Feeling a bit better now, so here is the start of another multi-chapter. Just a quick intro chapter.
It was all going according to plan.
Well, as much as anything ever went according to plan in Laura Hollis life.
They—Laura, Perry, LaF, and Carmilla—packed up as quick as humanly possible and ran as fast from Silas University as their feet could take them.
"Come on, we can make it to the nearest real town by sunup if we hurry!" Laura urged her friends.
"I really don't think this is necessary." LaF grumbled. "I'd really rather see what that fish god is, up close, and without my mind being drained."
"I hate to admit it but I think Su- Lafontaine." Perry was still stumbling over actually accommodating her friend's choice of name. "Is right. Aren't we being a little rash? With that… unfortunate underground occurrence, that was probably mostly cave gas exaggerating what we really saw, behind us I'm certain the university will be back to normal soon."
Laura was too busy weaving between the thick crags of the mountainside to even roll her eyes at that.
"Normal was already kidnapping girls and libraries swallowing students whole. None of us are safe there. Don't worry about it. Betty already agreed to help us transfer schools, she has some friends or something that helped her sudden move to Princeton."
Laura's sheer tiny-ness was an advantage in one small way at least: She could navigate the mountains outside of Silas in ways none of her other friends could. Unfortunately, it just left her needing to wait for the other girls to catch up. She had just pushed between a crag and slid, deliberately, down a small slope before realizing none of the other three could fit.
"Darn it. Okay, you three circle around. There's a path on the left, I'll wait for you."
"Can do Hollis." LaF shouted back. They and Perry disappeared behind the rocks, following her directions.
"Where did Carm go?" Laura wondered to herself.
She began to jog towards where she could meet her other two friends when they got down. However the diminutive girl never made it there.
With a sudden sharp sensation of pain in the back of her head, Laura Hollis fell unconscious.
"Oh my bloody Tardis…"
Upon reaching consciousness the first thing Laura was greeted with was an agonizing pain headache.
"Where the hell am I?"