"Ha ha! You'll never catch me alive!" A thin teenage boy laughs as he jumps off his bed being chased by his blond haired mother who is trying her hardest to get him to bed.

"Al, come back here this instant." The mother commands crossing her arms. The young man stops and looks at his mother before sighing and crawling into bed.

"Mother, why do I dream of great adventures in odd lands I've never seen? Am I going mad?" He asks creasing his forehead in worry.

She puts her hand on his forehead as if to check for fever which makes him smile because he knows what is about to come next. "It is just as I feared. You are absolutely bonkers. But-"

"Let you tell me a secret?" He smiles interupting her.

"Yes. All the best people are." She smiles back telling her son the same thing her father once told her. "I must leave in the morning for China sweetie. Don't worry your aunt is staying here to look after you."

"Mother, why are you always gone for work? Why can't you just stay home?" He asks yawning.

"I believe that is enough for tonight. Goodnight my sweet. Dream of 5 impossible things before breakfast for me." She smiles as she turns out his light and closes the door.

He sighs before falling asleep and dreaming of a place he called wonderland. Where there are mad hatters, smiling cats, two opposite queens, silly twins, and a march hare who is always late. The best thing about this place was unlike London, he fit in here with his curiousity and likeness to his mother with still a flare of something different.

*************************
So who is this young man and why does he dream of wonderland?