REVERIE: Twisted Reality

Day 6: Breakdown

Alexandria Lennon

I spent the morning idling by. 

It's not like time will pass by anyway.

I snacked on the white chocolates that Joker left me yesterday. I tried to use my brain but it wasn't working.

I was lost.

I realized I might not able to leave this place after all. I gave up all will. I decided to accept this ill-fated destiny.

I got out of my room with my chocolates. I'll walk around this mansion instead. Maybe I'll find an exit while I'm on it.

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I don't know how long I have been wandering around the mansion. 

'Not that it matters. Time wouldn't pass by anyways.'

But I found myself in the dining room. I wondered what was its purpose. It's not like the people in here eat anyways. I guess it's for decorative purposes only.

After appreciating the beautiful interior, I decided to leave.

But the moment I turned around there was a Nightmare right in front of me.

I froze.

I was petrified. I braced myself for whatever it was about to do to me.

"I... I am hungry. Give me something to eat." The Nightmare said with its low, scary voice. 

I slowly raised my hand to give it the white chocolate I was holding.

"...Thank...Thank you... Now... I... Happy." 

The Nightmare left with my white chocolate.

'Will we still continue to be happy in this place when we ran out of white chocolate?'

I fell on the floor as soon as it left. I let out a series of heavy breaths. 

I felt hot tears coming out of my eyes. 

'I won't be able to live here! I'll definitely lose my sanity!'

I kept crying in there, thinking about the unfairity of everything in my life.

 When I finally calmed down, I wiped off the tears on my face and angrily made my way to the living room.

'How can the people in this mansion live with these Nightmares?! How can that prince lock up everybody in here?'

As soon as I entered the living room I asked Joker, "How can your strange prince lock up people in this place?!"

I couldn't contain the anger in my voice. 

Joker gave me a sympathetic look. "You got it wrong, Alexandria. They are the original inhabitants of this place and therefore are your subjects."

I took a deep breath and tried to accept that fact. But I couldn't.

I sat down on one of the couches and rested my head there. I was thankful that Joker kept quiet the whole time. 

I tried to pick myself up but my mind was giving up.

I was quiet for some time before I sat down properly and looked at Joker. I pondered for some time before I stood up to leave. 

"Alexandria! Even if this is your reverie, I wouldn't suggest you go and try to order them around since you are new and have no control over this place. It could be fatal for you." He advised before I left.

'I don't even wanna acknowledge this is my reverie.'

-

I headed to the attic because I find him the least stressful creature in this place.

I was here for quite some time now and I was thankful he was silent.

I was playing with the pocket watch when he suddenly spoke, "I... want to go there. But I can't."

I curiously looked at him.

"Go where?"

He pointed outside the window, "The sky. I want to go back to the sky."

I kind of had a clue but I asked him anyway, "Why can't you go back?"

"One of my wings is chained, so I can't fly." 

He looked so sad but it kind of made me smile. 

I thought he was cold. But he was just lonely and innocent. Like a baby.

He's such a beautiful creature. I wonder what he is.

"Are you an angel?" I asked him.

"An angel? What is that? It's not something derogatory, is it?" He asked.

I chuckled a bit. 'What the hell's derogatory?'

How could this guy know derogatory and not an angel?

I checked my pocket watch and bid him goodbye.

As I made my way back to my room, I wondered if that albino is locked up by the prince too. But then, Joker said the original inhabitants of this place are my subjects.

'But could I even believe him?'