(Ugh I just got out of there finally. It was awful. Oh dang it now that I can see better I can see I am covered in blood, dang it.

Hm, I've never been outside myself before. The forest is beautiful at night.) Daisy thought to herself.

There was soft weeping for a distance.

(What is that sound? Is that crying? Who would be out here this late?)

Daisy slowly made her way to the sound and behind a tree she saw a little girl with blond hair and a pretty blue dress. She only looked about 5 or 6 around Daisy's age at least.

"HI!" Daisy said with a lot of enthusiasm.

"AH!" The girl screams from being started.

"Hey, sorry! My name is Daisy." She extends her hand for the young girl to shake.
"My name is Alice..." she hesitated to shake Daisy's hand but she gave in and shook it.

Daisy helped Alice to her feet, and Alice was about a head taller than Daisy.

"Oh wow, you tall..." Daisy said as she felt a little intimated by her.
"No your just short!"
"I'm not short! Doc said I will grow very tall!"

Alice glanced at Daisy's ears. They were pointed. "Huh? Why do your ears look funny?" Alice said.

"They don't look funny look at yours! Yours are all smooth and weird!" Daisy shouted.

"Shh! Keep your voice down there are things in this forest!" Alice shushed Daisy.

"Huh? There's nothing out of the ordinary here." Daisy said with a puzzled look.

"Yes, there is! There's like this duck that is made out of wood! I followed it here." She said.

"Huh? A duck? What's a duck?" Daisy replied.

"I'll show you." Alice took Daisy by the hand and started to guide her to where the duck was last seen.

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They went to the spot near a small stream where Alice claimed the duck was the last scene.

"It was here I swear!" Alice exclaimed.
"It might have walked away."
"I think so too."
The duck walked up beside Daisy and pecked the back of her heel. Daisy let out a scream and jumped onto Alice. "What are you doing?!" Alice yells.

Daisy points to the duck and Alice screams. The duck looks at them confused. "Wait! That's violet! That's my friend! She's a Palisman that had gotten abandoned."

Daisy got off of Alice and knees next to the duck and scratched its head.

"What is a Palisman?" Alice asked with pure confusion.

"It's an animal made out of a type of wood. But look isn't she adorable!"
"Yeah I guess so, but why does she have cracks in her?"
"Her last witch wasn't very nice to her."
"Witch?"
"Yeah everyone on the boiling isles are witches. Don't you know that?"
"What? You're a witch! I thought witches were ugly old hags!"
"Oh uh? Thank you?"

Violet (the duck palisman) jumps into Daisy's lap. "Awe how cute," Daisy said.

"Does it bite?"
"No, she doesn't bite! Plus she has no teeth."
"Oh yeah."
Alice sits next to her and looks at the duck. "So you had no clue she was a duck?"
"Nope!" Daisy said with a huge grin.
The moonlight shines on them so now Alice can finally see Daisy much better. She sees that Daisy has blood on her.

"Oh, my goodness are you ok?!" She asked with full concern and worry. "Hm? Oh, this isn't mine don't worry." Daisy said with a smile.

"Who's is it?" She asked a bit scared now. "Oh, Doc! It's his. He tried to do more tests on me but I freaked out and he went to sleep for a while."

"What?" Alice looked a bit scared visibly. "Oh! He's ok don't worry! He just spilt some blood from tests all over me when I hit his head!" She said trying to cover up her mistake in her choice of words. "Oh thank goodness. Because if he was gone then you would be some sort of killer." She gives a little chuckle.

"Heh- yeah..." Daisy chucked awkwardly.

(Thank goodness I lied... she would hate me if she knew what happened...)

Daisy lets out a sigh after she thinks this. "So um. Where did you come from? You don't look like you live around here." Daisy said.

Alice looked a little confused. "I'm from Gravesfield? I didn't travel too far from home, did I?"
"You're in Bonesborough."
"What? That sounds made up. Where am I."
"I wasn't joking? I've never heard of Gravesfield."
Alice looked even more confused that this girl had no idea what town she was originally from.

"That's weird... you sure you're from the demon realm?" Daisy asked.
"What's that?"
Daisy looked at her in just shock. "Wait a minute are you not even from here at all?" Daisy asks a question once more.
"I don't think so. I just followed the ducky and I found myself here."
"Her name is Violet," Daisy spoke as she petted Violet gently.
"Ok, ok. I'm sorry."
"So what are you if you're not a witch?"
"Huh? I'm a human? What else would I be?"
"You human?!" Daisy shouted a little.
"Yeah?"
"You're from the human realm?!"
"Yeah? I guess so?"
"Alice, you're weird."
"Says you! You're a weird witch person!" Alice said as she tried to defend herself.

There was quiet yelling from the distance. The voice yelled "Daisy! Daisy! Come back!"

Daisy knew who it was... it was the Doc she had been talking about. The one who had done tests on her.

Daisy turns Violet into a staff and then grabs Alice's hand. "We have to run." Daisy's voice sounded full of fear. "What the! What happened to Violet?!"

Daisy ignored her and started dragging Alice behind her as they ran...

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