Selena in Bendy and the Ink Machine

Allison and Tom

I was laying on the bed in my cell when I heard this other Alice humming. Though I want to call her Allison since there was an Allison Pendle who replaced Susie as Alice Angel. It would make sense as to why they are two Alice's. I got up out of the bed and walked over to the gap in the wooden boards keeping me in.

"I know that song," I said

"Everyone knows that song. Who are you? Why are you here?" Allison asked

"I was invited by an old friend... and now I can't leave."

"Then you know more than we do. One minute, we don't even exist. Just... thoughts... And the next minute... this place."

"Are you gonna let me out of here?"

"Down here, strangers aren't good things. How can we trust you? We don't even know what you are."

"My name is Selena. I used to work here. I gave Joey the idea for Bendy."

"I... I honestly don't know my name... so they call me Alice. But I'm no angel. You go back and rest. We'll talk again later."

I went back to bed and just sat there. It wasn't long later when Allison told Boris that she would be gone for a few hours and to keep an eye on me while she was away. Boris would just watch me from a chair, banging his ax in his hand constantly. I don't think he likes me. When Allison came back, she gave me some pieces of paper, an ink well, and a quill to keep me occupied.

I would just draw Bendy, Boris, and anything else I could think of. When Allison gave me food later on, Boris didn't let me eat it. He just tossed it away before leaving the room. Rude. Sometime later, I was just watching Allison paint on the walls. Is she the one leaving all of those messages? 

"I know you're watching me, it's just... a little creepy," Allison said

"You're the one that writes on the walls," I said

"We all do. For some little souls down here is the only way they can be heard. But you don't want to touch the ink for too long! It can claim you... pull you back. That's how I met Tom. I was messing with things I shouldn't have been and he... he was here."

"Why do you call him Tom?"

"He just seems to respond to it."

"Well, I don't think he's very fond of me."

"Let me show you something. A while back, I was mapping out one of the upper levels when I noticed something reflecting off a piece of glass. I held up the glass, looked through and the wall behind me was a hidden message! Right there in plain sight! So I kept looking... and I found more hidden messages everywhere in the studio! But you can't see them with your eyes. Only through this! Take a look!"

I took the glass and started looking through it. Allison had a halo over her head now and behind her on the wall was a message saying 'she will leave you for dead'. That's reassuring. 

"I don't know who's leaving them, but I think they know how to get out of here," Allison said

"What does it all lead to?" I asked

"Nowhere. I followed them for a long time... just leads me in circles," I put the glass down, "I don't think I am meant to leave this place, Selena. But maybe, you are."

"Alice, please let me out of here."

"Tom thinks you're dangerous."

"And what do you think?"

"I-I think you are the hope are we waiting for. Go to sleep. Maybe tomorrow will be better."

I just took a nap. When I woke up, Allison was scolding Tom for leaving because Bendy saw him. Now it was only a matter of time until he finds us here. She waved at me before going back to fixing Tom's arm. And he still didn't like me. I went back to my nap when I was woken up by a loud bang. I got up to see Allison and Tom outside my cell.

"We can't leave her here! Not with the Ink Demon right outside the door!" Allison told Tom

"What's going on?" I asked

"He's coming. We have to move on!"

There was another bang so Allison asked Tom to help her get me out. She started trying but Tom put a hand on her shoulder and shook his head. Allison apologised and ran out with Tom! Well, the message on the wall was right. She will leave me for dead. I looked through the glass and looked around my cell. The walls said things like, 'it's in the vault', 'let me out of here', and 'so many questions'.

My bed even had a coffin on it. But the stuff on the wall gave me a hint on how to get out. An arrow on the wall pointed to a spoon and told me to take it. I did and it opened a secret door to a toilet. I looked through the glass again and it pointed to the toilet telling me to look inside. I opened the lid to see a pipe inside. I took it and used it to leave my cell at last. I walked out of the open door and went to follow the two but they were already gone. Great.

On my way down the hallway, an ink creature popped up but I bashed him back into his puddle. And that's what I dealt with all the way down the hallway while occasionally looking through the glass for any messages on the wall but there was nothing. At the end of the hallway, I saw a boat dock and a boat leaving down a large pipe. That has to be them. I released the last boat into the ink and claimed aboard.

I pressed a button to make it go and used a lever to go. And, goodness, this was slow. I got to a larger area but the boat stopped because something was stuck in the paddlewheel. I used the pipe to clear it when I heard something come out of the ink. It was a giant hand. There was a boat near it which the hand took and made it disappear.

I quickly cleared out the paddlewheel and started the boat again, leaving this area. The paddlewheel would continue to get jammed and the hand kept following me so I had to move quickly. I just wish the boat was faster so I didn't have so much anxiety about this oversized hand. But, thankfully, I made it to a dock before the hand could get me.