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Ryu looked at the cat almost with pity. She did like cats. She couldn't help it. Anyway, she liked snakes, worms, and man-of-wars. She didn't care that they were the animals that had been cast out. They were helpful in ways that she knew about.
...Sometimes it seemed she was the only one who 'knew about'.

Ryu, after quickly forgetting that she was (probably) the only person in the car who could speak Japanese, started talking. " talking now....>"

"Well," Fiasco began, looking at Traci in the rearview mirror "It's complicated. Imagine for a moment that we're not alone. I mean in a grand scale. The reality we know appears to coexist alongside others. Or so the Cat tells me."

The Cat turned to Traci "Fiasco is right. He's far more astute than I gave him credit for. As for why you're here, I imagine it has something to do with strength of mind. My involvement in your lives through Fiasco may have had something to do with too."

Fiasco hung a hard right just as the Cat told him "But what are we supposed to do here while our reality is phased out?"

"I chose you for a reason, I need your help to wake the Red Queen." The Cat stated flatly.

FIasco's eyebrows raised in question "Where are we? Wonderland?"

The Cat turned to Fiasco, eyes narrowed "You may as well be. Only in this variant, the Red Queen has nightmares you've never imagined. Our world is plauged, besieged, by them."

"" Ryu was chuckling gleefully all the way through. OK, maybe she was a little weird. ((But that's OK, because we love her, and she saves peoples lives for a full time job. That's right; I said full time. The only REAL reason she's in America is BECAUSE of the mindslaves, but she doesn't know it.))

Khyn squinted slightly at the cat, lost in contemplation. What was the creature talking about. It all sounded so odd... almost... Ah ha! That's what's going on. It all suddenly made sense to her.She must have fallen asleep in the cafe and was dreaming all of what was happening. Because everyone knew that statues couldn't talk or move, and it also explained the entire weirdness of this night. She pursed her lips slightly, glanced sideways at Fiasco and then leaned back in the seat. She crossed her arms over her chest and closed her eyes. The basic ignoring of the situation drew a few curious gazes from the boy, which she didn't notice. I'll just close my eyes for a minute and wake up again in the cafe, she thought to herself.

Traci listened, fascinated at Ryu's Japanese babble. She tried her best to pick out words but was largely unsuccessful.

((Filler post! biggrin ))

(Lets start with I have no idea what your talking about. Light warps as what/who changes? How can it be anything other than pure theory? In any case, You said something about you being in America because of the mind slaves, and I pointed out that this place can hardly be described as America. I didn't mean to offend, I was just makeing sure that you knew what was going on.)

Fiasco drove as Khyn closed her confused eyes, painfully aware that his shoulder had yet to stop bleeding. "Everyone all right?" He said out loud, but he looked at Khyn as he spoke. A droplet of water fell atop his windshield, followed closey by a second one. Lightning flashed in the distance, it was two seconds before the report was heard. "As if my night couldn't get any worse, it begins to rain. Typical. Where are you directing us?"

The cat flicked his tale, "Not far. You'll want to make the next left, then stop the car. We'll go the rest of the way on foot."

The car drove gently along as rain began pounding it. Fiasco turned left and stopped the car. In front of him is what appears to be a crstaline bear the size of an elephant. It sat in the middle of the road blocking any further access to the street ahead. It's dark purple body shimmerd as the cars headlights danced along it's glossy surface. It moved it's head to stare at the mass of metal that pulled up in front of it. "Cat?" Fiasco stared at the beast, dumbfounded "What in God's name is that thing?"

The Cat peered at the wet creature throug the windshield. "You've never seen a bear before? I find that dificult to believe."

"Are all animals here made of materiall thats not living flesh? More importantly, should we get out here, I mean, is it safe to get out here?" Fiasco didn't take his eyes off the shiny bear as he voice his concerns to the Cat.

The Cat raised an eyebrow that Fiasco wasn't even aware he had "If nothing else, it'll keep the mind slaves away."

Fiasco's head bobbed up and down breifly "Right. Everyone stay here." He opened his door and stepped out into the rainey gloom. The bear watched quite curiously, but made no agressive acts toward him. He approached the bear cautiously to ten feet from. He then turned and walked back to the car. "Seems all right, everyone out of the pool." And with that, he turned the car off.