“Who are you? What do you want? What is this place?”

I've been walking in this land of fire and death for hours, trying to find a way out or a person or something, anything. I walked and I walked and I walked until some small rat like creatures attacked me. There was only 4 of them so I easily cut them down withy sword even with a severe lack of knowledge on how to use and handle a sword. I was in some form of forest at this point the trees seemed to be made out of flesh and had numerous eyes protruding out from all around them, the eyes seemingly following my every move as I walked. The flesh of these trees felt extremely rubbery and was almost impossible to tear off.

"Shit. I need to start a fire to cook these rats or I'm gonna starve."

I said to myself. There was fire everywhere around me but it was the tops of the flesh trees that were burning. No good. Can't reach the tops of the trees. So I kept walking, the thought of biting into one of these trees grew with my hunger until I found a fire placed perfectly in the middle of this forest. It had 2 rocks beside it so it was perfect to use to cook the rats with. Almost too perfect but the thoughts of hunger prevailed over that thought. I sat down on the rock and cooked one of the rats using my sword to hold it over the fire, it's flesh tasted like rubber and it was like biting into a rock. It was utterly repulsive but I ate nonetheless. I continued eating and when I finished eating I continued to sit next to the fire thinking of what I should do next.

"Your a pretty interesting…..guy"

I blinked once and as soon as I did a girl with flowing black hair appeared sitting on the rock next to mine. She held her chin with her hands and stared at me with eyes that were…..hard to get a good look at? Her hair was all in her face but her eyes were still visible but it was like having a smudge on a tv screen. when I tried to look her in the eyes her entire face became blurry her body was completely visible and she was wearing a frilly long black dress, looking back to her eyes I blinked because maybe something was in my eye but I was still unable to get a good look at her face. I looked at her cheek instead of eyes and that caused the blurriness to go away, her skin was extremely pale and she had a purple flower ornament in her hair. her cheeks, mouth, nose and chin were visible if I focused on them but if I looked at her eyes directly it would go back to being blurry. I stood up, taking out my sword and pointed it at her with my left hand.

"Who are you? What do you want? What is this place?"

"My~ right to the point…..hmm? Who I am and what I want is completely....irrelevant. What this place is, I guess you could consider it my...home. Anyways I would like to as you how you got...here."

She stated in a melancholic tone. The ends of her sentences were delayed, a speaking quirk?

"How I got here? I….I'm not sure. One minute I had my hand on the door to the guild and then the next I was falling here. Everything else is a bit muddled."

"Oh that is very…..interesting. You are very…..interesting."

She stood up from the rock making her way close and closer to me. I wave my sword in her face.

"S-stay back! I don't know who you are or what you want so stay back!"

"Calm down I'm not going to hurt…..you."

She keeps getting close and closer until she's right in front of me.

"I warned you!

I say as I swing my sword bringing it down on her right shoulder cleaving all the way through until the sword came out under her arm however….

"How…..rude. I told you I meant no harm let me look at…..you."

My sword went right through her as if she wasn't even there after I swung at her she uses the chance to close the little bit of distance that was left and grabbed my left arm.

"Haha! Very…..interesting. Your body is supposed to reflect your physical body while in here but yours does…..not! Instead your body reflects the way your mind thinks of…..itself! Let's fix…..that."

As she said that my left arm completely disappeared and my sword dropped to the ground. There was no blood and no pain even though I could clearly see the bone and muscles and nerves hanging out of my shoulder.

"Ah."

I let out a gasp getting ready to scream out of shock but all of a sudden in the blink of an eye I was flat on my back with this girl straddling me her arms holding my right hand and throat pinning me to the ground. I struggled to get her off and even though she was smaller than me it felt like a freight train was on my chest, she was completely unmovable.

"Like I said, your....intresting. The others have already started to make their move and I'm the only one without a pawn and as it stands you will…..die. So! Make a contract with…..me!"