(open) you're looking at me like you don't know who i am

[entreats]

Who: Ange, Ruby, Break, and anyone who knows any of them.
What: Corruption turned Ange into a true Umineko witch who decided the best way to keep the people she loves safe from this town is to drag them into a pocket dimension.
When: For a while in March.
Where: Ange and Ruby's house-turned-small-pocket-dimension.

Content Warnings: Potential violence if anyone acts particularly antagonistic. Potential talk of violence or gore. Other warnings will be added when things pop up.



Perhaps you have seen Ruby's odd network post and decided to check things out. Or maybe you're just wandering around Trench and notice that Ange and Ruby's house suddenly looks.. different.

The house has been completely overgrown by way oversized roses, big thorns growing out of all the stems, completely obscuring the structure that's supposed to be underneath it. If you get close enough to the cluster of roses, you may feel your connection to any of the three people inside suddenly pull you in. (Please note: only people who know either Ange, Ruby or Break will be able to enter the pocket dimension because of this!)

If you give in to the sensation, everything around you might go black, and when the light returns, you seem to find yourself in.. a hedge maze. A rather odd one, though. As you stumble through it, you may suddenly find yourself in random rooms, and then back out of them into the hedge maze once more. The Moss King's wild plants seem to have even invaded corners of this place, so you might want to watch out you avoid having those snap at you. Retracing your steps through the labyrinth feels impossible, like the way is changing up behind you with every step. Some rooms make perfect sense - like a neat and elaborate kitchen, or a library - and others seem to consist of nonsense with stairs leading upside down or to nowhere, or gravity not working in a specific room at all.

Flying throughout the entire maze are golden butterflies. They seem to fly with direction, and if you follow them, you might find them leading you to one of the people you were looking for..

Comments

[entreats]

This is my world, of course.

[ There's nothing possessive about it, despite the use of the word 'my.' It sounds simple, like Ange is just explaining something that should be evident.

Like it's just an objective fact. ]

I created it. This place is better than Trench.

[gotaknife]

[He gives her a look of concern. Of course he's concerned. She doesn't look right, she doesn't sound right, and of course Martin is painfully familiar with how it feels to want to hide yourself away from the world.]

I mean, sure, it's pretty. It's really pretty - what garden isn't? But what about the real world out there? And your friends that are still in it?

[entreats]

[ There's a lot of things Ange could address here. She wouldn't even mind explaining the answers to these questions, since it's becoming rapidly obvious to her that somehow no one who comes in here actually understands the plan, even though it seems so simple to her.

So obvious.

But there's something else about what Martin is saying that stands out even more, causing the girl to frown as she looks at him. (Or in his general direction, anyway. It's hard to tell with those blank, glowing eyes.) ]

What do you mean, 'real' world? How is this world any more or less real than Trench itself?

[ She sounds almost a touch offended. ]

[gotaknife]

[Martin holds his hands up placatingly. He wasn't trying to offend her. He knows she won't hear a thing he says if she gets too stuck on the idea that this world isn't real.]

Sorry. Poor choice of words - the outside world, then, if you prefer. But come on. You have to realize how this looks, right? You and Ruby trying to hide yourselves away like this?

[entreats]

I'm not hiding either.

[ At least this sounds less offended. Maybe it's since so many people have said the same sort of thing already to her at this point that she's becoming a little more desensitized to it..

There's only so many times you can hear it before it all starts to blur together, after all. ]

Anyone can come join us here. I was just waiting with extending the invitations until I was able to expand this place. [ Its initial creation was already tiring enough, after all.. Ange is resting her powers right now. ] You could stay here too, of course.

[ Martin certainly was on the list of people she was planning on approaching about this, anyway. She wants to keep him safe. ]

[gotaknife]

Aren't you?

[This looks a whole lot like hiding from the world outside from Martin's perspective, even if Ange is unable, or unwilling to see it at the moment.

The offer gives him pause. It probably shouldn't come as a surprise, and admittedly it is tempting to try to leave the horrors of Trench behind, but...]

You know I can't do that. We have a responsibility to the world here, and the people who live in it. To try to help as best as we can. Besides, Jon would never agree to abandon Trench either.