The Rabbit, the Violinist, and the Tree Runner
Author's Note: Feels good to get new chapters up. I finally get to write in Julius, he's awesome. Enjoy!
Martella- in Wonderland with Iris
After following the stairs from the top of the tower for a while with only on torch, we finally came to a candle lit hallway with a dark blue hall and light golden wallpaper.
We followed the voices of two guys arguing over something we couldn't make out. We tried to keep as silent as possible till Iris tripped on a bit of carpet, accidentally dropping my already battered instrument.
"Sorry, this is not my day. First I fall out of a tree, get my first kiss stolen and now I trip," she exclaims, so much for being silent.
I'm about to help her up when the voices stop and one of them comes out holding a sword to her neck. The other comes towards me with a gun.
The one with the sword has sandy brown hair and blood red eyes, the same color as the blood on his clothes. He looks like a figure from a nightmare with the long cape and the blood stains.
The one holding the gun at me has deep blue eyes and long blue-almost-black hair that's tied up in a loose ponytail. He's wearing a navy blue coat and a gold dress shirt covered in clocks.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" the swordsman asks.
"We were brought here by a man with rabbit ears and we were walking down from the roof we landed on," Iris answers irritably. I pray she doesn't say something that will get us both killed.
"Well you aren't faceless or new roleholders so you must be foreigners," he says lowering his sword. The blue haired man lowers his gun.
"That idiot rabbit, what was he thinking bringing two people this time..." he begins to mumble to himself.
"I'm Ace!" the knight greets over happy and helps Iris up. She doesn't say anything but looks like she wants to hit something.
"I'm Julius. I must return to my work now. If you need a place to stay there are some empty rooms further down," he turns and walks back into the room.
"Well at least you came here first. Alice went all the way to the Hatter's Mansion last time," Ace said.
We both have no clue who or what he's talking about so he says we'll find out later. We introduce ourselves and we find out that Ace is the knight of hearts, like the knave of Hearts in the book. We walk towards the end of the hall and stop by the empty rooms. We bid Ace goodnight and take our own rooms. I look out the window in my room and surprisingly it's still quite light outside. It felt like we spent a lot less time on the stairs than I thought. I lay my instrument on my bed, the case unopened. I refuse to look at it and start drawing instead.
I draw the rabbit man whose name is still unknown to us, and Julius. Ace I don't draw, truthfully he creeps me out a little, and the bloodstains are just a bit questionable.
After I finish drawing I'm too emotionally exhausted to do anything else so I set my instrument down on a chair in my room and sink into the beds soft covers and fall asleep.