Alice pinched herself, after all, she was only dreaming. "Ouch! Bugger." She mumbled under her breath. It hadn't worked; she was still seeing the peculiarly dressed man in the same meadow. He hadn't taken notice of her yet however, she had been lying in the tall grass daydreaming and now she had the advantage of a hiding place. The man was wearing a yellow waistcoat with a black tie and a red jacket and trousers, from her distance Alice could see him checking his pocket watch. The most peculiar thing though was the mask he was wearing. He appeared to be a well dressed man wearing the most lifelike white rabbit mask Alice had ever seen. For just spending a lazy day in the meadow of a public park she felt severely underdressed in her blue jeans, red sneakers and light blue baby-tee.
She felt silly for hiding from the man, sure he looked like a bit of an eccentric but probably not dangerous. Just in case she kept her hand in her pocket with her pepper spray, better safe than sorry. She stood up. "Hello there stranger!" She called out as she stood up.
The rabbit-man gave a shriek and bolted away from Alice. "No wait! I didn't mean to startle you!" She called as she ran after him, forgetting all caution in the chase. "Come back!"
She was almost thirty feet away when he seemingly disappeared. She stopped herself just in time to not fall into a massive deep looking hole in the middle of the path. The poor stranger probably hadn't even seen the hole. She lowered herself to her hands and knees and crawled toward the edge. "Helloooooo!" She yelled into the hole. "Helloooo,! lloooo!, ooooo!" her own voice echoed back. "He might be hurt." She muttered.
She slipped her legs into the hole and used protruding tree roots like a ladder. "It can't be very far down. Hopefully he's not too injured to climb. Oh! It's getting darker in here." Alice looked above her to see the hole appeared to be shrinking, like the closing of a great mouth. "No!" She began to panic at the thought of being buried alive and scrambled back towards the top, but no matter how much closer she got to the hole it just became smaller faster. In the now near-darkness Alice reached for the next tree root rung and slipped. She could feel herself
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It seemed to be taking such a long while that Alice felt herself stop panicking. A purplish colored light glowed faintly beneath her and it was then that she realized she had somehow been turned right side up. She was inside the purplish glow almost as soon as she was out of it and into indigo, then blue, then green, then yellow, then orange, the red, and then white light illuminated the room below her. The room held a glass table, a fireplace, a few plush looking chairs and a door sized for a small child. Alice looked up at the massive hole she had just fallen through to see a whitewashed ceiling with a small but ornate chandelier that was currently unlit and not a trace of evidence that a massive hole had ever been there. "Looks like there's no turning back." Alice said to no one in particular as the room had no one else in it. She decided first that she'd try for the door.