Chatterbox: Pudding's Place

The Maze

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You exist. Although you can’t exactly be sure where, or when, or how, one thing that you do know for sure is that you exist. Something's not quite right, though. Where are you? What are you doing there?

A voice slices through your empty/full mind: “Hello!”

Suddenly, you are aware of someone. It is a teenage girl wearing a silver-white sweater and jeans. You are now existing together, though you are still not sure where. She is sitting with legs crossed and is smiling brightly.

“Hellooo,” she says, leaning forward, and you realize that she wants you to respond. 

After a few seconds, you find your voice and say, “Hi. Where am I?”

“Good question,” the girl says, throwing her hands up above her head. As if responding to the gesture, the nothingness around you shifts into a real, solid room with plain gray walls and no furniture. She frowned, muttering, “oh, no, that won’t do,” and waved her hands again. This time the room shifted so that the ceiling was a little lower, peach-and-beige wallpaper rolled over the walls, and antique wooden furniture slid onto the (newly polished) floor. You blink and look down, realizing you are now sitting in a dining chair. Were you sitting before?

“My name’s Silver Crystal,” the girl says. “And you are in the Maze.”

“The Maze,” you say, more as a question than anything else.

“Indeed,” she confirmed, nodding. She turns back to the wall to her left and looks at it contemplatively. “It could use a window, right?”

“Uhh.” You’re not quite sure how to respond. “I guess?”

She snaps, and a window edged with pink lace curtains appears, displaying a gorgeous view of rolling green hills with mountains looming in the distance.

You point to the window. “Can I go there?” you ask.

Silver laughs. “Oh, of course not. It’s not real. Nothing in the Maze is real.”

It looks real to you. You say, “How do I leave?”

“The only way to leave,” Silver says, still grinning. “Is to escape.”

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>> Fill out the form to enter the Maze. The limit is 10 CBers, who will be split into two groups of five once it starts.

>> The Maze is interactive and if you decide to participate you should be willing and able to follow along and comment to influence where the story goes.

>> Thank you, and I’ll see you there!