A. ARRIVAL [She had only closed her eyes for a moment. Just a moment and...
And then, everything stopped. It stopped so suddenly that at first she thought she might have fallen asleep, but she's realizing now that she's very aware of the sensations around her. She's curled up, laying in snow. It's cold outside, but...not as cold as she thought it might be. The world is quieter than she's ever heard it before. Not in a bad way though. There's no cars. No bustling of people. It's quiet like night, but she can feel the sun.
She waits for something to happen. When nothing does, she opens her eyes and sits up.
She's...on the grounds of a fancy western-style mansion, it looks like. The kind that you read about in fairy tales or see in movies. Honestly, she's never seen a house so pretty before.]
...Mom?
[No answer. Kayo isn't sure whether that fills her with delight or dread just yet, but it's enough to make her stand up. She brushes the snow off of her bare legs, and adjusts her skirt in the hopes of making it a little longer.]
Hello? ...Is anyone here?
[When she doesn't immediately get an answer, she mutters a quiet "Forgive the intrusion" to herself, a stock phrase just so she can feel like she's done everything she was supposed to under these circumstances. Then, she starts to wander the grounds. She puts off going inside as long as possible.
She wonders for a moment if this is the place she wrote about in her essay, but then she immediately dismisses the thought as stupid. Somebody must live here. Why would there be such a big house with no one living in it?]
B. SETTLING IN [It turns out she isn't alone, but she still isn't sure what to make of Wonderland. How she's supposed to feel about it and how she actually feels are two very different things. There are people she misses, but there are more people she's very glad to be away from.
She isn't sure how she feels about the people who are here with her. They aren't all from situations like hers, she knows that immediately. Most of them aren't even Japanese, but somehow she can understand them perfectly when they speak to her. She doesn't know how to take them, so she's been trying to keep to herself until she's more certain of them.
Today she's found a tearoom far away from...not her room, but the room she's claimed for the time being. She's taken a small amount of yarn from the closets and parked herself in a comfortable spot in the corner, to start knitting something. It will be a pair of mittens eventually.
It's...nice. To be able to do whatever she wants whenever she wants to.]
Kayo Hinazuki | Erased (Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi) | (cw: abuse mentions, probably)
[She had only closed her eyes for a moment. Just a moment and...
And then, everything stopped. It stopped so suddenly that at first she thought she might have fallen asleep, but she's realizing now that she's very aware of the sensations around her. She's curled up, laying in snow. It's cold outside, but...not as cold as she thought it might be. The world is quieter than she's ever heard it before. Not in a bad way though. There's no cars. No bustling of people. It's quiet like night, but she can feel the sun.
She waits for something to happen. When nothing does, she opens her eyes and sits up.
She's...on the grounds of a fancy western-style mansion, it looks like. The kind that you read about in fairy tales or see in movies. Honestly, she's never seen a house so pretty before.]
...Mom?
[No answer. Kayo isn't sure whether that fills her with delight or dread just yet, but it's enough to make her stand up. She brushes the snow off of her bare legs, and adjusts her skirt in the hopes of making it a little longer.]
Hello? ...Is anyone here?
[When she doesn't immediately get an answer, she mutters a quiet "Forgive the intrusion" to herself, a stock phrase just so she can feel like she's done everything she was supposed to under these circumstances. Then, she starts to wander the grounds. She puts off going inside as long as possible.
She wonders for a moment if this is the place she wrote about in her essay, but then she immediately dismisses the thought as stupid. Somebody must live here. Why would there be such a big house with no one living in it?]
B. SETTLING IN
[It turns out she isn't alone, but she still isn't sure what to make of Wonderland. How she's supposed to feel about it and how she actually feels are two very different things. There are people she misses, but there are more people she's very glad to be away from.
She isn't sure how she feels about the people who are here with her. They aren't all from situations like hers, she knows that immediately. Most of them aren't even Japanese, but somehow she can understand them perfectly when they speak to her. She doesn't know how to take them, so she's been trying to keep to herself until she's more certain of them.
Today she's found a tearoom far away from...not her room, but the room she's claimed for the time being. She's taken a small amount of yarn from the closets and parked herself in a comfortable spot in the corner, to start knitting something. It will be a pair of mittens eventually.
It's...nice. To be able to do whatever she wants whenever she wants to.]