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[lonely_wolf]

I guess there are a lot of new-person journal entries right now, so I'm not the only one who's confused. Almost nice Who are all of you people? None of this is fairy familiar. I've seen journals like this, but not for a hundred people to share.

Anyways... My name is Cerise Hood. If any of you know more about what's going on, can you tell me? I'll get out of your hair after that. This stuff I'm hearing about the Navy isn't too welcoming, but I don't want to get stuck here forever after, either.

...How much do any of you know about fairy tales? It's related, I swear.

(Strikes are all visible!)

Comments

written;

[hoodwinking]

["fairy tales?" "Hood?" that's a quick way to get Bonnie's attention...]

I know quite a lot about them! My grandmother used to tell me stories all the time.

It's a pleasure to meet you, Cerise. My name is Bonnie! Welcome.

[lonely_wolf]

How important would you say they were in your world? Weird question, I know.

Thanks. It's... kind of unsettling, all this stuff going on and people being all friendly. But I guess it's better than the locals glaring at you.

[hoodwinking]

Children are less afraid of the world if they think that monsters and dragons only existed in a story.

Oh, you don't have to mind them. If they aren't helping you leave the island, they aren't important.

[lonely_wolf]

Yeah, I heard I need to leave soon anyway if I don't want to be stuck here forever after. That jewel, right?

[hoodwinking]

Right! You don't want someone else to find it first, right?

[lonely_wolf]

Not someone who's going to make a bad wish, anyway. Being away for a little while would be nice, but I need to get home as much as anyone.

[hoodwinking]

Is there something exciting happening in your world? Quite a lot of people want to get back home, as if it's more pleasing to be there than here.

[lonely_wolf]

If you count finally have control over our own destinies, yeah.

[hoodwinking]

"Finally?" Did someone else have control up until now?

[lonely_wolf]

Everyone had the same thing to go through. Go to school to learn how to follow the same part in the same story that your parents and grandparents did, over and over. But this girl in my year, Raven, didn't have it in her to become the Greatest Evil the World has Ever Known. So she didn't. She tore her page out of the Storybook of Legends, and everyone who agrees decided to go for their own destinies. When I left, the Land of Ever After was in total chaos! Or at least the school was.

[hoodwinking]

Wow, that's quite a story! And what guts your friend had to go against her family's work. Had you already decided what you wanted your destiny to be, aside from seemingly ruining your home?

[lonely_wolf]

My story isn't a bad one, but I just... It's nothing. But who says the Land of Ever After is ruined? People can do whatever they want now.

[hoodwinking]

It's dangerous, that's why! If you suddenly invoke free will into a community that never had it before, who knows what they could do. Just because your friend wasn't evil doesn't mean no one else was.

tempting fate there

[lonely_wolf]

Who would we have to fear? The Evil Queen's gone.

[hoodwinking]

Who knows? That's the scary part, it really could be anyone. Unfortunately, the world's too cruel for anything to end "Happily Ever After".

[lonely_wolf]

The world can't be that bad.

[hoodwinking]

Mm? And who would lead you to believe something like that?

[lonely_wolf]

Just drop it, okay!?

[hoodwinking]

Ah, sorry! Did I strike a nerve?

[lonely_wolf]

It's stupid. Just stop already. I have things to do.

*what things, she doesn't know, but*

[hoodwinking]

If you say so! Have a good day, Cerise.

[and she closes her journal. Oh, this is fun!]