[b][u][i]London[/i][/u][/b]

Another day in the darkness of solitude, another night in a hollow, empty room, with not much more than a bed, a table, and a kitchen in the back. Not a sign of a computer, or even a tv in there, let alone anything else. Tyler Blackmore completely cut himself off from the outside while he was here, and he was fine with that.

Honestly, he doesn't quite understand why he even bothers going out for anything. Why he should not just indulge completely in the deadly sin of sloth until he dies alone; a fitting death he feels. It's not like he likes his recently appointed job, it's a normal nine-to-five working at a grocery store, with a normal wage for it. But no matter how much he feels he should die for what he's done on that fateful day, something inside of him, something he can't quite explain, keeps him in the struggle to live on with his life, something that prompted him to help others and give money to those in need, without waiting to get any gratitude for it before walking away. As he lays himself in bed, if only for a fleeting moment, he stopped thinking about his life, closing his eyes in the hopes that maybe his dreaming could help him escape his past.

...It never does.

Trauma of any kind has a tendency to fester in the subconscious of the mind; even if the conscious tries to forget the subconscious never does. As such, every night he is found struggling in his bed, moving back and forth as if never finding a comfortable position to sleep in, as his mind relives the catastrophe he experienced. Every night, he knows what's going to happen, and tries whatever he could to keep it from happening again, but by either natural or unnatural means, it never works, and he has to see that explosion and hear the screams of agony from those his explosive burned to death every night, over and over in a self-made purgatory.

But this time, this time was different. As he crawls into a fetal position, trying to shut his eyes from flames, and cover his ears from the screams, he began to notice the light starting to go dim, the screams becoming softer and softer. He opened his eyes and ears, and noticed that, instead of that location, he was now in a void of black, and nothing but silence to accompany it. He tried to think this was a dream, and command his physical eyes to open, but they never did and he only sees this complete darkness. Tyler didn't much believe in a god, nor believed in an afterlife; what he's seeing and hearing now, nothing, is exactly the kind of thing he expected would be seen when he died. In which case, did he die? Did this constant repeating experience finally just up and killed him? His thoughts were answered in a way he did not expect. A shining light broke through the darkness, somewhat hurting his eyes. He squints in order to look at the source, and while it took a little while for his eyes to focus for the detail, he saw it: A mirror, a rather fancy looking one at that. As he floated towards it, though, he began to notice that, unlike other mirrors, it was not reflecting himself from its surface, but rather, a forest of some sort. Tyler looked back at the darkness, checking if it was reflecting the scene behind him, but it was still darkness.

This was interesting for him, even before the incident, he knows he never had a dream quite like this before, well, maybe he did and he just doesn't remember, but it couldn't have been this...vivid for his mind. Our of curiosity, he touched the surface of the mirror, looked fascinated as it ripples like the surface of water. Pushing his finger forward, he managed to push his hand through the surface of the mirror, again, like water. He tried to pull it out, only to notice that he could not, and that something from inside the mirror, something he couldn't see, was pulling him inside. Tyler had plenty of strength from his days in the army, but even that was like nothing, as he could not pull himself from the mirror, and was inevitably thrown in.

His neighbors may have noticed it now, the moving of his body and the groans he lets out were both silenced. If they ever looked inside, it may have looked like Tyler, for once in his life, was actually sleeping peacefully.

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[b][u][i]Butter Daisy Forest[/i][/u][/b]

Tyler managed to land further inside the forest, a surprisingly large distance away from the others. He didn't scream while he did, more fascinated than horrified at what was happening. Because of this however, his landing would be hardly noticed by the party gathered everywhere else. At the very least the White Rabbit and Alice didn't notice it, Although Adam did spot something falling from the corner of his eye, when he looked over to see what it was though, it was already gone from his sight.

Speaking of which...

Alice looked at everyone getting up, amazed by how many people are now here, people she has never seen before has entered this place, and by the sound of things, did so the exact same way she did. Was this truly a dream? It seemed impossible for it to be otherwise, and yet, here they were, ...the compliment of her age by a few of them were appreciated however.

"[b]Why...Thank you.[/b]" She said to them, giving a shy smile before shaking her head and looking towards the Rabbit again. The others were right, while her beauty being called into question from her age was a personal problem, they needed to focus more on what the hell's going on around them.

The actual kid of the group seemed to pull an effort of figuring it out...in a rather bizarre way of doing so. While Alice tried to smile and ignore the oddities of what the kid was saying, Adam simply raised an eyebrow at the kid.

"[i]Yeah... this has to be a dream. No normal kid would talk like that in reality.[/i]" He thought, as he too looked at the rabbit, his ear perking up as he heard the other man who came in, who appeared to be just as convinced of it being a dream as him. Adam gave a short glare towards him, and then back towards the Rabbit.

It was right about when one of the females of the group decided to try and take a picture of the White Rabbit with a phone that does not work, that the White Rabbit began to realize that, maybe this wasn't such a good idea. Most of them were staring like they never saw a white rabbit before, unaware that it's his human like tendencies such as standing on his hind legs and talking that made them so fascinated with him.

...And it was getting annoying fast.

Thank the sea of souls that there were at least SOME of these people who were able to ask some decently acceptable questions about the scenario, such as asking him what's going on, and if he can even be trusted. The fact that Hector called said trust of this rabbit into question did not phase the rabbit one bit. Thinking seriously and logically for a minute, he actually knows for a fact that humans have never seen something in their world quite like him, so it's not that surprising that they wouldn't trust him at first glance. He then immediately pulled out a pocket watch with a lid covering the actual watch, opening it up midway so as to check the time on it...pretty much solidifying what Liam said about the rabbit.

"[b]...Whatever information I can provide, I'll be happy to. But for now, there's no time to explain. For the sake of information, you're in the Butter Daisy Forest...or at least just outside of it anyways, and we're not out of the woods yet. Reasons for trust aside, something terrible is coming this way as we speak, and we need to get to safety now before it arrives.[/b]" The White Rabbit explained.

"[b]Something, ...terrible?[/b]" Alice asked.

"[b]Perhaps you didn't hear the pale guy over there, but that's not how this is going to go. You can't expect us to go anywhere with you if you don't give us a reason to believe you're not some predatory monster or something.[/b]" Adam said to him.

"[b]A monster!? How rude! I'll have you know I am just as sophisticated as any human on your side.[/b]"

"[b]What do you mean on OUR side? Where exactly are we?[/b]" Adam then asked, interrupting the rabbit.

"[b]I told you there's no time to explain right now! We need to get moving to safety before he comes![/b]" The White Rabbit said.

"[b]Before WHO comes!?[/b]" Adam said back.

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