"Oh, alright. Guess here, money really does grow on trees...er, in grass," Willa replied with a small chuckle. She pocketed the gems Talijakey handed to her. Willa walked behind Talijakey and the kitty pokemon creature, startled by the appearance of what kind of looked like a holographic version of Taokafka, just girl-ified. She followed the two as they made their way to what Taokafka called Castle Town, observing the strange world that they had all been teleported to. Willa was a bit confused-would the NPCs of the game still be here, or were they out of the picture? And surely there were some kinds of creatures there solely for the purpose of hindering progress, like the goompas in the Mario games. If there were, Willa hoped that they decided to stay away, or that they were at least avoidable. In contrast to the other people sucked into the internet, Willa did not have some impressive supply of weaponry; instead she got stuck with the most useless things possible in a fight (like c'mon, what good is a ribbon going to do against [i] anyone? [/i] ).

"Yeah, I have some random stuff that I had before getting sucked into the internet," she said in response to Talijakey's question. "That's a good idea, actually-we're definitely strange enough to pass for a circus," she continued with a genuine laugh. She paused for a moment and took the hoop, which had downsized itself again, out of her bag and found the discreet button that allowed her to bring it up to a normal size. She pushed down on it, and the hoop enlarged itself. Willa twirled it between her thumb and index finger. "I have more things like that with me, just in case someone does take notice," she said.

"So, how much longer till we get to Castle Town, and what's in it?"