We all fall down the rabbit hole

Chapter 5 The arrival

11:00 AM The bottom of The Grand Canyon
As we fell screaming Thomas still hadn't let go of my hand. Then we hit some sort of pressurized air because we stopped falling as fast. We started to drift through towards the bottom of the canyon and as we did shapes begin to form. I gasped it was a magnificent village! Full of temples and and houses and people. Thomas finally let go of my hand and stated flailing like a guppy."Thomas!" I screamed. He turned paler than death, he almost looked see through. He grabbed his throat.I reached out and when I did,I grabbed his hand and he stopped flailing trying to catch his breath." What" he tried to say but still couldn't seem to catch his breath. "I don't know."I replied.
By now we were almost on the ground maybe 50 feet above the ground. The pressurized air gave out somewhere around 25 feet above the canyon floor. As we fell screaming Thomas pulled me towards him, as if to shield me. When we hit the canyon floor I felt like everything was broken although I knew it wasn't.
The people from the small city had finally spotted the duo lying there broken on the hard ground. We just laid there, we were to broken to move.
"Who are you?"asked a man with a voice so deep I didn't know it was possible. I figured we should get up now and introduce ourselves. That didn't mean I wanted to but.... I struggled to my feet and thankfully so did Thomas. At least now I know he's not dead." I'm Alice and this is Thomas" I said carefully. I had no idea how weirdo's at the bottom of the Grand Canyon would react to strangers.
"I am James, and you two should be very much dead, but since your not it means you are one of us." said James. Wow. Wasn't expecting that at the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
There was a crowd behind the man.I knew by the way they were just watching James was the one in charge." What is this place?"Thomas asked before I could
"Eurasia."He replied."Isn't that just like two continents put together?"I asked not to nicely either. Thomas nudged me.Oops.
"Yes, but not the way you think. We're what you call Indians. We adopted the name Eurasia and branched ourselves off from the rest of the worlds' dangerous schemes. Making our own Utopia."This guy is a nut job I thought,but I had to be nice.""So, why should we be dead?" I asked quite frankly."
"Oh, yeah." James said "You and you," he pointed towards Thomas and I,"should be dead because there is a barrier of pressurized air about 25 feet above us and well if your not of our race it's suppose to kill you." Thomas and I gulped. Loudly.I didn't know what else to say so I just stood there.
"I need to talk to you in private Alice." James said after a minute of silence."Brianna, can you get Thomas something to eat or drink? I'm sure he's quite famished."
"No, problem" Brianna said kindly. Great,just my luck Thomas gets the nice lady and I get this guy.