Hei sat at a boot facing away from all the other costumers. He had ordered everything on the menu, triple sized the fries and double the plates. He didn't show any sign of his true feelings he held inside. In reality he was furious, angry with not being able to find Yin and even more infuriated at the men that took her. The mysterious man at the docks didn't really sturr any of these negative feelings. He more or less intrigued Hei; like how he was drunk one moment and able to disappear until he was directly in front of his opponent the next and have equilibrium in his attacks. His contract is what got Hei thinking. He's seen people on the brink of death still able to do incredible things, but this man called his contract 'magic', and Hei was starting to believe him; he's never seen magic before, but what he could tell it required no price of a contract and this Silas didn't seem to have a deal.

The smile gave to the waitress did not betray any of these thoughts. She smiled back at him nervously. "Umm?" He looked up at her swallowing down the lump in his throat of apple pie. "Do you need anything else sir? What I mean is, are you going to eat all that?" She smiled warily. Hei gulped and looked behind her at the old couple staring at him, the women whispering at the old man. When they saw him they were stone still, it might of looked like the were paralyzed for a moment, but then they smiled like a deer caught in headlights and turned in their seats. He returned the waitresses smile and answered. "Uh yeah." he laughed. "I'm just a little hungry." The waitress smiled and turned to another table. What part of that is little? She thought.

Hei returned to stuffing his face full and stared out the window at nothing in particular. He sighed. He wanted to find Yin. He would o anything to find her and make her kidnappers pay. To any one else they would just see Yin as a Doll. But she wasn't to him and for other reasons too. Yin acted more human than any other Doll and she was his best friend. He didn't care that Huang or others like the Syndicate thought he was nuts, Yin was his friend and he didn't leave friends behind.

Hei had unknowingly stopped eating. He looked down at his hands and suddenly the floor was rushing up to his face. Then everything went dark.

Hei woke up to find he was in his Black Reaper clothes but wasn't wearing his mask. He was laying on his back and when he stared up at the sky it was all hues of browns; a mirage of clocks and bridges flitting to different places. He sat up and realized he wasn't in the diner anymore. The building around him were standing on different angles and the paint was tearing, the windows were cracked along the panes but the glass did not fall nevertheless. There was no one in sight. Hei looked around an thought maybe he ate something and it went down the wrong way. But Hei was not dreaming, he heard pounding feet coming from the distance an soon a pair of three cat winged creatures stood in front of him.

A man in a smiling mask got off the farthest creature and stepped in front of him. "What are you? Where is your mask. Everyone must wear a mask or be thrown in jail." He stood in front of him with his arms on his hips. Hei didn't believe his eyes but he had seen stranger things. The man's mask shifted and suddenly he was wearing a frowning dark brown mask. Hei raised his eyebrows. No more dessert before the main course for him. The masked man stared down at Hei. "Well? Can't you talk?"

"Where am I?"

"You're in a world of trouble if you don't put your mask back on immediately. The are no showing feelings in this kingdom." He tutted. "I can see you frowning. Whatever's up setting you is unnerving. Its creepy. Stop having emotions! It against the crown to be emotional. Why do you think its called the Plastic Doll Smile law? No don't answer that, you don't know what your thinking." Hei could only stare at him. His past mask was broken, he didn't get a chance to switch it out ever since last night. As Hei went to get his mask from his back pocket the man flinched and the creatures roared and stomped angrily. "He has a weapon! Grab him. He plans to hurt the queen!" The cat wing creatures hulled Hei up to his feet and onto their backs. They flew high in the air and headed toward the Dark Palace.

Everything was dark. There was no light, to be able to see your hand when it was right on the tip of your nose was the most light Hei would get in the dungeon he was being held in. There was strange people in the other cells. Well, they weren't people. Whatever these creatures were Hei was glad he was in a cell all his own, but when he did try to see better into one of the other cells he saw the other prisoner looked like a horse being without a horses head, instead it was a morphed version of a monkey head and a lions tail but it was the colors of a peacock.

What Hei realized then the horse monkey prisoner was just one of the many atrocious looking prisoners there. They were so completely out of his imagination how could have ever thought of (A/N but that was only because Hei doesn't have that much of an imagination). With the amount of jail cells containing the "creatures" Hei figured they were the people of where he was and he was no longer in Dublin.

The sound of foot steps rang down the hall and the same masked man came into view. "Well nice to see you again. Not! Ready to correct the mistake you have made?" He sneered.

"I'm ready to leave. Now you can either let me go or I make you the new prisoner." Hei hissed.

"Ha! If you had a mask then I might like you, but not until you get one I'm afraid you'll just have to sit there. Fat chance trying to find one in here!" He resembled one of those plush air clowns that kept moving back and forth and stayed in place. He leered at Hei , sure of himself that he had the upper hand.

Hei smiled, but faintly, he didn't need any more nonsense spuing out of this crack head. "Someone ought to arrest you. Your not allowed to show feelings yet you just said your afraid I won't escape."

He frowned. How dare this outsider speak to him that way. But he was right. That didn't mean he wasn't going to tell him. He needed to stop feeling this feeling he suddenly felt overwhelmed in. pride? Anger? Jealousy? They sounded right but they weren't right under the Dark Queen it was completely and utterly cleared his throat, fixing the look on his face that would have surely resided in him really going to jail and no less put him right next to this smart alec had he had no mask. "At least I'm not the one who is in prison. Don't come out on my part. You look great sitting there for the of your life me." He said at last and the guards escorted him out.

Hei did not try to escape. Once the guards were gone he already would have been outside trying to find what this world was. Hei took the mask from out of his pocket. They might have taken his knives from him but what they didn't know was he was a contractor. He took one finger and heated in one line then kicked the bars down and jumped through the holes. The other prisoners did not notice him except for the horse monkey. It looked at him and a longing way but then hayed to him as if to say leave already. Hei turned his head a race down the hallway.

Getting past the guards was a breeze. They didn't give him a second look when they saw the masked figure. Hei was at the odd shaped door when someone called behind him. "Stop. Person. Who are you I've never seen you before." it was the same man. This guy was really thick, he was irking Hei more and more. But to his relief someone else called behind the Authoritive and before he could turn someone else called behind him. He turned to see who it was and before Hei could sneak away his body shook an his skin tingled to the bone. The whole world before him blurred in a bubble and he vanished with a pop. When the Official turned again there wasn't anyone there.

I am fully on board with creatures that don't look anything like humans. In fact if you were to ask me if I was a mundane I would give you the 'what-kind-of question-is-that' look and then answer I never was and never will be one of those filthy beast.

I say 'creatures' out of respect and 'beast' for when I'm calling it a monster. One of my favorite movie line is "You people have no imagination." with the accent :).

Although Hei is a contractor and has seen many weird stuff, weird being good in my book like creature, he doesn't know how to approach the creatures of the MirrorMask world.

P.S. If you did call me weird I take that as a compliment :)