01 ❆

[needlebearer]

Who: Arya and YOU
Where: Around Gravity Falls
When: February 8-9th
Rating: G, though will update if this changes
Summary: Arya realises she's not in Westeros any more
The Story:

a) Forest
One minute she'd been on horseback, clinging to Sandor Clegane to stay mounted as they plodded toward the Eyrie. The next she found herself quite alone, in the middle of thick woodland. To say Arya was confused was an understatement, but she'd put that to one side for now as the relief and wariness of being on her own warred in her - she wasn't exactly sorry to be away from the Hound, but she couldn't be sure what was lurking in the trees. As if on cue a twig snaps loudly a little way away, and Arya missed having Needle at her side more than ever.

She makes her way over cautiously, expecting at worst a gang of raiders and at best a small animal she can kill and eat, and is bewildered instead to find a blond teen with the whitest teeth she's ever seen, frolicking about the forest floor like an oversized rabbit. She stares for a long moment, unsure if she's hallucinating, but then the boy locks eyes with her and gives a relaxed, friendly smile before calling to what Arya can only assume are the other members of his pack.

Soon Arya's storming through the trees at quite a speed, looking thoroughly irritated and casting looks over her shoulder to the boy band that's singing and clicking and bopping in time.

"I said stop following me!"


b) Gift Shop
When she comes across the oversized Mystery Shack, Arya darts inside and slams the door behind her, leaning back against the wall while she tries to get her breath back. As she does so, she glances around and takes in the assortment of oddities on display. A jar of eyes stare unblinkingly at her, and it takes her a moment to break her gaze from them, feeling a little unnerved. When she turns away she distracts herself with some of the other curios, turning over plastic tchotchkes in her hands, giggling as she pokes at a bobblehead and watches it wiggle about, staring in confusion at a fish nailed to the wall dressed in bright, odd clothes.

When she hears footsteps she jumps, throwing everything back on the shelf quickly, afraid she'll be accused of trying to steal them.

Comments

B

[naughty_nurse]

"W-welcome to the Mystery Shack!"

That's the welcome Arya gets from behind the register. She tries to smile at the newest guest, wanting to make a good sale. But why was Arya acting so jittery?

"D-did you... find something you like?"

[needlebearer]

It's not until Mikan asks that question that Arya realises that this is a shop rather than her having walked into someone's collection of oddities. She thinks that you'd have to be very rich indeed to spend money on these sort of things, which seemed to have no practical use whatsoever. She hurriedly replaces the bobblehead she's still holding, shaking her head. "I didn't realise they were for sale."

[naughty_nurse]

"Everything here is for sale!" Mikan gestured around the two of them, trying to keep up a shaky smile. Truth be told, she was very nervous serving 'customers', as this was a job she'd never done before. She was even afraid to come out from behind the counter.

"You can buy anything you see here."

[needlebearer]

The dollars she'd found on her when she arrived didn't mean anything to her - Arya had no copper stars, no silver stags, and even if she did, she knew she couldn't waste money on any of this. Although the idea that they were indeed saleable was confusing in itself to her. "Why, though? What do they do?"

[naughty_nurse]

"Um, well... they all do different things." She uneasily balanced from one foot to the other. Truth be told, a lot of these odd knick-knacks did nothing but... be odd knick-knacks. "They're souvenirs. You take them home so they can remind you of your time here... I think."

[needlebearer]

Arya's eyes widen with a newfound hope at the idea that if these were to be taken home, it only made sense that there was a way to leave with them. "So we can get home?"

[naughty_nurse]

Mikan had meant back home to Wonderland, but it wasn't as if Arya was wrong. She nodded slowly - what a nice feeling to know something that someone else doesn't. It's like she's smart.

"People have left Wonderland b-before... Plenty of people have."

[needlebearer]

"How?" Maybe she was expecting too much, since she'd been dumped here with no explanation, but if there was any information to be gleaned here, she needed to get it. She couldn't just wait around here when there was so much she needed to do back in her own world.

[naughty_nurse]

She cast her eyes down. "I-I'm sorry, but... nobody knows. P-People just... vanish. I-It's like how we come here... we're just here, and then we're just... gone."

[needlebearer]

Arya's eyes widen and her face falls in disappointment. She tries to play it cool and not show her anxiety, but she's not sure how successful she is.

"So you don't know if they even do go home. They just disappear."

[naughty_nurse]

"W-well, you see... The people that have left... Sometimes they come back. Th-that's how we know..."

She shifted her shoulders over and over, feeling less intelligent than she did a few moments ago.

[needlebearer]

"...Oh." It seemed like such an obvious answer that Arya feels a little silly for having asked. "Well that's pointless, if they're going to send us away just to bring us back."

[naughty_nurse]

It was a little reassuring to know someone else felt and thought the same way. Her lips tried to twitch into a smile. "Y-Yes, there's... not much rhyme or reason for anything about Wonderland."

[needlebearer]

Arya nods agreement. "Especially if these are anything to go by--" she waves the plastic knick-knacks she's picked back up in her own curiosity "--pretty much everything here seems pointless."