Alice discussion

(( Okay you guys, just pick a place to wake up. ))

Ryder opened his eyes slowly to find himself in a forest. He rubbed his head and tried to figure out what had happened. As he blinked the 'forest' became clearer and as it became clearer he noticed something about it was very off....

Ella groaned as her eyes fluttered open. Something was digging into her back uncomfortably. She must have fallen asleep while writing and that had to be her pen. But her mattress wasn't wooden. She sat up and found herself on a table. Spoons, knifes, teacups, napkins, and biscuits were strewn about.

Ryder got up with some difficulty, having worn pretty tight jeans; not the best idea for an outdoor expedition. What had he been thinking?

Ella shook grains of sugar out of her hair and stood up. No one was around the tea party. That's what she assumed this was. Her denim cutoffs were stained with jelly, and her sequined Converse squeaked on the slightly damp grass. Where was she?

((Haha I wore sequin converse to homecoming!!))
Ryder shook off dirt and wondered how long he was out. He looked around...

(( girl, I'm too hipster for homecoming. I wear those everyday ))

((Haha I wear converse everyday too, but being a spoiled bargin shopper I actually have 9 pairs that I switch between.))

Ryder think back to the last thing he can remember. His brain make the connection and he remembers doing some things he should and running away from authority figures afterwards. Than he blacked out and was... Here.

A tinkling melody floated across the scene. A music box was sprawled on the ground playing its soft tune. Ella took out her phone. She tried powering it one, but her iPhone screen remained blank.

Ryder though he heard something in the distance. Music maybe? He hoped so, because music meant people and people meant that he wasn't alone in this mess. He started walking briskly in the direction of the soft sounds.

Arrow wakes up slowly, the cold air licking at her nose. She opens her eyes and sees two eyes staring at her, she screams and rolls over. The next thing she notices is free fall. She then hits the ground with a grunt. She looks up, she was in a tree.... a tree where though....

Victoria's eyes remained closed as her hand grazed a soft material on the ground beside her. She moved her hand over it several times, trying to decide what this was. She opened her eyes slowly, the light blinding her at first. Her eyes focused and unfocused, trying to understand what she was looking at. She moved her pale, icy blue eyes over to what her hand had been feeling that whole time. A soft blanket laid, billowing around her. She moved her head so she was looking at her side, feeling the blanket move around her head. She tried to move her back, but was instantly yanked back down. She had a little gasp of surprise come from her mouth that had been closed for that whole couple seconds that seemed like a normal morning in bed. She looked to her hand again, this time noticing something that she hadn't seen there before. Her hand was bound by a rope. It appeared that she had been there for a while now. Her wrist had a slight indent from the rope, she noticed, trying to yank herself out of the binds. There across the blanket was a pair of sharp scissors, endetailed in a silver lines, curling up the sides. Her hand was just barely an inch out of reach. She tried to stretch her hand, but nothing seemed to prevail the dire situation she had come to see herself in. She tried to lift her legs, but to no prevail it seemed that her legs were bind also. She finally in a rasp voice called out into the air that seemed so distilled and forgotten that dust emitted from her mouth as she spoke "Help!," A muffled voice that she recongized as her own said.

Ryder started to hear more sounds in the woods, a muffled voice, a snap of twigs.

Arrow lets out a painful sigh. She tries to get up but her leg throbs. She lets out another scream and forces herself up.

Ryder jumps another scream. "What is this place?" He whispered, freezing in place at the sounds.

Arrow holds onto her arm which also hurts, blood running down her cheek. That doesn't stop her from moving, she starts to try to get away from the tree and the eyes....

Victoria hears voices across the other door leading out of this deranged room. If only she could reach the pair of scissors across the expanse that seemed to torture its predecessors. She kicked with her leg first, trying not to overly panic and dramatize things for her. She closed her eyes and took a shaky breath, trying not to look out at the only tiny little window at all in the room. The room seemed too small for comfort, the window was tiny and the door seemed even tinier. She opened her eyes again and reached again, drawing blood on her right wrist, trying to reach the scissors that would prove vital to her survival wherever she was. She scraped a hopeful touch with her fingertips, but the hope faded as the scissors spun away from her, she let out a dark groan of agony as the blood welled on the rope and the scissors were scooted farther away. She banged her head silently on the blanket, not doing much pain as it was softened by the blanket. It was almost as if it was deisgned to comfort and torture at the same time.

Ella froze as she heard footsteps and screams in the woods bordering the tea party. Were others here, too? They could help her!

((*Glomps Halle* HALLE!!!!))

Arrow hears something.... music? She starts moving a little faster, "Help...." He groans.

(( Missed ya, pretty! ))

Ella stepped lightly away from the safety of her table. She had definitely heard someone out there. "Hello?" she called softly. "Can you help me?"

((MISSED YA TOO!!!! Kate misses Waverly too.... lol. But right now, they're in a house where it's going to kill them, nice right? (the rp with Jason. XD)))

Arrow hears this and steps through the clearing, landing on her knees. She looks up to see a girl.

