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Interlude

Interlude: The Long Walk

The desert was long and she didn't have any water. The little she did have was gone. She drank it a ways back. There were desert vines going all around her, but she had nothing to cut them with. The spines on the vines were toxic and if she touched them, the toxins would kill her quicker.

But it would be a painful death and if she had to pick, she'd choose to go peacefully to her forever sleep.

She never should have left. Her mother warned her, but she wanted to prove herself. The problem was long in the making, but she thought she could help. How foolish that was.

Now she was her, walking through the desert. Damn Alice. Damn her to hell, if there was such a place. It was all her fault. No, that wasn't true. It was her fault for taking the poisoned apple from that she devil. She was desperate and she took the hand offered to her.

Her linker beeped and a map icon appeared in the corner of her vision. She tapped it and it expanded. She was on the marked Red X.

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