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((Haha, yes. I figured you would. But mine's better. It has a map to add to the pictures. smile wink . And that sounds perfect.))

((Izzy and Ly are at the very tip of the land on the west side. Ace is with Jesta.))
Ace smiled. He wasn't sure exactly why, but he was happy. Maybe it was just being with Jesta. "We should look around." He stood and offered his hand to help Jesta up.

((I probably won't be on again today and I leave tomorrow for my 'family' trip.*gag* I'll be back on Tuesday. Jesta can just drag Ace where ever she goes...and now for exploding eardrums))

Izzy landed in a tree. She had no idea where she was but she could hear water near by. She jumped out of the tree and landed on her feet, looking around. She spotted something just in the distance and started towards it carefully. It was a hat, that much was certain. As she got closer to the hat, Ly popped out of it, scaring Izzy to death. "OHMYGODYOUUNGRACIOUSLITTLE..." Oh yea...she was mad.
All Ly could do was laugh. Izzy was so freaked out. She looked like she had seen a ghost. 'Izz....you...you shoul....d see....your face..." He couldn't stop laughing. It was just to funny.
"You better hope I don't KICK YOUR a**!!!" She tackled him to the ground. The two started to wrestle and Izzy got in a few punches to the face. He finally pushed her back. She smiled at the site of his bloody face. "Don't mess with me."
"Wasn't thinking about it," he spat. Ly pulled off his hat and pulled out a napkin to stop his nose from bleeding. "That wasn't funny."
"Yes it was..." She started laughing at him. "Don't worry...only everyone's going to hear about how I kicked your tail." She started walking past him. "Come if you wish but if you decide to stay...well no one's going to come looking."
Of course Ly started to follow.

As Cheshire would step through the portal, he would find himself at the shores of a very familiar place; the Lake of Tears. The air was chilled, as it always was, a constant layer of frost dotting the foliage close to the freezing waters. The ground was hard in its frozen state, the dirt beneath him feeling as if it were stone, and of course, the lake itself seemed to emit a continuous aura of sorrow.

Rin wasn't far off from the portal as she slowly made her way around the shore. Her steps were slow, sometimes stumbling as she raised a hand to her head. Her cavalier attitude could only be held for so long when she felt this way, and she had thought she had escaped Cheshire for the time being.

She didn't even notice him following her, which was strange of course, cats were very aware creatures by nature.

The Cursed Cat stopped for a moment, her other hand raising to her head, both hands gripping at her hair. She appeared to be in pain, or some sort of distress, and since she thought she was alone, it didn't bother her to show it. Almost drunkenly, she continued walking forward, until she hit a slippery patch of earth and crashed to the ground. Mostly, she growled at herself, hissing at the light stinging of the scrapes now on her arms from attempting to stop the fall. Rather than standing back up though, she laid there, resting her head on one of her arms. Rin didn't have the energy or motivation to continue moving for the time being. Her plan was to lay there, alone, until she had the will to stand again. She didn't mind the cold, or rather, she ignored it as she closed her eyes, her claws digging angrily into the frozen earth.

On her back and around her arm, she could still feel the ringing pain from the burn of the mark. However, being in a place so cold, it slowly began to numb itself. She didn't count on freezing to death, but being so close to the cold waters made the injury seem less than it actually was.

"Cheshire has to be last... That's the only way I can do this... What was I thinking?!" she growled to herself, her claws still digging into the ground.

The Cursed One continued to growl and mumble to herself, unmoving otherwise on the cold and hard ground. Perhaps it was the influence of the lake, but her voice softened to a more sorrowful tone.

"No one knows... This land... It's poisoned..." She whispered, curling up slightly before continuing her conversation with herself. "It all used to be silly nonsense... Nothing was what it seemed, and what it was, it wasn't and all that... But now..." Sighing softly, she slowly pushed herself up, her tail curling around her waist in an attempt to warm herself up. Looking down at her lightly bleeding hands, she sighed and attempted to clean them, licking lightly at the minor injuries. However, after a few moments, a shining tear could be visible falling down her cheek. The lake was the only place she allowed herself to be this way, and she would always be alone.

"It's just going to keep growing... Consuming... It's not my fault I'm this way!" she growled after a few moments, quickly wiping the tear away as her hands returned to digging into the earth. "Why do I have to die for them?! I didn't do anything!" She growled loudly, her claws glowing red before the ground beneath her suddenly cracked.

"They want me dead anyway! They fear me! They wont even listen!" the ground suddenly jerked, the cracks growing further out. If she became much angrier, she could potentially drain the lake into the earth, however, she eventually calmed, her claws retracting as she brought her hands up to her arms, rubbing them in an attempt to get warm.

"They can't listen though... Not when 'it' kills them first... That's why they're afraid of me..." she whispered, gazing out at the lake.

"Well... They're not all afraid of me..." she said to herself, a blush coming across her cheeks as her ears flattened in embarassment. "I guess he has no reason to fear me... Not yet." Sighing to herself, she reached her hands down, gently pushing herself up to her feet. Rin appeared to be shaky, not just from the cold but from exhaustion. In truth, she had no idea where she was going after the lake. She escaped the Cheshire Cat, to her favorite spot, and now what?

"Maybe I'll just go find a tree to sleep in." she whispered to herself, stumbling slowly forward. Her head felt clouded, her senses impaired. She had no idea of the Cheshire's presence, and remained oblivious to what he might have heard.

His voice, his touch, was the last thing Rin wanted right now, and it made her hair stand on end as he admitted overhearing her. Whipping herself around, she threw his hand off of her and took a wobbly step back, her claws extracting instinctively. Even with his softened tone, his facade of understanding, Rin didn't buy it, nor did she want him to feel sorry for her.

She wasn't used to people feeling sorry for her.

"Stay away from me Cheshire!" Was all she could manage to say as she continued stumbling backwards. Even though she tried to hold up her hardened appearence, it was obvious that tears were threatening to fall from her eyes. "It doesn't matter what you remember! The past is gone!" she growled to him. "The only thing left to care about is whether or not this land will have a future... Don't try and understand me, Cheshire, you have no idea of what I am, what I'm going to be, and what I have to do..."

((I'm confused where is everyone?))

Cheshire, with all his understanding of Wonderland froze as he noticed he knew very little about her. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. He seemed to be watching the scene from outside his body. She was... Afraid of him, angry maybe. Like a teenage child seeing the result of bad parenting, his chaotic ways, she seemed to hate him during this moment. A tear began to slip from his right eye. He turned to the lake to hide it. He plopped down on the freezing cold land. He'd flipped the land inside out, and right now, he was the same. He was beginning to change. He saw how afraid, pushed away she was from what he'd done, when before people were drawn to chasing him. He was chasing her. He was losing his entire being to her. She was being chased.... by him nonetheless. His identity... The past. "You're right," he spoke softly, admitting to her that he actually didn't know something. A new thing to him.