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"My dearest Lyria,
Please take this magnifying glass, the mirror, and the chocolate (I know how you love that brand, they have that rice paper wrapping...) as a token that I am yet alive. I have not been killed, but I must tell you that you should not consider me alive. I have no way of returning. Farewell, my child.
Please do NOT use the magnifying glass at any cost. Especially take care that you do not look into a mirror with it. I have said too much, but let me just say that this device has something to do with why I am damned away from you, my loving family. You are after all my only child left, and without your mother we are few, but still a family. I knew that you would be hurt more than anything with news of my going missing. But please know that I am alive and you are not alone. I admonish you to not attempt to find me, as I am not in any place that can be reached. I only wished to let you know that you are not yet an orphaned woman.
Love
Dad"
That is what the note said, wrapped around a tiny canister and tied with a bow. It somehow appeared in the mirror, in the downstairs servant quarters. Some of the other servants say that it is where a young woman used to have her room, but it has been decades since that family lived here. Indeed, says the washer woman who works with you day in and day out (Elanda) the family was pronounced dead. Not only the father, but the daughter too, also went missing. Thus the house going for auction. A rich plantation owner bought the place, bringing his army of shall we say, house servants? He is a distant and kind man, despite the disreputable opinion many like him come to deserve.
But that canister indeed has the mirror in it, and a magnifying glass.
What do you do with it?
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I go in there as I meet up with her as I look around the place to see what was there that was in my dress as I meet up with Lyriah "so how do we change my dress to fit me?" I ask her as I was looking around where we were at.
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As you go inside, you enter a room of some old house, a window to outside. There are snowflakes falling against the window. In the room is a manikin with a gray blank, non ornate dress with nothing on it except that it is the same length and cut as your current dress. There is also a manikin with ribbons on it that look very similar to yours, as well as the lace. And on the table there is a bowl of blue and white paint swirled a little.
"want to change the color at all?" She said, looking at the bowl. She looked at the neutral one that was the same in trim and length. The manikin was a blank-faced clone of you in height and shape. "Hmmm this is another layer down I guess" she said and looked at the dress with her glass. There was a roll of cloth, a statue of a person covered in a strange blocky garment that almost looked like a robe, a book, and strangely-- a bright red set of lingerie. "hmmm see what has to go?" she said.
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"Um the is it the set of lingerie or is it the book?" I say kind of confused "anyway I would like to change my clothing color to pink instead of blue" I said as I was tired of always wearing a blue dress all the time when I was working
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She shook her head. "it's immodest silly, so the lingerie should be removed because it is so ribald and uncouth" she pulled it out. "the book appears to be about the particular style. I'll leave that there" she pulled it out and the globe shrank, leaving the dress form on the manikin. The dress then grew longer and became looser and better fit for someone of that size and shape, giving room for a mature female body, but still being modest. Lyriah went to the paint and opened it with the glass. There was a prism with light shining through it on a table, showing all the colors. There was also two cups of white liquid on the table at different parts of the spectrum, one blue and one blue. She pulled the blue one down to the pink part of the spectrum, coloring the liquid pink. She pulled her hand out and it closed. The paint swirls changed to pink and white. "Anything else? Frills?" she walked to the other mannikin. "it looks fine to me, but I figure while we're here if you wanted to change anything you could."
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"well I always wanted to have clothing that had frills" I say curiously but then brought up a question "um what would have happened if you used the magnifying glass on me if I was still wearing the dress when you used it?" I ask her
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She giggled, "silly, it already has frills, but you could add more if you like" She felt some of them between her finger and thumb. "it would just make it so I could go inside of you. It would send me to the garden because you would be the subject. And you would have someone inside you somewhere..." she smirked.
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"I see well thanks for telling me" after some thinking "let's add some more frills to this dress if you don't mind" I say as I blush a bit as I let you do the changes to my outfit plus I really loved frills on a dress so a few more wouldn't hurt
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She nodded and opened up the frills. There was a book there as well and a ream of the right kind of cloth and a flower. "hmm interesting." She reached inside her satchel and pulled out a glowing number 2. She turned toward you and said, "Be right back. " and stepped into the globe. The globe then closed, leaving the frills on the manikin. A moment later they began to multiply and split and grow until there were twice as many of them. There was a burst of light and she emerged again. "there, just needed to place that number 2 inside the bolt of cloth. that did the trick, looks like." she looked at you. "Are you cold yet? let's get you a dress, shall we?"
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"yes let's get myself dress again" I said as we head over back to the dress that was changed as I put it on in front of Lyriah "so how do I look" I ask her as I give a little bit of a twirl with my new dress on my body
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You were standing on the map now, having left the dress area. She smiled. "it looks charming. You look marvelous. I love how it fits you now!" she smiled blushing.
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"thanks so what should we do, should we head back to the garden or do you have a certain place you want to go to first?" I ask as she is holding the magnifying glass and crystal ball she can pretty much take us where she wants to go
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"I've been trying to find my dad for a long time. I think it's been years, but I can't tell. Maybe we should go back to the real world" she said solemnly.
