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[ cora wakes up in the maze. her communicator sits a few feet away from her. she spends an hour or two trying to navigate her way out of it, stubborn enough to refuse clicking on said communicator and asking for help. but she seems to only be walking in circles. dead end after dead end — and didn't she just see that hedge ten minutes ago? — and while she's not one to give up and toss in the towel, she's feeling like there's no end in sight if she keeps this up. ]

[ she turns her communicator on and after some fiddling, flicks it to video. she shows the area she's in, which pretty much looks the same as it did a few seconds ago. hedge, hedge, and more hedge. ] Anyone got a guide for getting out of this maze on hand? I'm stuck.

[ the camera passes over her (her eyes are narrowed, her hair is a little messy, but there's no open wounds on her forehead, that's the important thing) as she continues to show her surroundings. it's a pointless thing to do, but, alas, it's the only thing she can think to do. cora sighs. she's alone and she doesn't like it one bit. ]

Not really sure about the shortcuts at the moment. [ lifting her shoulders, she admits a quiet defeat, and begins to walk to the left. it's only a few beats before she stumbles ] — Crap — [ and her head's slightly pounding from how hot she feels and from each step she takes resonating in her skull, before she cuts it off, perhaps waiting for a reply back. ]

[ but she'll continue to walk around, for that is what hales do: be stupid. ]

( OOC: grabbing cora's reserved for the teen wolf idiots, but come engage in some deadpan conversation with her / give her directions. )

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[ cora stares at her. ] Did you really say years?

[ she's spent years — six, to be in fact — away from her family. maybe she hadn't been trapped in a world like wonderland, but she'd been stuck in one where she believed to be completely and truly alone. being stuck here for years? it's not on cora's bucket list. ]

Yeah. I know.

[She frowns.]

I'm not exactly doing this whole welcoming thing right, huh?

You're being honest. Compared to my other welcome, this one rates higher on the useful scale.

[ considering she returned home to an uncle who was really the enemy and a brother who was lost, cora's still trying to play catch up back there. but at least lena's given her the crash course of wonderland. no surprises in store for cora hale, then, right? ]

Sorry if I'm not making things easy. I'm used to being dropped into places, like buildings, rather than … fictional worlds.

No, you're fine. It's good to ask questions about this place, and at least you aren't saying this is all impossible and I must be crazy. It makes explaining things easier. Not that that's the reason I'm doing this; it being easier is like a bonus.

From where I'm from, it should be impossible. [ new worlds? fictional being literal? the latter only applies to werewolves. they belong to mythology, not realism, but cora is a werwolf, and she knows, very well, that sometimes the impossible can be possible. derek's alive, after all, and that had been impossible for her. ] But weirder things have happened. And … [ with confidence: ] It's all about adapting.

Don't get very far if you say it's not possible when it is. [ she shrugs. ]

Yeah, I've seen some strange things too.

[Strange, awful, deadly... at least there's been some good in there too.]

You sound really good at adapting. It'll be okay here, especially with people you already know looking out for you.

[ cora's quiet for just a moment. she thinks of not saying this, but it's better to be a little vulnerable to someone you may not see ever again. not if derek had anything to do with it. ] Even if they remember things I don't?

You mean they come from your future, don't you?

[Not that Lena has anyone here from her home that she can compare notes with.]

Wonderland's... weird about how it grabs people. It takes them, then puts them back. Then brings them in all over again. So you never know just when you'll be taken and it's the same for your friends. Back home, I guess you don't notice a thing, though.

Considering the way things are going back home, someone would've noticed I was gone. [ a girl who isn't okay suddenly up and disappearing? she knows derek would notice without a heartbeat. ]

[ cora frowns. ] It's still weird. This whole future thing. It doesn't feel real.

Yeah it's definitely weird. I mean, I don't have anyone here from home, but I've heard other people talking and yeah, there's a lot of confusion at first.

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