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[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

[ a young woman's voice comes on the Vine. she does not sound pleased. in fact, 'furious' might be a more appropriate way to describe it. ]

What is the meaning of this?! I demand an explanation! Right now! [ there is a loud, sharp CRACK!, the sound of leather hitting hard against the ground. ]

Any foolish answers will be met with a whipping! I don't want to waste my time hearing nonsense explanations!

[ she ends this with another CRACK!, to emphasize her point. ]

Comments

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

For something as absurd as this, no, that's not nearly good enough! If a hundred people told you unicorns were real, would you believe them? Of course you wouldn't! Because it clearly defies any and all logic! That much should be obvious!

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I'm starting to think there's unicorns and magical girls. Because I've met one of the latter.

... and, uh... there's also the thing you're using to talk to me right now. Do you have anything like that where you come from?

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

A "magical girl"? Hah! Been spending too long watching children's cartoons, have you? If you expect me to believe that, you're even a bigger fool than the other people here.

... No, I do not. In fact, its mere existence is ridiculous enough on its own. However, with today's technology progression, it should not be impossible to create something like this, though I have no idea why anyone would want to.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

... so, what would you do if I showed you somebody that could fly and shoot lasers?

What kind of place do you come from that could actually do this with vines?

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

That is currently the least of my concerns.

I come from the twenty-first century. Honestly, it's not that hard to believe -- with enough time and effort, a communication device masked as a plant should be perfectly within the realm of achievable, even though such resources would have been better spent elsewhere.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

But it would prove that things you thought were impossible are possible, wouldn't it?

Hm... I guess I could see that happening where I come from, but these vines are all over the place. That'd be pretty expensive to set up with just twenty first century technology, wouldn't it?

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

I don't need verification on "things", I need verification on the facts concerning my current situation! The supposed existence of magical girls is completely irrelevant!

Yes, it would be. Perhaps the kidnappers had a lot of money to waste. I can't say I particularly care for their reasoning surrounding this frivolous communication system.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

W-well, besides the fact that you've been kidnapped by the Queen of Hearts somehow, probably involving magic or something, and some of us have been trapped here for about a month now... I don't know what else to tell you?

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

A month, and still no known explanation or way out?! How worthless are the lot of you?!

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

... I'm only sixteen, and it's not like I've been kidnapped before. Though, somebody did try...

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

... Hmph, forget it. How many people have been brought here over the course of the last month? Do you know?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Hm... maybe about a hundred people? Or two? I'm not sure exactly, but I think it's around that much.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

That many? Preposterous... what about natives? Was there anyone here before you arrived? Other than this "Queen of Hearts".

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Besides the animals, there aren't many natives...

There's the um... *she thinks a bit* the Mother, the Warrior Princess, the Damsel, the High Priestess, the Healer, and the Vamp.

We've never met any of them in person, though. They've only used the vine to talk with us.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

Then I can only assume their locations are unknown?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and people have gone as far as they can in this place.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

... And how far is that?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I haven't gone myself, so you'd probably be better off asking somebody who has... though I've heard all of them had to go past wolves that... don't really try to stop them, but growl at them like they're trying to stop them or something?

Weird things happen to people sometimes that go out there... though you probably wouldn't believe me if I told you what.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

No, I probably wouldn't. But go ahead and tell me what you've heard.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

One of them was turned into a kid for awhile, and another was running around with a thunderstorm cloud chasing after her.

And I didn't hear it, I saw it...

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

... This conversation is seriously testing my patience, as well as my suspension of disbelief. Never mind. Moving on-- where do you stay? Do you all live as a group? What do you do for food and drinks?

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

If you can see the island with the sakura tree floating over a lake, that's where I'm staying right now.

There's some random houses you can sleep in, but they disappear when you're not looking. People have been building their own places.

As for food and drink, um... the river water tastes fine, and there's nuts and berries and animals for hunting...

... or you can ask the room service, but if I tell you what the room service is, you wouldn't believe that, either.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

Disappearing houses? How does a house disappear?

Whatever. Try me.

[yakuza-otaku.livejournal.com]

I don't know. Magic, I guess?

If you ask a songbird to bring you some food, it will.

[whipcracks.livejournal.com]

... [ CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! ] First being told to ask cats for advice, and now this?!