PictureBook – ‘Loki through the Looking Glass’ by Benamon Tame

Ohhhhhh Benamon, how we adore your creativity! Benamon has done it again, he has created another wonderful piece for to his PictureBook Column, once again bursting with creativity and imagery both in words and pictures – thank you Benamon.

The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)…

‘The Door to Toy Land had been closed but thanks to
the efforts of Babel other paths had been found.
Loki stood before the mirror and spoke the words he
had been given, the parting words
from the mayor of Toy Land still cutting into his thoughts and filling his own words with a
bitter strength.
The Book would have worked but Wonderland was different and stood closer to its border.
The last word was laid and for the first time since
it was closed, a breeze moved through
the Lost Toy Room and carried with it the scent of
wet earth and burnt air, blood and
roses.
Loki stood his ground as his reflection fled and in
its place a new way twisted open.

Loki through the Looking Glass shows the moment when he made contact with Wonderland following his defeat and rout from Toy Land. Once Loki had consolidated his control of the Lost Toy Room he turned his thoughts to Toy Town as a way to escape the room and expansion. But the air of corruption and madness already upon them like plague bearers and they were turned back from the gates. Underestimating their strength , Loki turned back and tried force but his siege was broken and he was cast back into the Toy Room and the way sealed against them by the Mayor of Toy Town himself.

Rejected and defeated, Loki turned to Babel who had been working on the incantations used by Ariadne and her followers to flee into the walls.

Altering the charms, Babel was able to change the focus of the incantations and through them he was now able to enter the stories held in each book. The library would be the key to countless realms for Loki to subjugate and gather a greater force to return to Toy Land.

The first Book chosen was Alice in Wonderland, Loki saw in the Queen of Hearts a kindred spirit who join his cause, and an expedition led by the fighting frog Leopold was sent into the mirror bearing Loki’s offer of alliance. None have returned.