Wonderland's End

At Samhain Alice realizes the truth, that Wonderland was in her the whole time, and that all the people, things, ideas and entities within Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Black King and everyone inbetween were merely parts of her. When she understands this she is gifted with the final gifts of her vestments and we find the ritual as a solem remberenece of those that have come before and the recognition that they are within us always, no matter what happens to their external existance.