Escape From the Dream (Previously Titled Reality Vs. Fantasy)

Escape

I woke up the next morning in the castle. WHOA! How am I still here? There's no way the time sped up, I know that for a fact that something's definitely wrong. What was this a coma?

Will she ever wake up mom? I haven't been able to give her the gift. If she's like this much longer we'll have to what?!?!

What is that noise? I gasped aloud, that was Mandy! What did they say? What are they gonna do to me? This is the most disturbing sentence I have ever heard. And I've heard a ghastkleme(a ferocious sneaky shape shifter with the power to kill in the flick if a claw.) say that it was gonna be a walking pencil so it could write before. And then it tried stabbing me in the heart.

I was shaky all the way down to the staff breakfast area where I spotted Muriel prattling with a guard who quickly scurried away as I wandered inside. I needed answers before I left but I guess I won't get any. So I ate a fair amount of biscuit  and drank some water. I then went off to my room to jump off the window ledge.

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I gasped as a man grabbed me by the arm and pulled me back inside. I attempted to turn and  do all I could to loosen the grip my unspecified captor had on me but he just squeezed tighted and held my head in place where I couldn't see him.

"You're coming with me," he ordered threateningly. I couldn't shake my head no and he just took my breathless wheeze as compliance and dragged me into the closest where he bound and gagged me.

"What were you thinking?! You cannot escape from here! You must be fired! If you caughtwe both would be executed!" he hissed quietly yet fiercely.  I still didn't know who it was. At first I assumed it was Muriel but now I know that was not the case. I only knew the royals and Muriel's voices so I was clueless as to who this was.

I struggled to escape but I remembered the magic and easily threw off my bonds and the man was no longer inmy reach as my power threw him to the ground. I inhaled sharply as I found that my captor was no one. This no one being a ghost. Wh-who are y-you?" my voice cracked.

Why I am the mighty messenger ghost," he stated proudly. I have been sent by Sir Muriel himself! He says there is too much danger lurking in this realm and he knows your story. He told me to bind you and leave pretending to be an actual human so he could come explain later.

As if on cue, Muriel slowly cracked open the door. To my surprise he wasn't surprised. He sent the ghost away and began a conversation with me,"Hello Alyson, might I aak where you were going?" I was startled at this, did he have to ask? I didn't think so since he knows my story so apparently as the ghost said. Oh great, now im sounding like a mental hospital patient. Just magnificent.

"I-uhhh I do-don't have t-to tell y-you now do I?" I replied in a tone I hoped was strong and confident.

"Oh on the contrary Miss Hyperfrog, I am the staff supervisor. I must know all actions and conversations of the staff. Now, would you tell me what you were doing jumping off a window ledge so high?" he insisted.

"I don't think I need to tell you, the ghost says yoy know my story, so I should be asking you what you are and why you care so much about me staying," I replied swiftly, I was tired of being told things were too dangerous. I wanted answers now. I was not going to back down to some bony, frail, gray, miserable, weak, untrusted perverted old man.

After a few moments of silence I pushed past him and flew out the wkndow before he could even touch me. I was leaving and I would find what dark magic that kept me asleep, crush it, and wake up. Then I could question my family about what they were planning to do to me. And why.