The Curious Play 1 Introduction

"Princess. . ."

Someone is shaking her gently. The room was cold and dim. She barely open her eyes and closed it again. she was so sleepy and her subconscious is pulling her somewhere. Instead of getting up she flip on the other side.

"Princess. .princess. !" 

This time that someone was shaking her badly.

"Princess. . .

"Princess. ?Wait. .whats going on?" 

She open her eyes slowly and waited for a moment. Her brain is in a mess it took a little while before it works properly and sort things out.

"What on earth is going on?"

When everything registered to her brain she suddenly got up. She was in the weird place infront of the weird girl. "I must be dreaming!" she lazily yawns and was about to lay back down when the girl suddenly yelled at her. Startled! She realized that she was not dreaming at all.

"What the heck? You're scaring me to death!" She shook her head wildly. All her sleeps went away and now shes fully awake.

"Princess. . .we have to get out from here!"

The girls voice was in haste. Why?

"Princess. !? Wait! Who, me?" She gives a bark of laughter. "I don't have time for jokes, help me get up. I need to go to school!"

"School. . ?" The girls jaw drops. "what is school?"

The girl asked her in confussion.

"What is wrong with you?" She frowned.

Repeating what she said in her own makes her realized that something is awfully wrong. Now She was confused as well.

Why suddenly she become a princess? What on earth was going on? Where the heck am I? Looking at the girl infront of her makes her tummy jolts in motion she feels like she wants to puke but even if she  puke her brain out still everything doesn't make sense.

"Where Am I?"

"Princess. .you. .you forget what happend last night?"

what happend last night? "Did I got fever last night then I. .I hallucinated?" 

The girl was studying her expression. Infront of the girl she maybe looks like weird or something but she doesn't really know what is going on. 

She look at herself, the nice bed she was lying down over night is all gone. . .and now she was squatting  awkwardly in a dark room? 

"Last night? What happend last night?"

The girl pointed the broken ceiling right above her. She looks at it but still she could not find any clues "What is the connection with me and that broken thing?" Then a vivid flash of memory comes in her vision. .she saw someone fell down right through the tiles and landed exactly where she is sitting.

Seriously. ! Did I really come down from there. ? Ahhhhg. . I was probably hit my head hard and now my brains become dead.! She tap her head and unconsciously ma.s.saged her b.u.t.t.

"What is this place. ?" No matter how hard she cracked her brain still she's  clueless. "Do you mean Im sleeping here the whole time?"

"Princess. .I don't know what exactly happend last night but someone from the palace send a private message to me this morning. ." Xin'er look at her and studied her expression, she was hesitant for a moment "after you woke up last night. ." She paused and look into her eyes. "last night. .You suddenly disappeared!"

There was a trace of wariness in the girls face. Who is she?

"Where is this place?"

"The emperial Library!"

"Library?" she suddenly stood up. She look arround and through a spot lights that comes from above where the girls said she fell down, she managed to see everything. Yes. . shes indeed in the middle of a long and tall shelves filled with books. books?

Oh Yeah. .I was in the library yesterday! "library. ?"

The only word that registered to her brain was the word LIBRARY the rest was completely ignored.

"Emperial academy!"

"Emp. .emperial academy? Whoa. ! The place where royal members study?"

The girl nod. Emperial academy? Royal member? Where on earth is this? When she look arround thats the only time she realized that the place she's standing in is unfamiliar.

"Tell me what happened?"

The girl was taken aback, she become pale, suddenly she sank on the floor as if all her strength were gone. 

"Princess. .You. .last night! You just woke up last night and when I came to checked you. .you just disappeared! We were all looking for you but. . " She sob.

"What do you mean . ?" Her brain wants to explode. She had no idea of what on earth is going on.

"You've been in. .in bed for quite sometimes. .you been sleeping all this time!"

The moment she heard it, she felt like being hit by a bomb.

Bed.? Sleeping for sometimes. ? I wasn't sleeping I was. .

The girl look into her eyes. Through her eyes she herself saw something, it was fear! and in her clouded mind she somehow saw a blurry vission but she could not sort those scattered pieces in her memory. .on how she end up in the library.

One thing she knew. .she is a person in this world. .when realization hits her, everything that arrounds her seems to move closer and closer until there was no s.p.a.ce and air to breath. 

"How could I forget?"

She was down on her kness clutching her chest. The defeaning sounds of silence and the loud sound of her own heart beating is the only thing she could hear. .

"This is impossible.  . impossible. !"

She felt the pain she could not describe.

"Princess!"

She look at the girl blankly. Tears in her eyes. If I was sleeping all this time then all I see. .all I experience in that world is just a dream? But why everything seems so real? Why I still felt the pain. .the accident! 

Her tears fell down in her cheeks. Her chest hurt so much as if there is something stuck in there.

"Always begin where you stop!"

Those words were keep on repeating in her brain. She covered her ears and sob. she heard a beep. .she just barely heard it in the beginning until it become louder and louder and louder. .

"Princess we have to get out from her!"

The girl infront of her touch her and pulled her thoughts back. .the deafening sound that she heard in her subconscious was gone. .With out a word she run away. 

Inside the library was dark and still. Running towards the door seems like a longest run she ever had in life. It was as if she was running for eternity. 

With her unstable emotion she bearly find the door through the  glimpse of light, she open it. The rays of the morning lights touch her skin and temporarily blinded her. She raised her hands to cover her eyes.

In her clouded mind she saw herself doing the same.  She was sitting in her bedroom and the rays of light pa.s.s through the blind venetians and make her temporarily lost her sight.

"Always begin were you stop!!" Now she'd recognized the voice it was the old man in the library. "Mr. Henrick!" She clutch her chest. She felt the famillar pain and sadness inside but she could not explain why.

Before she could step forward the girl that chase after her accidentally knock her off. She fell on the ground. When she hit her forehead on the ground, she saw a tiny lights incircling above her head then everything went black. .