Invasive Species (Inspired by Little Nightmares)

Act 4 - Flower Fields & Shady Oak Cabins ~ Narrator

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As the two girls landed on the sunkissed dirt of the flowery fields, they got up and celebrated. Jumping up and down, they ran towards the flower fields, through the tall grass running around, spinning and giggling through the tulips and daisies, taking in the warmth of the sun. But as they took a moment to take in the sun, it was cut short by the fall of rain.

They quickly ran to grab their items and fled towards a cabin nearby, once they got in, clothes drenched with water.They found a fireplace in this house, which was perfect to dry off near. Maude took off her straw hat, her big winter coat, and her boots and soggy socks. Lyra took off her gloves, dress, flats, and stockings. She took out the ribbon on her head and neck to tie her hair into pigtails while maude fixed her caramel messy ponytails.

"Why are you wearing boy's clothes?" asked Lyra, confused about Maude's clothing. "It was my father's long ago.." Maude replied. "Oh" Lyra took a pause and looked away from Maude, towards the floor. "Well mine's from an old doll I used to play with." She said, finishing up the first braid. "Oh...well, where are you from?" Maude asked, sitting down near the big inferno of fire, spreading her clothes out to evenly dry.

"From Genovia in Lilliput, I used to live near the ocean with my parents before...before I ended up here." Lyra said, as she finished the other braid, tying her silver-blonde hair with the ribbon. As Lyra fixed her bangs, making sure to cover her eyes she turned back towards Maude, "Where'd you get those from?" she pointed to scars on her arms and legs.

"I'll tell you about them if you tell me about yours." She points to the bruises on Lyra's elbows and the blood that dripped from Lyra's nose onto her camisole. Lyra noticed and tried to whip it off stubbornly as Maude grabbed a rag from her pantaloon pocket and handed it to Lyra. Lyra thanks Maude, "I like to say I'm so smart that I get these nosebleeds from me relaxing." She says as she wipes her pink-ish stained white camisole and the red leaking down her warm ivory skin onto her pink-ish red lips.

"I'd like to say it was from somewhere, but I'm pretty sure these are from the plant." she pointed to her honey colored legs, two red lines around her calf. "Does it hurt?" Lyra asks, moving her head side to side trying to see the cut better. "Not really, since we left I haven't really felt it." Maude says and she moves over to Lyra, "I'm guessing you were in the hospital?" Maude says, "Yeah, it's nothing really..we should dry off." Lyra says before getting up to sit in front of the fireplace, near their drying clothes. The awkward silence became deafening, and Maude sat near the fireplace next to Lyra, Lyra leaned on Maude's shoulder as they fell into slumber near the warmth of the fireplace.

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