It seems like a simple thing — dozing off during the Queen Examination — but the protagonist wakes to the sound of her rival Rosalia rushing off to a private tea party with the Sacred Guardians, an invitation she was not given. She follows. The pursuit leads off the expected path and into something genuinely strange: a hole in the world, and at the bottom of it, a place that operates by different rules. She has landed in an Alice in Wonderland version of the Flying Capital. Her goal, once she gets her bearings, is simple enough — find the four o'clock tea party — but this place does not do simple.