<i>Magic?  </i>A look of confusion crossed her features as the man spoke.  It certainly looked like magic back there, but that caused a single issue in her mind.<i>Magic isn't real.  This isn't real.  I must have tripped and hit my head and this is all some bad dream.  </i>She was immediately ripped from that notion when one of the men in the group that had kidnapped her went limp in the hands of the man who had stopped them.  When he asked that they remove their cloaks, the people around her did so quickly, and the man that had been escorting her even reached to remove the one around her shoulders.  Alice caught it before it was fully pulled off her and grasped the fabric desperately, pulling it back around her body like she might have a towel.  She clutched it tightly to her form and even began to stumble back away from group until her feet did her a disservice and caused her to fall backwards against the man in the suit.  She regained her footing and turned to face him, looking terrified and wide-eyed.  She did not want to be the next to have her neck snapped.<br/><br/>"I didn't...I'm so sorry.  I am not with them, the pull me through something...Some kind of hole, and then I was in the middle of their...ritual or whatever it was.  I am not a part of this."  She stammered out, even though she worried that begging would not save her now.  She took a few steps back, trying to ensure she was not within grasping distance, though she was not sure if it mattered.  As she looked at him, even through her fear, she realized how striking the man was.  Something about him spoke to something inside of her, but it was an odd feeling, like deja vu.  Something powerful but elusive and confusing.<br/><br/>"She lies.  Conduits often lie.  They're passed from Master to Master.  They have no sense of loyalty, barely a brain in their heads, little more than the batteries that they are.  Pay her no attention, we will comply with your requests." The female leader said as she dropped whatever weapons she had and raised her hands into the air.  She kept her hands up at she approached poor Alice and the woman also tried to pull the cloak from her.  The woman gave it a hard yank at the bottom but Alice held tight to it.<br/><br/>"She's the one who is lying.  I don't belong here.  I know what she is talking about.  They-They kidnapped me."  Alice declared and took another step away from the woman.