"Alice, I don't think we should do this..." Alex dropped his head, he felt guilty for backing out last minute.
"Alex, we've gone through this many times. Do you want freedom or not?" Alice harshly whispered at her twin.
"I do, but-"
"But nothing alright?! It's either you stay here and keep acting as a doll to Mother and Father or you follow me out of this prison!" Sitting on her window ledge with a long rope to the ground from her room, she kept her angry voice down as much as possible.
"But Alice, the fog," Alex whimpered. He wanted to leave this place just as much as she did but at what cost?
"Oh shush you big baby! The 'fog' doesn't exist! It's just a lie they use to keep us trapped in this stupid place!" Alice rolled her eyes at her twin brother's foolishness. "Let's go! We don't have enough time!"
"But-"
"No buts! I'm heading off! You can keep being a puppet if you want." With her bag of supplies comfortably sitting on her shoulders, she slid down the rope.
"Wait!" Alex slid down the rope after his sister, albeit with a lot more hesitance.
"Alice?" Alex asked the moment his two feet touched the ground. "Alice?"
He walked towards the forest as per their original plan. "Alice?"
There was no trace of his sister. Only the trees, him and the air. The very very thick air.
"AHHHHHH!" A shout rang from the woods, amidst a cloud of fog.
"Alice!" Alex's head snapped up towards direction of the sound. "Alice, I'm coming!"
He ran as fast as his two legs could carry him, his twin could be in danger!
"Alice? Where are you?" Alex shouted to no avail.
He looked around him. Or rather, tried his best to. He was encompassed in a very thick mist.
"Alice?" He stalked cautiously, it was oddly silent for a forest normally full of wildlife. "Alice, please reply!"
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He looked down, a hand?
"ALICE!" He started panicking. He ran and ran in panicked confusion. Then...
"RIP..."
He had stepped on a piece of cloth, he had ripped it and fallen.
Getting back up, the sight which he found got rid of all hope for him.
It was Alice. An Alice he did not recognise. One that's body was icy cold with wide eyes that shone in terror.
She was missing a hand, an ear and other bits of her body.
As if he were a cloak without a hanger, he crumpled onto the ground and cried. Cried in sheer horror and sadness.
After 30 minutes of crying, he got up. He did the best he could to dig a hole and bury his twin. It wasn't as deep as normal graves, but it would suffice.
Not wanting to keep seeing those haunted eyes, he ran off, but not before dropping his bag of supplies.
"Goodbye, Alice."
He arrived outside the manor where he found his parents, crying and panicking.
"Oh my god! Alex!" His mother shouted. "Are you okay, dear?"
"Yes, mother." Alex replied, voice void.
"Oh thank God, me and your mother were so worried about you!" Alex's Father came over and gave him a bear hug.
"Me only? What about Alice?" Alex cried out.
"Who's Alice? Son, I think that forest did something to you." His mother brushed his face.
"Never mind." Alex gave up, he was feeling tired from the roller coaster he had gone through.
Black dots filled his vision and then, nothing. He woke up a couple days later, still remembering the events.
After that day, he was never the same, he could always remember those haunted eyes. He promised to never let anyone see any emotions from his eyes, lest they have to see it too.
He remained a void, empty shell of the twin of Alice.
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