Xaviers!

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 1:55 am**

Miriam spiraled down into the box, dodging red energy as she went.

SOMETHING was up here. Down here? Over here. It was hard to keep your barrings when you're tumbling down what feels like a tremendous hole, as bolts of red energy, trees and animals shot past her towards the exit to the box.

There DID seem to be light at the bottom of the pit.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:08 am**

Miriam tries her best to avoid the things pouring the other way as she descends towards the light. It made sense that some things would be able to get out, especially if they'd been waiting to be freed, but she'd have to let Sam handle that. So she spirals down, dodging trees and red lightning on her way.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:26 am**

Miriam emerged from the long dark tunnel...only to fall into a large, brown lake.

...Chocolate?

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:30 am**

Miriam flails for a moment as she tries to get her bearing after dropping into a lake of semi-viscous liquid. After a moment her avatar makes it to the surface and she drags herself to the shore, trying to will the chocolate stains off of her.

"Sweets?" she thinks to herself a little bit incredulously. She wasn't sure what she'd expected, but a lake of chocolate had not even been on the list.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:41 am**

"Well, well. What do we have here?" Will Stanton said, bending over to look at Miriam as she dragged herself to shore. "An unexpected tourist."

They were in some sort of large, natural setting--grass, hills, sunshine, birds singing, the like. It was a nice day!

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:54 am**

"Will? Yes, I suppose that's what I am, though I would have called myself an explorer."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:06 am**

"Oh, I'm sorry. We've already explored everything. You're a bit late," he laughed. "Born in the wrong century, or something along those lines."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:10 am**

"Well, it's terra incognita to me. Very much so, judging by the kind of landscape..." she says as she looks around.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:14 am**

There were a bunch of Wills, mingling around. The chocolate lake was filed by some kind of chocolate waterfall, and drained out into a chocolate river entering a cave.

"Well, you're not really supposed to be here, are you? At all, I mean."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:16 am**

"Probably not, no. But I'm good at getting into deep places like this, so Sam cracked the door a little for me. I have to admit, I didn't expect something like this."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:17 am**

"And what WERE you expecting? A playground? A blank canvas? Scars?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:22 am**

"Something more... worth locking away. Scars is high on that list."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:24 am**

"Well, as you well know, we're a bit more resilient than that," he said, still smiling. "You'll have to try harder, next time."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:27 am**

"I'm... not entirely sure what you're talking about. Did someone do this to you? Lock all this away?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:28 am**

"Oh, you want the whole two-bit tour, then? Everything from A to Z, with souvenirs at the end?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:31 am**

"I just want to find out if it's safe for Will, for you, to release all of this." she says. It's at least part of it, even if it's not the entire truth.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:34 am**

"Let it all hang out, huh? You're the safety inspector this time?

An interesting game, but you know me--I'm fun to play with."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:41 am**

"I... suppose?" she says before she decides to just cut to the chase. "Who is Mel?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:42 am**

"What an odd question.

She's tragedy, I suppose, isn't she?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:47 am**

"Is that what this is about then? Tragedy?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:49 am**

"Of a scale I'm not sure you can even begin to comprehend."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:53 am**

"Can you try to explain it? If it's so bad then maybe you'd rather leave it locked away down here..."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:54 am**

"It's difficult to explain. It certainly wasn't your doing, don't worry your head.

Perhaps you'd like to see for yourself?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:00 am**

"Please." she says. This was getting more and more confusing, though it was obvious that she must be reminding Will of somebody. Somebody buried in here along with tragedy...

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:01 am**

"Come on then, I'll take you there," he said, walking over to a convenient boat on the chocolate lake.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:06 am**

Miriam slowly floats after him and onto the boat.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:09 am**

As she floats past Will, he runs a finger down her side and then licks it, tasting the chocolate.

"Hrm. Doing something different with your hair these days?" he asked, climbing into the boat as it started floating mysteriously downstream, without any obvious means of propulsion.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:24 am**

"I'm not who you seem to think I am." she says, the two masks of her avatar craning around to look for chocolate stains to rid herself of. When she spots them it just sloughs off of her, leaving just faint blotches behind in the fabric. She's not too concerned about how the boat moves, she's sure it'll take them where they're going.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:24 am**

"Oh no? Who are you this time, then? Mary Bell?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:29 am**

"Nevermind. You're associating me with somebody and on this level no amount of logic is going to penetrate." she tries to wave it off. But still, such a persistent assumption...

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:30 am**

"Logic isn't what we do here. We make sweets," he said, as the boat entered the tunnel.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:32 am**

"That's hard to miss."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:37 am**

"What IS your favorite kind of sweet? I can see you're not a fan of chocolate," he said, as the boat began rapidly picking up speed.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:39 am**

"Sour drops, I suppose..." she says before she has a chance to consider the question too undignified to answer.

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:41 am**

"THAT is fitting. You know why?"

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:52 am**

"No, but I feel you're going to tell me."

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 6:00 am**

"Because I always thought you were sour.

And here comes the drop!" he added, as the boat they were riding plummeted over a sudden ledge!

Posted: **Wed Oct 28, 2015 2:45 pm**

Miriam really should have seen that coming but she's still knocked into the railing and frantically grabs for a handhold when the ship falls away from under her for a moment. She tries to reestablish her own reality to try and float, but this deep it's hard not to get tangled up in the realities of the mindscape and the current reality is that the ship is plummeting and her with it.

Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2015 7:53 pm**

To make matters worse, WIll had grabbed her in midair and began spreading out, like a blanket.

Or, considering he was sticky, more like flypaper or something along those lines.

"We're going to take a little trip," he said, as they fell.

Posted: **Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:06 pm**

"I couldn't help but notice..." she says, trying to stay calm. It's just a dream but that doesn't do much about the pit in her stomach from falling through the empty air, not to mention Will wrapping himself around her. "We couldn't have just taken an elevator?" she tries to ask sarcastically, but it ends up coming out a little nervous.

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