The Hedges Have Eyes Who: Illyana Rasputin and OTA NPCs: Figments of Illyana's overactive imagination... or are they? Where: Xavier's, the Hedge Maze When: July 25, After Supper What: Illyana has an adventure, with the help of a new friend(s)! Rating: PG
Illyana insisted that her brother wait outside the maze, or go to the basketball court and leave her alone. He had just taken her to the movie "Brave" and she wanted to go inside and wanted to go and befriend a bear, trick an evil witch, and fight monsters. Picking up a stick that was both her sword and bow, she turned and smiled at Piotr. She knew if there was any real danger, her brother would come and save her. "I want my freedom!" she yelled, then turned to the entrance.
Laughing and running into the maze, she turned corner after corner until she reached a dead end. The edges were really high up, and she couldn't see the low sun, and her eyes widened, her imagination driving to the thought of real monsters. They looked like the old man who would sometimes visit the collective farm, or twisted, smaller goblins.
She held her stick tight, feeling the hair on the back of her neck raise. Illyana spun around, thinking she saw movement. She smelled something like the hearth fire back home, but then it was gone. A shadow of a person was on the other side of a bush. She pulled apart the branches. A man in a suit, with a hat on, dark red skin like monster. She felt eyes on her, a smile, and she ran down the hedge away from it.
Now she was scared, and breathing heavy, and she pushed back into a corner and sat down. She wanted to call out for help, but she was afraid the bad man in the hat would hear her first. Holding her stick sword out, she buried her head in her legs. She wanted to be brave, but she knew her brother would always save her.