[IC] Mirrors and Dreams [LunaGrey & Jett Ryu]

[Miraboreasu]

Drew slowed his breathing, accepting it. It sounded logical... sort of. He took a deep breath. "So I'm actually dreaming right now?" he asked. "And so this is like that old Mickey Mouse cartoon or Through the Looking Glass, right?"

[LunaGrey]

She thought a moment before shaking her head yes. "In the most logical sense yes, although I suggest you get to thinking about how to improve our situation in here, otherwise we'll stay inside this room and don't worry, we'll get back." In truth Evangeline didn't know for sure how they'd get back but this was not the time to tell him that.

[Miraboreasu]

"Our situation?" Drew repeated. "Other than being stuck in the mirror, how is this my problem, Eva?" It was an offhanded sentence, almost flippant. He just wanted a logical explanation for all of this other than he was in some sort of parallel dream world.

[LunaGrey]

She sighed, wait did he call her Eva? Wow, he must really be freaking out. Putting a hand to the mirrors surface, this time it didn't shift it stayed solid. Her heart jumped, "Oh...well then, suppose you should think of what you want most and it should work." She turned to look at him again. "Now the reason it is our problem is because you won't wake up until you've figured out how to get out...because I haven't read this entire book, and well...that is going to take awhile." She bit her lip, she'd lured this poor boy in here with her and now he's going to panic and she had no idea how to keep him calm.

[Miraboreasu]

That didn't help Drew in the least. "So I'm stuck in here?" he asked. "And what happens when they find me unconscious and won't wake up?" But as he said that, he realized something. "I won't... I won't have to deal with the people there. Or my parents. I'm... I'm freer than I have been before."

[LunaGrey]

Evangeline gasped, "Whoa whao whoa! No! You aren't supposed to be happy about this! Look Drew, listen to me you do NOT want to be stuck in here, it isn't at all what its cracked up to be."

Evangeline felt her panic rising, this boy must truly dislike his life to choose a life of. Solitude with a stranger inside of a mirror. Opening the book again she began to read, "Ugh! This book is written in the most confusing way possible!" Thumbing through the pages she came across a drawing of her and the mirror, she looked happy then. Her smile apprent, but why was she smiling then?

[Miraboreasu]

"You don't know what my life was like out there," Drew said, his voice and expression suddenly as cold as the Arctic. "And not just outside of those walls." He refused to say anymore. "So, what's the matter? Can't read it? Is our written language different from yours?"

[LunaGrey]

Evangeline sighed, "No need to get upset, and yes I can read it. I just haven't read it in so long. You'll have to give me some time, until then you need to find a way out of here." This really was more difficult than she thought. What if he really didn't want to get out of here? What if he wanted to stay here? She felt her hope dying, she couldn't let this boy stop her from getting out of here, she'd just have to convince him that being here was no better.

[Miraboreasu]

Drew touched the mirror, but nothing happened except for leaving fingerprints. "Why can't you just send me back?" he asked. "If you brought me here, you can send me back, right?" He turned to Evangeline. "I still don't know how I got here in the first place."

[LunaGrey]

Evangeline sighed, "It is hard to explain." She thumbed through the book, "I've never brought anyone in here until now actually. Usually the dreamer comes in here on their own." Looking at the mirror she sighed. "I suppose I can read further into it and tell you more, but first please just imagine you are in someplace happy so that we can get out of this dreary old room?"

[Miraboreasu]

Drew was a little confused, but thought to a place that gave him a sense of safety: his family's cabin on the east coast. He felt memories rush back to him of simpler times.

[LunaGrey]

The cabin began to appear around them. All the furniture and the actual setting. The snow piled high on the windows. Evangeline jumped up in joy. "Oh yay! This place is beautiful! Where are we Drew?" She walked around the cabin looking at the furniture with fasination. Spotting the window, she gasped, "Snowwwwwwww!", Evangeling exclaimed with joy. "You have some amazing imagination Drew, perhaps we'll be safer here than out in the open..." Her eyes searched the snowy woods surrounding them. "Drew...I need to tell you something..."

[Miraboreasu]

"This is my family's cabin," he said quietly. "We come here during Christmas break, and during the summer." Drew plopped down on a chair. "It makes me feel safe." He paused. "What is it?"

[LunaGrey]

She frowned, looking towards him. Pulling on a lock of her hair she tilted her head a bit. Sittind down with a grim look on her face she sighed, her eyes closed; "We aren't the only two here...at least to my knowledge we aren't." She squeezed her eyes tightly, scared of his reaction she held up a nearby pillow infront of her face, awaiting his reaction.

[Miraboreasu]

Drew moved the pillow away... but not to hit her. "What?"

[LunaGrey]

Opening an eye she sighed in relief. Gently she put the pillow next to her. "Well, I'm not the only one who is after this..." She pulled the book out of her waist band of her pants. "Ya see, it's very powerful and can do more than just effect the mirror...at least from what I've read so far."

[Miraboreasu]

"Then what can it affect?" Drew inquired. He sat down next to Evangeline.

[LunaGrey]

Evangeline felt her mind going blank, then it started all over again. The fresh pain of her memories made her eyes snap shut. Pulling her dark hair back she revealed puncture marks on her neck. They were old obviously but must have hurt, they looked larger than most needle marks. The scars looked almost new. Pushing her sleeves up she showed more marks from more needles. Pulling up her shirt a bit she showed him her stomach and sides. They had gash marks, some even looked incisions, some where still healing it looked like, because they were so deep. Evangeline felt the tears coming. "I'm sorry, you just...you have to know that we aren't as safe as we are , and the people who want the book, really want that book." She looked to him, her brown and gold flecked eyes stared into his. "The book is was made by an unknown race a long time ago, they were Fae, or in your case, fairies." She sighed, "I can read their language, but only enough to get us through the book, hopefully." She sniffled, pushing her hair back to her neck, covering the marks. "There was a Doctor, who used t-." She put a hand to her side, holding herself like she was in pain. Her eyes staring off into the window now, she couldn't bare to look him in the eyes. "I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have brought you here....he might hurt you, and it'll be my fault."

[Miraboreasu]

"He? A doctor? Fairies? Slow down, you're losing me!" Drew urged, holding his hands up.

[LunaGrey]

She sighed, "It is a lot to explain, you just have to bear with me here." Taking out the book she flipped until she found a picture of a creature similar to that of a women but its skin wasn't shaded in, its wings were bigger than the page could contain. The eyes were larger than a normal humans. Its hands clawed. The lower half looked faded , it had no legs only a smokey shadow. "This is a Fae." She handed him the book so he could look at it closer.