LIBRA
The only reason I was able to sleep that first night on my own was due to the fact I had never been that exhausted in my entire life.
The next morning was much the same as the first, a lot of stumbling and blindly following.
It was getting dark when something finally changed. He slowed down and dropped to the ground and got very near me waving me on with his little claws. The trees were growing thicker on all sides now. A path was emerging.
It was very dark now and the trees were so thick on either side it was like a solid wall. No wait! It was a solid wall! I whipped around a solid wall of trees greeted me.
Ahead of me was only a dark tunnel. It was then I realized my guide had disappeared.
I started to panic. I was trapped. That stupid little creature had lead me into a tunnel that I couldn't get out of.
The panic adrenalin sharpened everything and gave me a burst of energy and I sprinted off down the tunnel not thinking just feeling desperation. I had to get to the end.
There! I could see a pin prick of light up ahead! Tiny as it was it gave me hope.
I reached it and realized it was a keyhole. I felt around for a knob but there was none to be found. That's odd.
My heart skipped a beat. It couldn't be.
I pressed my eye to the keyhole. I couldn't see very much but it appeared to be a large room.
I drew away with a gasp. It was the hall of beginnings.
This was a legend even among wonderlanders! It was said that this was the place that Wonderland had begun, the place the Cheshire cat was born.
The only mortal to ever come through here and live was Alice. Now it was going to be my way out………If I could find a way into the room.
The light was making my eyes water and I blinked.
"Ah! Don't do that! I'm going to….ah-ah-AH"
I backed away, not far enough. "CHOO!" I was sent hurdling through the now open door onto a very hard floor.
I got up quickly and looked around. It was a square room with a black and white checkered floor and a piano in one corner. There was also a table with a drink on it. I knew better than to drink it.
The way I had come was through a large door that seemed to be scowling slightly at me.
"Oh no not another one," It groaned.
"I'm sorry to have disturbed you, who else has come through here?"
"Nobody," it answered.
"Oh my mistake, what else has come through here?" The key was all in asking the right questions, and of course depending on if they feel like telling you.
"Well since I was installed, a boy, an old man, a girl, and something else."
"Describe the 'something else' if you please."
"A shadow without anything attached." The door said simply. "It was most frightening, it made the room all wrong and I presume you've only come to make it worse."
"I would never do that I promise."
"But it won't stop me," there was a whispery light voice coming from behind me and it made my stomach all queasy and the room spin and I hadn't even see it yet.
"OH GOOD CHAOS IT'S STILL HERE! GET OUT!" The door started freaking out and shaking the whole place.
I spun around to see it and the door had been right, it was a lot like a shadow with nothing to cast it. The only thing that set it apart was the fact that it was standing upright.
My eyes widened and I could feel my pulse quicken to panic mode. I don't know why but it was so clearly dangerous, there was not a lot that could freak out a door that had been here since the beginning of Wonderland.
Behind me the door started wailing and the wind picked up, it pulled me off my feet and there was nothing to hold on to. The shadow didn't seem to be affected but it grabbed my arm giving me a nice long gash and ripping up my sleeve." I cried out as I was swept upwards and everything went dark. Everything was upside down in a moment; gravity seemed to switch directions and although there was no more wind I was falling up at an alarming pace.
Furniture floated all around me but I couldn't seem to catch hold of any and my arm was throbbing and I could feel the warm sticky blood dripping off my fingertips into the darkness below.
I was starting to lose consciousness when I finally saw a speck of light above me and my assent, (or was it decent?) slowly decreased.
Suddenly I was above ground. I had fallen out a hole and gravity resumed its natural pull and I fell to the ground, on top of my arm. That hurt pretty badly and I screamed.
Wherever I was now it was raining pretty hard. There was thunder and lightning to.
Wait a moment. My mind took a moment to catch up. I had just fallen up out of the entrance to Wonderland. Did that mean? I was on earth.
I instantly felt queasy and tried to stand up grabbing my forehead with my damaged arm. Bad move, that hurt real bad, and I cried again. I was so dizzy everything was spinning. I emptied my stomach in a bush.
I could see the outline of a house up ahead. Maybe someone there could help me.
I began staggering towards it.