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"back in the real world I was a slave" I said depressively "I was treated harshly and was forced to work all day, going back to the real world isn't really a good thing for me" I say as I give a suggestion to Lyriah "maybe we can look for your father together"
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Lyriah looked at you calmly, "you know, I won't make you go back. I'm only here to find my father. I can keep doing that with your help, sure. Let's do that. For now I have no idea where to look though. So I'm going to get out to the real world in case he got out and check around. I'll come back for you okay? you just stay put, okay? We can travel somewhere you like first..."
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"okay, well I just want to go back to my garden for now, after your done with the real world come back here okay" I ask still not wanting to go to the real world as I'm afraid what they might do to me if I come back there
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She nods and smiles, "let's go to the garden and I'll be back in a while. don't wander too far though. Stay close to the place you came in." She used the crystal ball and a glow enveloped the area. Suddenly you were standing outside of the house fruit in the garden. "There, hey this place is beautiful" she walked around for a moment and then waved, "don't go far now" and then the light enveloped the area and she was gone.
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"well I guess I can look around this area I guess till she gets back" I wait for her to come back by looking around the garden hoping something different was here for me to find but since I don't have the magnifying glass I can't look into any of the objects so I just look to see if I miss anything around the area
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As you walk around, you notice that there is a door to the outside of the garden. There is also a tunnel in the glass where the stream leaves the garden and goes outside. You can tell it's night time now, and that it's a landscape covered in tall trees outside.
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"well I should wait for her to come back and we can explore together" I decide to look for a place to take at least a small nap so I can get some rest with it being night time now and it could pass the time as I go to someplace comfortable to lay down and rest
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(This will be my only post for the day. sorry for being so long. I have had a long day)
There was a ripple and Lyriah suddenly was revealed as if from behind a curtain. "wow, I'm back...things have changed since I've been gone. It seems that time has gone by so much that I no longer live at that house...and there are negros working as servants there against their will. What a savage world we live in. When I lived in that house we didn't have that." She shook her head, one hand on her bag. She walked over to you and noticed you looked like you wanted to explore. "you know...each place we visit with that glass is a whole world?"
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(gotcha)
"I kind of noticed when I went into that bubble with the globe in it anyway do you want to check out one of the worlds inside the trees the only world I've been to was that globe but I didn't really check one tree" I say pointing to the tree with fish bowls for fruit with fish swimming around in it "I mean I can guess that the trees that I've been into represent my body, age and location, but I don't understand what the fish bowl represents?"
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She nodded, "let's take a look" and used her glass on the fishbowl. The bowl opened up into another garden, only it was sunny and there were trees everywhere. there was a hedge maze and sitting in square areas of the hedge maze were various wooden platforms. On one was a pile of folded laundry in a bread basket just like the laundry you had to do back home. In other platform there was a chessboard with a large pawn covering the whole board. On another platform there was a black doll with a chain around her neck.
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"this must be my circumstances." I then look and see the black doll with a chain around her neck "Lyriah if we removed the chain from the doll's neck would that change if I'm a slave or not?" I ask her now curious about the black doll with the chain around her neck
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She shrugged, "it could. Or it could be one of the others. To be honest...this whole world is so symbolic it often seems like a dream. It sure seems like if you changed that it might make so you aren't a slave..." She said thoughtfully.
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"okay then lets do that then" I go over to the black doll "here we go" I go over to where the chain is attached and try to undo the chain so that way I would no longer be a slave anymore and finally be free at last.
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Once you simply take the chain off the doll's neck, nothing happens. Lyriah walked over and took the chain away. "let's keep that. But let's take it out of this place, okay? It factors in somehow." She looked at you. "want to get out of here now?"
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"yes" I say as I take the chain with us hoping it would do some change to the tree or to me when we get out "so Lyriah what year are you from by the way?" I ask as we get back to the garden again to see if anything happens
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As you leave that area and the fruit behind you returns to itself behind you, you notice that the fishbowl doesn't change, but the fish inside seems to divide and multiply into a whole school of fish. Suddenly you feel a strange feeling. You are no longer a slave. You remember that you work in the laundry with other people at the plantation house but you are totally free.
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"woah my memory changed I'm now free!" I said smiling as I hug Lyriah "so since I chose the last one you get to choose the next one and you can choose from any of the trees of course we could go back into the fruit too"
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Lyriah hugged her back. "I'm so happy for you. Slavery is one of the things that has kept humanity back for too long. And I think I'm from 1810...but I didn't keep track of the year much to be honest. I think it's much later than that now. Since I've been looking for my dad time has flown by." She looked carefully. "Well, now that we can go up and down with the glass and the crystal ball, why not try going inside me" she said meekly.
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"sure though do you want to be changed too?" I ask as I ask another question "also how will you follow me if I use the glass on you?" I say curiously as I wait for you to answer my questions as I am very curious
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"Oh...no I don't want to be changed right now...I've experienced a lot of that...I just want to find my dad at this point" she said. "And if I use the glass on myself, but you are holding my hand, then both of us will be sucked inside of me."
