[center][hr][img]https://i.imgur.com/uFY0Reo.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/KNueJNm.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/faFVXYs.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/X7zKc5z.png[/img] [hr][/center] [quote=Isla][color=f26522]“I can try,”[/color] [/quote] "I... can't get us out of here otherwise," Rosalyn replied to Isla. "Yet you had no problem bringing us here..." Hagan trailed off as he crossed his arms... he didn't know what was going on, but he was going to find out. He wasn't about all of this against his will bullshit but he also didn't know what she was capable of. Especially if she made this place. For now, he kept his mouth shut. [quote=Isla][color=f26522]“But we’re all gonna be holding hands or have some kinda chain contact cause I ain’t gonna be able to guarantee I bring everyone along with it. I know some of you ain’t happy with each other but it’s worth it for the shot of getting out, ay?” [/color][/quote] "... Anyone tell you you talk too much?" Zoey said with a toothy grin... you know, [i]despite it all.[/i] As long they were getting out of here, Zoey couldn't care less about what people like Stacey thought right now. This was the closest bet they had to get the fuck outta this place. She grabbed onto Hagan's hand and Hagan grabbed onto Finn's hand. When she held onto Hagan's hand, there was a shakiness in it. Her heart was beating so hard it was about to explode. She sighed, to steady herself, as she looked up at Isla. "Isla," Zoey started and her voice broke for just a second, "[i]Do it.[/i]" And that she did... she teleported them all away. [center][hr][img]https://i.imgur.com/amj5CbJ.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/bDv4w6L.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/uFY0Reo.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/KNueJNm.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/faFVXYs.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/X7zKc5z.png[/img] [hr][/center] Odessa didn't want to say it but hope for finding the others was slim to none. She started to gain a grasp - as bare as it was - of how this place functioned. It changed depending on who was there, but it could be a place that infinitely created and changed as it's explored. For all [i]they[/i] know, Lilith, Mao, and the others were lost somewhere in here. Trapped in a place with all manners of horrors and freaks... ... Or they're dead. That was always a possibility. Either way, Odessa kept her third eye open as she walked through the place in case she could sense them. Or anything else that could be lurking here. Paradise couldn't be home to just [i]one[/i] murderous Apparition. It could be several... just waiting to attack. She hoped that, at the very least, she could sense them before they struck. Either way, Odessa's little stroll through Paradise was quiet as she was certain that she was going nowhere fast. She didn't want to bring down Penny. She was strong. She was going to crack any second now. And that third sense suddenly went wild as she sensed a group of people not too far away from her. Odessa immediately turned herself towards it expecting the worst and saw the... the group. Plus some red-haired girl. She wiped a bead of sweat off her head in relief. "Penny, you're okay!" Zoey said with a warming smile, "I would hug you, but..." "... I'm finally free," Rosalyn said as she walked off to the side and looked... the entire landscape of Paradise changed in the blink of an eye. From the beautiful Farmer Hill at its prime to... Paradise. The large, bright skied, sunny city that looked gorgeous. Just as beautiful as she remembered it. "... And who's your friend?" Odessa asked as she walked up slowly to the girl. "Are you lost here, too?" "I'm... Rosalyn, I created this place," She said, fighting tears, "I'm so sorry that any of this happened." "Oh..." Odessa said as she had a near bottomless supply of questions, but she read the room very well. "You brought us here, right?" "Yes," "I would love to know what happened here, even why," Odessa started, "But, you brought us here, can you let us leave?" "... Why would you even want to leave?" Rosalyn asked with a raised eyebrow. "Don't you know what's out there? Don't you know you'll have everything you want here." "Yeah stay here and let the Stockholm syndrome set in," Zoey had another cigarette lit as she rolled her eyes at the girl. "We'll have everything we want to ex-" "How about I do the talking?" Odessa said with a chipper smile as she stepped in front of Zoey. "... I don't. Would you mind telling me?" "... [i]The world ended.[/i]" Rosalyn flatly answered. "Huh?" Zoey said. "The world was fine when I checked." Suddenly, the environment changed again... it turned into a destroyed place that Zoey recognized as LA undoubtedly. The skyscrapers were collapsed, the buildings were caved in, and skeletons were littering the street. The sky was grey as a cloud of dust so thick blotted out the sun and tears came down Rosalyn's eyes. "I don't know what happened... but it was like a flash of light," Rosalyn started, "And then everything was gone. Destroyed. All that was left were monsters. That was when I... Awakened, I think I heard someone calling it, and made a [i]Paradise[/i] for everyone." While the girl was talking, Hagan was doing some investigating. He looked around and his eyes landed on a particular piece of newspaper. He knelt, grabbed it, and read the date: [b][code]June 12, 2017.[/code][/b]. "... This is one year from now," Hagan said. "Are you...?" "My abstraction pulled people from different points in time," Rosalyn said. "You all were pulled here before the world ended."