❀ Episode 03 ❀ [Dictated / Action]

[therealrisette]

[Rise wakes up in what feels like familiar surroundings, but doesn't look quite right. It's like she's on a huge fluffy cushion or something. This isn't still that Wonderland place, is it?! She doesn't feel like that... fairy groundskeeper or whatever she was supposed to be there anymore.

She rolls over to get up, but feels something weird, but oddly familiar. She's quickly distracted from that when she looks down from the cushion, though. It looks like the pattern on her bed's sheets, but much bigger!

... Uh-oh. Her wings give a little flutter as she starts to consider what that means.

Wait, wings?! Oh, crap!]

Okay, very funny! You can turn me back now!

[Her voice carries over the open journal, and goes almost-silent again for a moment while she uses all the practice she got with those wings in Wonderland to fly around and explore the room. It's definitely hers, and it's huge! She can't be bigger than her cell phone back home now! Actually, it's probably bigger than her.]

... And the door is closed?! Seriously?!

[Okay, she might be starting to panic a little bit here, but she tries to stay calm. She's been in worse situations before back home, all she has to do here is contact someone who can help.]

{ooc: Filter time!}

[Friends filter]

Hello? Can anyone hear me? This is Rise.

I'm kinda... stuck in my room right now. It's not urgent or anything, but could someone please come soon?

[People met in Wonderland]

Was I the only one acting weird in that mirror place?! And is everyone else back to normal?

[That other fairy girl]

Nora-san, was it?

Did you change back to normal today? ... Or were you always a fairy? I'm sorry, I'm still getting used to this magic castle thing.

[A slightly awkward pause.]

Anyway, can we talk?

Comments

[therealrisette]

[Oh right, she hadn't even really thought about wishing for things yet.]

How does that work, anyway? Wishing, I mean. Is there like, a certain way you have to do it?

[Even though she's been here about as long as Kara has, it still seems that the other girl knows so much more about the place...]

[kryptonian]

[When you're an alien in a strange world, you learn to just puzzle things out as you go, and not fear anything new. Most of the time, anyway.]

As far as I've figured out, you just ask for it out loud! "Castle, can I have a new t-shirt" and all that. If you're asking scientifically... I haven't yet figured out how it pulls matter out of nowhere. Maybe some kind of matter displacer or something.

[therealrisette]

[Yeah, the scientific concept stuff just goes over Rise's tiny head so she just decides that part's not important. Not that she doesn't grasp the basic concept, but it just doesn't matter to her.]

Oh, so you mean like, ask for a fairy-sized glass or silverware?

[That'll make a lot of things about being this small easier! Unless the castle decides to mess with her instead. Which, given her current situation, she's a little suspicious about.]

Does it really always give you what you ask for?

[kryptonian]

Sure, why not? It'd be easier than eating with your hands.

[She shrugs, though.]

I can't say I've tested it enough to be sure, but it apparently doesn't grant wishes for people.

[therealrisette]

Yeah... I guess that does make sense.

[She wasn't even thinking about that before, but now she's thinking about all of her friends back home. Not that she'd want to drag them here or anything, no matter how much she misses them.]

But it doesn't ever like, give you the opposite of what you wish for, right? Or anything weird like that?

[kryptonian]

Not that I've experienced so far.

[therealrisette]

Oh, right.

[Rise chuckles quietly.]

I keep forgetting you haven't been here long either. You already seem to know so much!

[Out of random curiosity, she takes a quick look around to see if she can figure out where they are from her... admittedly strange vantage point.]

But at least it doesn't happen a lot, if it even does.

[She's just extra suspicious because she woke up tiny this morning, that's all.]

[kryptonian]

Yeah, but that's just practice winding up in new places and having to figure out the local "rules." So to speak, anyway.

[They're on their way down to the kitchen, of course!]

I don't know how it'd be useful for the castle.

[therealrisette]

[So the castle doesn't usually mess with things people ask for, it just randomly pranks people like this instead?]

Heh. I guess I just haven't figured out some of the "rules" yet.

[She makes a mental note to look back through the journal for more information later. Maybe. As long as it's not too complicated or boring.]

[kryptonian]

It just takes a bit of time.

[therealrisette]

Yeah, I guess. And having friends to help out too!

[Yes, she went for the cheesy friends speech again. It just felt right, but she laughs a bit at herself for actually saying it. Even if it is true.]

... Never would've thought I'd be asking someone to carry me in a pouch, but I guess weirder things happen around here all the time?

[Like Wonderland, for instance.]

[kryptonian]

Again, couldn't tell you, little to no experience. I think the only "loss" type thing I've experienced is my friend turning into a huge bitch for a few days, but that faded pretty fast.

[therealrisette]

The castle can do that?!

[She knew it could change how people acted, but Rise was pretty much just a fairy-Wonderland version of herself the only time it's happened to her so far.]

Was it Stephanie-san?

Um, n-not that it's really any of my business...

[Awkward. She was just curious since she still really wants to meet Stephanie, but she doesn't think she'd want anyone else talking about her if the castle put her on a loss like that.]