Tape number 1.

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"I fell down here just moments ago...it doesn't seem so bad. The people here are of...*questionable* sanity...What's wrong with these people..They all seem to be mad...maybe they are. I will investigate further before I make my final judgements on these people. I intend to make contact with at least one of them. Perhaps that will give me a better idea of their nature."

The tape shut up. All went silent. Then static. Then speech.

"Update. I made contact with a small, white rabbit. It was harmless. Though it kept mumbling these words 'Your time draws near Alice Kingsley. Watch out.' How did it know my name...? Weird. Whatever. I'll continue my travel following the path of the white rabbit. It's going to take me somewhere...it's house I think. Weird. A rabbit with a house. Not everythin- Huh..Sorry...Not everything in this town seems right and that's definitely not something you see everyday...Compared to what I've seen so far, it's nothing against the ordinary"

The tape clicked off once again, for longer. It left a white noise in the silence of the room. We skipped forward to the next lines of speech.

"The rabbit's house, much like up...wherever I came from. I don't remember it's name. I just asked the rabbit where I am. He said this town is called...'Wonderland' he said it's where people come...to die. I'm probably just tired..but I think he stared at me..the whole time I was there. This place gets weirder and weirder by the second. 'Where people come to die' that's all that's going through my head...did he mean it? Am I going to die here? Of course not...that's ridiculous..right? Nothing can kill you in a dream..unless this isn't a dream? I don't know. I can't think straight. Maybe I...I just need to rest. My current status: Breathing. Barely. Goodnight."

We thought that was the end and were about to turn it off when the voice started up again.

"I couldn't bring myself to sleep. Every time I closed my eyes. I heard a different sound. Leaves crumbling around me, crazed laughter or the worst, a revving chainsaw. How do I sleep? How can I sleep when I don't know if I'll even wake up? This was getting more and more ridiculous every minute. I was worried about nothing. A talking rabbit told me my time was almost up...For all I know he could of been saying my time here is almost up. He might not of been saying I was due for death. Maybe I'm just overthinking it all. I definitely just need to rest...I should try again...I doubt I will be able to fall asleep fully but it's worth a shot I guess. Status: Breathing. Goodnight."

That was the end of the first tape. We pulled it out of the radio and placed in a bag labelled evidence. The story had began to unfold. The town of Wonderland was beginning to sound like a mad house..but maybe she had made this tale up. Like a long winded suicide note. Maybe she had set it all up. Maybe...but not likely.

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