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Silver lay on the branch of a tree, looking over the large clearing that was covered in flowers and lush green grass. While enjoying the view, she spotted something out of place. If she squinted, she could see a figure staring at her from a distance. She couldn’t clearly see it, being that it was concealed by a black cloak, but she could see two black eyes that bore into her grey ones. The figure seemed to beckon her, wanting her to follow. Silver didn’t know why, maybe it was just out of curiosity, but she began to walk towards it. As she walked forward, the figure began to walk away. Like Alice following the white rabbit, she followed the person into the woods that were just behind the clearing. Though as she entered them, stepping on a pile of leaves, the ground under her gave in and she fell into a hole. She closed her eyes and concentrated on herself and with her powers, felt herself become lighter as she fell, so that when she landed she would not be injured.

When she landed, she found that she was surrounded by large stone walls that seemed to never end as the climbed up. She immediately knew that it was a maze. When she looked at the spot where she had come from, she found that it was no longer there, replaced by a sky full of stars. This confused Silver, seeing that it was the middle of the day. Despite her confusion, she walked on turning every which way, hoping to find anyone to explain why she was there.

He'd been out for a heist, though it was so late it really bordered on being early, when he fancied seeing someone drop a gold coin. He pounced on it at once, before finding another one. And another. He didn't question the fact it seemed to form a trail, until he realized that the black shimmer ahead of him was someone in a black cloak--leading him somewhere.

He backed off a bit, wariness crossing his face as he flicked the end of his chain collar over his shoulder. But then the man was gone, and where he had been, were three gold coins.

Nebi cautiously approached them, his senses on high alert, but he saw nothing to discourage him from taking them. So he reached out, and about the time he grabbed them, found himself toppling head-long into a hole he could have sworn hadn't been there thirty seconds ago.

He fell with a cry--and fell, and fell, and fell. He still clutched the coins, desperately, as if they could slow his fall, but at last he landed on hard ground with a clank. Mostly the bag of coins he had tucked at his back had broken his fall. And for a moment he lay where he was, gasping for air and trying to work out whether he was alive, or dead, or just mortally wounded.

When he gathered his courage, he sat up and discovered he'd only just twisted an ankle--nothing too bad, though it was painful. And looking at the concrete walls, he scowled. "Last time I go following a trail of coins," he muttered, using the wall to brace himself on his feet. Heading to the far end of the room he was in, he discovered it opened into a maze of hallways leading in various directions.

Welp, no time like the present to find an escape. He headed down the nearest hallway, rounded a corner, only to be brought up short by--a wall. A dead end. It was going to be a long night.

Elizabeth sat outside on the front porch of her house, when she saw a man in a black cloak standing across the street staring at her. Sort of scared, she stood up and walked backward toward the front door. Just as she was about to go inside, she saw the man beckon to her. Still scared but curious she ran over to the man, who then began to run away. Overtaken by curiosity, liz followed behind him until suddenly he ran into a large doorway. Looking into the doorway she didn't see anything but darkness. "Well, curiosity killed the cat." Liz ran into the darkness after him and suddenly found herself surrounded by stone walls except in front of her. A sign right next to her read "welcome to the maze."

Silver stopped walking for a moment when she heard a strange sound, as if something had hit the ground. She hesitated for a second, her curiosity got her into this and the last thing she wanted was for something else bad to happen. However, curiosity won out in her mind and she walked to where the sound came from. There, she found coins scattered all over the ground, as if a money bag had fallen and exploded. The was the first thing that she though happened, until she heard another voice. SHe frowned and followed the sound.

She stopped just short of where it came from and peered around the corner to see a blond haired person standing there at a dead end.

Nebi turned back around to find that he wasn't alone. With a startled yelp, he sprang back, his hands held defensively in front of him as his back fetched up against the wall.

"Who are you? What do you want with me?" he demanded. "Why did you bring me here?"

Of course, after the questions left his lips, did he realize that he was just talking to a somewhat younger-than-he'd-expect jailor. He sighed.

"Please tell me you found a way out. I'll give you this," he held up a gold coin, "if you do." His eyes glittered hopefully.

Sliver frowned at his request, but kept a calm face. She walked out more, her smoky blue dress slightly flowing behind her. 'I don't know whats going on either' her voice echoed in his head. She stood in front of him, one hand pushing down his with the golden coin, as if to reject his offer and the other gripping the fabric of her dress. 'I'm sorry, but I'm not the one who put you here, and I do not know a way out.'

