I'm trying not to think about what happened this evening because it makes me mad so I'm just gonna write this thing again for @saytrrose
His eyes fluttered open.
He was laying in an open field, a beautiful blue sky and rolling clouds slowly moving by above him.
Where was he? What happened last time? He was... In the circus right?
"____ hurry up!"
He heard someone speaking, calling out his name but he couldn't quite make it out.
"Are you going to sleep all day?"
He slowly began to sit up, something felt... Different.
His body felt different.
He looked at his hands "... When..." They weren't how they normally are... No that's not right, they were BACK to what they were... Human.
"___ Come on! We'll miss it!"
He looked over, squinting his eyes in the light at who was calling him, he couldn't quite make her out, but her voice.... He knew who that was. His chest rose and he felt his breath hitch, butterflies raging on in his heart.
"Queenie."
"Oh not that nickname again." She laughed.
He stood up, walking towards her "I thought you had gone..."
"Gone?"
"Yes, you were with me in the circus and then-" He noticed something. Why couldn't he get closer? No matter how close he tried to get, she was always just ut of reach.
"Queenie."
"Come on, we have to get going you know, you promised."
"Promised?"
"We were going to play that game today."
He jolted awake, hand grabbing at his chest as he shook, tears streaming down his eyes as he glanced around.
He was back, the circus...
He jolted from his bed, grabbing at a set of draws near his bedside and yanking them open, throwing item after item out before wrapping his hands around a notebook.
He flipped it open quickly and inside seemed to be the writings of someone, not his own, someone he knew.
Each writing had information about this game, about the exit, about the npcs, about caine, about the company.
And then he got to the end of the book, a letter inside.
'My king.
I do not know if you will ever come back to me, I do not know if we will ever escape.
Each day I watch as you slip further from me, each day I regret playing this game with you, pushing you into it for the sake of some research.
If I've ever abstracted I am leaving this note with you, I think you will forget me as soon as I am gone... But I am okay with this, it is for the best.
I hope one day your mind may return, the others think ill of you, an old man who has lost his mind but they do not know you like I do.
You need to return, you need to remember your research.
I am sorry...
Forever yours my love.
Your Queen.'
He shook for a moment, a hand rubbing at his head and he clutched at the notes.
And then.
His mind was gone.
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