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"oh okay well let's do that then" I say as I hold your hand as Lyriah prepare to take us into herself "um one question before we go inside you, you said you've experience a lot of change, so does that mean you looked different before we met?"
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Lyriah nodded, "Yes, I made myself shorter for a while and I have myself curly ringlets. I also made them red and my eyes green. I even made myself a boy for a while, though I forgot to change the ringlets. It was quite strange. And then I made myself a stalking tom-cat" she said all this while opening herself up. There was a blink and then you were on a theater stage, the lights bright. The audience was apparently absent and the stage had a doll that looked remarkably like Lyriah doing ballet on it. Lyriah continued. "and after I was a tom-cat I made myself a tiger, and then I became many things in the jungle, including a python...and " she used the glass on the ballerina doll and you were in a little garden again, but this one was outside beside a field with horses. The garden had fountains and closed baskets with different colored bows in them. She opened one of the baskets and pulled out a magician's wand, then used the glass on that, sending you both to a velvet room with curtains and a soft squishy floor. There was a treasure chest, a letter, and a bible all resting on the ground. The whole place was a like a red pillow. "I even became a chieftain. and then a cheiftain's wife. and then I left and realized that I should be myself. Oh this is inside my dad. if we use the crystal ball from here we should end up next to him, don't you think?"
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"yeah probably, so I guess all we have to do is use the crystal ball and we'll find your dad then." I say as I agree with Lyriah hoping we can find her father by doing this as I let her use the crystal ball to test it out
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She nodded. "let's do it" and used the crystal ball. Suddenly you were outside under a tree on a hill.
"Huh...he's not here...oh maybe it's like mine. See you have your parts right on the inside when you go in. it's simple, but for me, I have to go through the ballerina. maybe my dad has another layer like I do!" she used the crystal ball again and you both were in a white room with a wooden desk. "hmmm" she looked around. "this seeems pretty basic." she used the crystal ball again, her eyes looking a little teary. Now you were in a wood-working shop with tools all around. She was crying now. "where is he?"
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"calm down, maybe he's somewhere else or maybe he's looking for you just as much as your looking for him" I say hugging her trying to calm her down hoping that she would feel better if I comforted her by hugging
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She hugged her back. After a moment of silence she sniffed, "no, see...I came out of him. If I came up out of him, I would see him, wouldn't I?"
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"well that's true, maybe something is preventing you two from meeting like maybe there's an object that prevents you from just coming out of him." I say as it's only a theory though I wish I could do more to help her calm down
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Lyriah was misty-eyed and looked at her. "yeah, maybe. We'll figure it out. In the meantime, let's go back to where we came out of him" She took out the glass and the crystal ball. The glass brought her back in to the desk and then into the woods, then they were at the tree on the hill. She sat down under it. "maybe...he's buried here" she said at last.
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"you mean you think he's dead? why would you say that?" I say now concerned as I'm now worried about Lyriah now and I want to cheer her up, but I don't know how as Lyriah goes to answer my question to her
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"He's probably dead" said Lyriah nodding, tears in her eyes. She began to look around the tree for a grave stone or anything. After a while of not finding one, she looked at you. "I can't figure out how else coming out of him would lead here" she said, sitting against the tree.
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"I'm not sure either" I say as I keep trying to calm her down "did you try to look for him anywhere else also do you want to go somewhere else to talk since I want to try and help you"
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She shook her head and laid down quietly, unable to think of how on earth she came out of him and all there was, was this tree. She sobbed a bit longer.
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"Wait what if your father turned into the tree after all plants are living things so it could be possible" I say hoping it would cheer you up (again sorry if these are short but my phone doesn't show how it is if I'm on a computer)
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She sat up immediately and looked at you and nodded. "yes. That's true" And used the magnifying glass to jump into the tree without you. A moment later it opened again and she invited you in. "I...got too excited, but I don't want to lose you. I just found you and you seem really nice, so, let's stay friends, okay?"
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"Yeah" I come in with her as we look inside hoping to find some trace of Lyriah's father as we look around together
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She immediately went to the treasure chest. "Not sure how any of this relates to trees. The insides of a person are so personal and sometimes don't make sense or relate to anyone else. Maybe this is a specific tree? and these are specific things? ahh I just can't remember!" she sat on the floor and folded her arms, thinking. "I feel like we are soooo close. "
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"Well we can keep looking around maybe you'll remember something" I say trying to be hopeful as I look around
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Lyriah finally picked up the bible and went to fan through the pages, trying to figure out if there's anything there. It opened up to actually be a little box. The pages were just a facade. Inside the box was a locket shaped like leaf. "ah ha" she said, and then opened it. It had a picture of lyriah as a baby, painted on oil. Very very tiny. She resisted the urge to tear up. "This better work" and took it out of the bible, closing it. She held your hand and left the area, arriving at the tree. The tree suddenly shifted and shortened, turning gray and rounded at the top. It was a grave. Lyriah, looked at you. "I think I found him"
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