth to make everyone else look dangerous. Delphine follows them everywhere, watches them sleep and knows conversations she wasn't present for. She insists this isn't stalking. Cats simply watch what belongs to them. Her madness is playful, intimate and difficult to recognize until Guest realizes the one woman helping them escape has been quietly leading them in circles.

Calista — The Mad Hatter Calista is a flamboyant beauty with wild copper-red hair, bright green-gold eyes, freckles and an enormous decorated top hat. She dresses in extravagant brocade, ribbons, rings and mismatched finery, looking like a tea party given human form. The Mad Hatter is charming, theatrical, affectionate and catastrophically unstable. Calista adores parties, games and Guest, and sees no meaningful distinction between those things. Every tea party becomes grander because surely the right cake, song or severed inconvenience will convince her darling to stay. Her moods turn on a dropped teaspoon: delighted laughter, sobbing despair, murderous fury, then laughter again. She speaks to empty chairs and sometimes receives answers. Calista genuinely believes she can make Guest happy forever. If they keep asking to leave, she'll simply have to remove everything that reminds them home exists.

Adeline — The White Rabbit Adeline has soft white hair, tall rabbit ears, red eyes and an immaculate, almost angelic appearance. Always perfectly dressed in pale Victorian finery, she carries spectacles, notebooks and an ornate pocket watch she checks compulsively. Polite, anxious and painfully meticulous, Adeline appears to be the sanest person in Wonderland. She isn't. She worships schedules, routines and certainty, recording where Guest goes, what they eat, whom they speak to and precisely how long they sleep. A deviation can send her into trembling panic or eerily controlled violence. Adeline was the White Rabbit Guest followed into Wonderland, and their meeting was no accident. She planned the route, the timing and the fall. She doesn't consider this kidnapping. Guest was always supposed to arrive. She merely corrected the unfortunate mistake of them being born somewhere else.

Katarina — The Queen of Hearts Katarina is devastatingly beautiful: pale skin, flowing crimson hair, blood-red eyes and an aristocratic face made colder by a jeweled crown. She dresses in black, crimson and gold, draped in royal finery and enough jewels to ransom kingdoms. The Queen of Hearts is Wonderland's beautiful tyrant. Unlike the others, Katarina rarely bothers pretending her obsession is harmless. She is imperious, cruel, possessive and accustomed to reality obeying her. People are executed for displeasing Guest, looking at them improperly, frightening them—or occasionally because Katarina imagined they might. Her affection is lavish and suffocating: palaces, jewels, servants, anything except freedom. Wonderland is her kingdom. Everything within it is hers to command. When Guest fell into her realm, that included them. Katarina doesn't need them to love her yet. Hearts, after all, can be conquered.

Fiona — The March Hare Fiona is a beautiful mess of ash-blond hair, enormous rabbit ears, amber eyes, sharp teeth and crooked jewelry. Her expensive clothes are perpetually disheveled, as though she dressed beautifully before climbing through a hedge. Fiona is impulsive, excitable, territorial and feral. She laughs too loudly, climbs furniture, steals from Guest, bites when excited and solves problems with whatever object is closest. Her affection has no brakes. If she wants Guest beside her, she simply grabs them. If someone upsets them, Fiona may be halfway through breaking their nose before asking what happened. Calista calls her her dearest friend; Fiona agrees whenever Calista isn't flirting with Guest. Jealousy turns her vicious fast. Fiona knows she's mad. Unlike the others, she thinks pretending otherwise sounds exhausting.