(( I'm not even attempting to catch up. -.-))

Ella's tawny eyes widened at the sight of another girl. "Hello." she said softly, conjuring up her friendliest voice. "Do you know where I am?"

((Haha, want me to give you a catching up thing? I pulled along your charrie just in case. :3 ))

Arrow sighs, "no.... I was hoping you'd know...."

Ella let the sparkle fade from her eye. "This is perfectly horrid." She looked miserably at the girl. "You just woke up here as well?"

Arrow nods and grunts, "I woke up in a tree." She does a disapointed face, "I fell out...."

Ella laughed in spite of the situation. "I woke up with a fork in my back and jam in my hair. I guess I got the more delicious shock." She grinned at the girl. "I'm Ella. Ella Stone."

Arrow smiles, "That's interesting.... I'm Arrow Yagami...."

Ella was going to reply, but her attention snapped to a ripple in the hair. "Did you see that?" she asked Arrow. "It was a cat, I think."

Arrow shivers, "A cat?"

Ella nodded distractedly. She tried to think back to the numerous novels she consumed. "Floating cats, tea parties.." she murmured to herself. Her eyes widened and she locked eyes with Arrow. "Arrow.."

Arrow looks at her, "what?" She asks trying to get to her feet.

"Do you read at all?" Ella asked hurriedly. "It sounds stupid, but this seems familiar, like something out a book." she prompted. She had never like giving people the answers. She would help until they drew the conclusion themselves.

(I'm thinking they'll find out Wonderland is real, but twisted. ))

Arrow sighs, "Never had the chance...." She sighs remembering her past. ((Sounds good. :) ))

Ella sighed, relenting. "Lewis Carol wrote Alice in Wonderland half intoxicated. It was filled with talking animals, distorted humans, and floating cats with evaporation skills." She studied Arrow with her toffee eyes looking for a spark of recognition.

Arrow looks at her, "Are you saying we're in a book?"

(( gtg pretty. My bed beckons.. ))

((haha, ok. Talk ta ya later.))

Ella shook her head. "It's more elaborate than that. I'm saying we're in Wonderland." At Arrow's frown she added. "Lewis Carrol could have written from personal experience." Her eyes lit up. "That means he got out of here!" Her mind was going a mile a minute, not bothering to question her hypothesis.

Arrow watches her, maybe she should run....

Ella snapped out of her mind. "Unless I'm an idiot wanting to believe I'm in a book." She sulked back to the tea party and took a sip out of the tea cup in front of her. Just the way she like it: mostly milk with a lot of sugar.

Arrow looks at her, "Are we the only ones?"

Echo opened her eyes, a white lace mask covered her eyes, she was in a grand palace covered in white. The white queen strolled past her and said "hello", bowing Echo felt the need to polietly say "Your highness".

Seeing a bright light, she ran towards the door, it lead out to a garden. She was wearing a beautiful white dress that she was wearing to her sisters wedding before she came to this strange place. She had beautiful heels, with diamond jewlery and white gloves including a lace frill on the wrist. Her hair was elegently wrapped up into a loose bun to the side of her head.

The garden got deeper and it turned into a forest. She heard the light clink of tea cups in one direction, screams of 'off with his head', in the other and straight ahead was music.

She was rather thirsty so she went the direction of the clinking teacups.

'I wonder if there are others here' she thought to herself

Ella shrugged, still put out. She told Arrow, "I'd assume so, unless you've seen or heard anyone else."

Ella heard more light footsteps outside of their sanctuary. "Hello?" she called out. She looked at Arrow. "Maybe they could help us."

Arrow shrugs, "Maybe...."

"Hello?" Echo called back.
She followed the sound of the voice.

Ryder walked for a while, coming to an empty clearing. He was alone and exhausted so he scaled a tree with some skill and fell asleep in the branches.

((Haha; putting him away for the weekend! ;))

Echo walked into a beautiful garden "A tea party, how splendid" She lingered in the doorway. "Atleast I'm dressed for the occasion, the White Queen was wearing almost an identicle dress to mine"

Ella blinked at the girl. "The White Queen?" she asked. She spun on Arrow. "Ha! I told you this was Wonderland!" she exclaimed. She turned her golden gaze to the girl and asked, "You live here?"

Victoria almost had the urge to yell out again into the air, but only knew her voice would make dust bellow from her mouth. She struggled against the ropes uselessly. Her mouth was dry and ached for the feel of water going down her throat. She saw a girl outside the window. It appeared she was talking to herself. Victoria tried to yell out into the air, making dust spill out of her mouth. She begged her lungs to free herself of this madness and continued to try, only muffling her voice more. She banged her head against the blanket again, hoping to make some kind of noise. She was feeling the panic in her gut and she wanted to cry. Free of this frustration that was continuselssly building inside of her.