Elizabeth ran through the maze, her hair flowing behind her. She had heard the voices and hoped that if she found them shed also get some answers. After a long five minutes of dead end hallways and wrong ways she found the two people. "Um... Excuse me? Are you two the ones that brought me here? If so, what do you want?" She asked sheepishly to the two people.

Nebi went from hostile to afraid in sheer seconds when the girl approached him. Actually, it wasn't so much that she approached him, it was the fact that he could hear her in his head.

"Wh-what is this? Get outta my head!" he yelled, drawing his hands back to bring them up to his temples and sliding down the wall to where he landed with a thump. "Get outta my head!"

Then another voice that was actually a voice--struck him and he looked up hopefully--to find another stranger. He swallowed. "I-I have no idea where we are--but it appears be a maze. And we're all stuck."

(OOC: Let's try to keep with a posting order so no one gets skipped?)

"Oh. And here I thought I might find some answers as to how I got here." Liz moped and then thought for a minute. "Did you two happen to see anything odd before arriving here? Like a man in a cloak leading to a doorway?"

(Alright what should be the order?)

Silver nodded, cranking her head to the side to get a better look at the girl. Then she looked back to the boy.'If you want me to stop, then I'll stop.' She said to him so that only he could hear her and not the other girl. Then she turned fully to the girl so that she would not bother him.
(Um, lets see...1. Silver 2. Nebi 3. Elizabeth since that's the order that everyone replied. That sound good?)

Nebi shuddered. He wasn't a fan of anything that went into his mind. He had a lot of secrets that he wanted to keep hidden about his past and his present.

He relaxed a little when she withdrew from speaking to him--not yet realizing that that was the only way she could.

Glancing back to the newer girl he nodded. "Yeah, I noticed someone leaving trails of coins--and when I tried to, er, catch up to him" he had done no such thing, "I fell down here." He tucked the gold coin he'd previously held out to Silver, back into his pocket. "My name's Nebi, by the way."

"Elizabeth belnades. That's my name, anyway. I had seen a man in a cloak who seemed to be beckoning to me. I followed him and I got to a doorway and found myself here." Elizabeth said.

Silver nodded and gave her a face that showed sympathy, and told her that the same exact thing had happened to her, then pointed to the ceiling where she came from.

Nebi nodded when Elizabeth Belnades introduced herself. Actually her last name was more easy to remember.

Then Silver was silently doing something and he sighed in irritation. "So apparently we all landed here after following some stranger. Great. How do we get out?" He turned to Elizabeth. "Bel, you said there was a door, right? Can you get us back to that?" Hopefully she didn't mind the nickname.

Elizabeth shook her head no. "When I turned to look for the door so I could leave it was a wall. So I'm afraid as far as I know theres only one exit."

Silver stopped pointing and started to look around, observing the area. The walls reached up to the ceiling, giving them no chance to climb. That meant they could only go through the maze. She walked past Elizabeth and looked around the corner. She bit her bottom lip and continued onward a few steps before turning to the other as if to say 'are you coming or not?'

Nebi sighed. "That would be too easy, of course. Finding a door. If it is a maze, then we'll have to solve it."

He looked up at the walls to where the ceiling was. Of course there was a ceiling, no chance to cheat in here, and he heard the chain around his neck clink a little.

"One sec," he muttered, when the mind-speak girl moved away from him, to collect the coins he'd lost upon his landing. Then that done, he dropped a coin onto the path they'd just come from.

It was a perfectly good waste of a coin, but if it meant getting out of here in one piece, then he was all for it. He could steal another day. Right now, he wanted to live to see the exit. "So we know where we came from," he said to no one in particular. "Let's go find that exit!"

"Right." Elizabeth smiled and began to walk with the other two.

Silver stayed in the front, tracing the wall with her finger tips silently. After a couple steps, she felt the ground give out from under her. Her eyes widened in shock as her body started to drop. She reached out and grabbed the side of the crater just in time to stop herself. She hung there, her big eyes blinking as she tried to gather her thoughts together.

Nebi reacted instinctively as well, reaching out to grab Silver as she started to fall. Once he was sure she was safe, he released his hold on her arm.

"Sorry," he murmured, looking down at the pit that had suddenly formed. "That looks kind of like what I fell into when I landed here."

He reached into his pouch of gold coins and flipped one into the hole, listening for the sound of it to land. His eyes grew wide when it seemed to take forever before he heard the distant clang of the coin against the ground. "...definitely not the same hole."