Something Strange chapter 3

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            Something Strange

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Chapter 3

Cecelia was decidedly not calm when she found someone looming over her bed in the morning. She let out a high pitched scream that was designed by nature to inform her father of something foul being afoot—and that he better come immediately because Cecelia was not against shattering glass in her terror.

The dim light from the window illuminated the screaming child in the bed and Red Hood knew she had to quickly silence the girl. However, the strange situation meant that she did not want to do anything too drastic. There Red was, standing over the bed of some young girl when not moments before, Red had been comfortably at home in the woods.

Cecelia scrambled away from the red woman when she reached for her. Her father wasn’t coming in, which certainly was not comforting. Of course, then Cecelia remembered that her father was away at his one-weekend-per-month with the National Guard. Cecelia’s mother wasn’t coming in because of who-knew-why. When all this was over, Cecelia determined she would have to figure out why her mother hadn’t come to investigate.

Red said hastily, “Please, child, hush! I am Red, and I am lost! Strange magicks have brought me here, and I fear for my safety if I am discovered.”

Cecelia let her screaming die down. The strange red woman had an even stranger accent. “There’s no such thing as magic. What’re you suggesting? You broke into my house and attacked me!” Cecelia wondered if there really was such a thing as magic… Tristan was always saying magic had to be real otherwise how would so many people from different corners of the globe be able to think so similarly that they could create many stories on the same subjects?

Red resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She really had not even come close to attacking the girl. However, she decided it was best to utilize every tool available to placate the child. “I am sorry, but you scared me as much as I startled you… Forgive me…”

Cecelia nervously bit her lip. This was all such a bad idea. Strange women didn’t appear in her bedroom via magic. How could they? Magic wasn’t a real thing! “Who are you? Like, who’re you supposed to be, I mean? You sound like a princess. Well, you sound like what Tristan says princesses sound like, if that even makes sense.”

“My mother called me Little Red, for she was Mama Red,” Red explained. “And this is not my world.” She added. “I no longer know where I am. Can you tell me where this is?”

“Oh… This is Rose Chocoo. It’s a private, gated community in Wisconsin. My father founded it when I was still in my mother’s stomach, and he gathered the best and brightest, to create a future against the impending zombie apocalypse. We’ll all be safe here inside the gates, as long as we don’t make any mistakes like in Resident Evil, or World War Z. But it really all depends on what the zombies are like—if they’re the fast kind, or the slow kind…” Cecelia was more than happy to have something to talk about that could bring things back to normal! Stranger or not, Red didn’t seem truly like she wanted to hurt Cecelia… right?

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