challenge post [153]

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Challenge: [153] Summer
Title: Wonderland
Word Count: 502
Summary Alice and Sora get closer and curiouser.

Alice believes in other worlds.

“Oh, we have that here too, did you know that? Sweeping changes in the environment, and new splashes of colour… It’s when the trees decide to turn their backs on the rest of us. Have you ever seen the back of a tree? I think not. It’s not the time for it yet. When the Doorknob screams (which is about once in a blue moon – have you ever seen a blue moon? It’s not really… blue) all the roads change, and once I found a line of pretty-in-pink cottages; I hadn’t seen them before! And you should see Wonderland when the Unbirthday comes around. Nothing,” she adds, very decidedly, “is ever quite the same here.”

Alice has asked, and Donald and Goofy have given, and now… she conquers. She has that dreamy yet assertive manner of speaking, which usually annoys anyone without Sora’s innocence or Goofy’s patience. At this Donald engages her in a mini-banter about what seasons really are, right down to the technicalities of the matter, but because Sora is not one for details he turns away to Goofy, eagerly;

“So the one we have on Destiny Islands – my home, I mean – it’s called… summer, right? It’s warm and sunny all the time…” As though Goofy and Donald have been with him his whole life, and they are able to see, as clearly as he does, the place that lies nearest to his heart. Of course Goofy can only shrug.

“If it’s warm and sunny all the time, it wouldn’t be a season. Your Destiny Islands would not be seasonal, you know,” Alice says thoughtfully, chewing on a strand of hair as she sits down next to Sora. Perhaps she understands more than she has appeared to, after all. She has tired of her debate with Donald, who wanders off to vent his frustration – unwisely – on a mysterious clump of purple grasses near the tea party. It does not take kindly to the Fire spell and smacks him hard in the face with tiny, dice-like fruits.

Sora barely hears her – his head is still full of Destiny Islands – and he leans back, tucking his arms above his head, staring up into the canopy over them. “Why did our teachers never tell us about stuff this important?” he muses, but even before Alice gives the answer, in her mildly matter-of-fact way, Sora knows it.

“If it didn’t exist in your world, they wouldn’t have known about it.”

He’s silent for a long while, searching for a glimpse of afternoon rays behind these strange, gigantic trees that he tries to imagine are relatives of coconut or palm ones. Surely Wonderland has a sun. A sky. Clouds. Large bodies of water. If he only looks hard enough…

My world was so tiny.

Sora whispers the word again, as Alice shifts closer, now examining the spikes that are Sora’s hair, as though attempting to prick her finger on them. She echoes him.

Summer. Sum-mer. Summ-er. Su-mmer. Summmmer. Summeeeeer. Summerrr.

Comments

[oreo-81369-17.livejournal.com]

wooooah~ ahahah the description of wonderland during summer is hella toight~ hahahah*nodnod* and the way it was written~ hahaha it's like...they alll don't really know what they are talking about hhhhahaha♥

[fated-bliss.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I agree with the last line of your comment ;)

[oreo-81369-17.livejournal.com]

ahahahh <.<'''' were they hiiiiiiiigh~ ahahhahhha

[dreamer1789.livejournal.com]

I like this a lot. The interactions are great and all the stuff about Wonderland feels spot-on. ^^

[fated-bliss.livejournal.com]

Thank you (: Wonderland is a, well, wonderful spot to... stretch things. XD