Black In Black

I Think You're Cute, Ellie, Girl On Fire

I woke up the next morning, knowing my eyes had to be red and sunken in. My throat felt raw and my limbs felt numb. 

I sat up, looking around the room. a window I didn't notice before was on the wall to my left, shining a diamond pattern of colors over my sheets. Red sheets- pretty much fitting the rest of the theme of The Pole. The side table to the left had my cup on it, along with a bowl of dried herbs I didn't want to think on how Bunny got them into my system in time to save me.  I didn't want to think of the incident at all. Instead, I pulled the blanket off me and stupidly jumped up to stand like I normally would. Instead of walking to the door, I had to fall back to a sitting position on the bed. With my head now throbbing from the sudden rush of oxygen, I stood more carefully and softly padded over to the door. Before I got there, I caught myself in the refection of one of the floor-to-ceiling cabinets and saw I was wearing a very familiar hoodie, it was Jacks. Just more worn out and faded just a bit. Not to mention that it was pretty big on me. My fingers only poked out from the bottom of the sleeves and the hem of the hoodie was borderline past my butt. At least  I still had my jeans, a worn black pair of skinnies.

Other then that I felt pretty normal, and looked it too besides my face being pretty pale and my eyes looking dark and sunken in from crying. I hated knowing that I caved and cried last night... I always knew crying was a sign of weakness. You only cry when you're vulnerable, right? At least I held it in when I was in front of My dad and the Guardians. Weakness is one thing I'd hate to show.

Shaking my head, I padded out the door and down the hallway.  I Found myself at the main floor, where most of the toy building was happening. I walked through the bustling tables and studding the toys. Soon I made it to the elevator and took a short ride up to the Globe room, top floor.  I didn't really mind wandering around by myself. Exploring was always better when you didn't have a guide to tell you what to look at or where to go, without made it an adventure.

So instead of trying to find someone to cater me around, I wandered through the floors and halls, telling the yetis that I liked their work which earned me happy grunts from them. Even the elves were trying to stay out of my way. One, who seemed to have dipped itself in a sparkly rainbow at some point, decided to follow me while it held its tongue out its mouth, also all sparkly and rainbow-y. I didn't mind, he was kinda cute.

It was too soon when I ran face first into Bunny. He seemed out of breath a bit, like he just got here. He had unexpectedly knocked me backwards on accident, and to make up his paw had reached out and snatched my arm to help me stand straight again before I fell.

"Hey, you're up. How do yea feel?"

"Good, better now I'm walking around,"  I said honestly. He smiled.

"Good. Well I bet you want to go sort things out with Pitch-"

No! No, he uh, I think I'l let him blow his steam and calm down, give him a few days."

He nodded, then shrugged and gestured me to follow him. "Alright. Well in the mean time you have to stick with me."

"Why?" I asked, walking next to him as he made his way to the elevator.

"He pointed his thumb at himself. "Doctors orders, You should stick with one of us, at least. Its only me and North here at the Pole at the moment, and North is busy doing who knows what.  Its just to keep an eye on you, make sure you're really all right. Sheila, you lost all

of of blood and the Herbal medicine's side effects aren't helping that very much. We just don't want you fainting on us or something, you know?"

We had made our way to the Sleigh room, Where the ground was cold and solid dirt. I nodded, not knowing if Bunny saw me or not. None the less he tapped his large foot on the dirt and a hole had erupted below it. inside, were tunnels.