Once Upon An Eire

Eire walked slowly down the dark corridor, hoping against hope no one would hear her. She knew that if she was caught, she'd be in big trouble. Nothing compared to last time she tried to sneak out of the convent. But Eire was tired of Ted's constant evil plotting, so she had packed her stuff and had a one way train ticket to Buffalo, NY.

Eire crept down the hall...almost there...she reached the door just as the floor creaked. Loudly. Oh no! she thought. She heard footsteps running down the hall, and she ran for it. But someone got a grip on her wrist. She turned to see..."Ali???!" she exclaimed as loudly as she could under the circumstances. "What are you doing here??"

Ali bared her teeth & hissed, "Nevermind that. We've got to get out of here. Ted found out that I never really liked the Matrix; I just pretended to be obsessed with it so he would consider me his friend and I could find out exactly what was going on in here."

Eire gasped, and felt totally shocked...Ali? Pretending to like the Matrix? "So...does that mean...you never liked...Ke..."

"No, I think that Keanu Reeves is a terrible actor & not even that cute. Now let's get out of here!"

Eire managed to stumble forward after Ali, although she felt about as shocked as a chicken who suddenly discovers it has the head of a pekinese.

After they were safely out of the building and running down an alley way which appeared to hold most of the city's garbage and compost, Eire stopped, or more like, she stopped running, slid three feet on a banana peel and some unidentified brown stuff, which, all things considered, she preferred not to identify, and demanded, "So what side are you on, Ali?" She'd been through enough crap lately; she didn't need to find out she was running straight into a trap on the heels of a grade-A trickster. Never liked the Matrix, Eire thought grimly.

Ali, wearing hiking boots instead of the little city-slicker shoes Eire wore, succeeded in stopping, turned, and stared at Eire... "Roya has been talking to you, hasn't... she?"

"Well, yes," admitted Eire. "What's wrong with that?"

Ali shook her head exasperatedly and grabbed Eire's wrist, pulling her along. "Roya is a clone, Eire. She's Ted's tool. He's trying to turn us all against eachother. Our only hope is to get to Oregon in time for Theory... before it's too late..."

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