IC: VOICEMAIL

[somethingspecial]

Hello, Adstringendum! This is Rachel Berry and I'm unable to come to the phone right now due to some pressing matters that I must get resolved or else. If you would like to get a hold of me for any reason whatsoever -- business or otherwise --, please leave a message after the beep!

... Does this thing beep?

Oh, well -- beep!

ooc: Need to get in contact with Rachel and there's no available post? Comment away!

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[text]

[somethingspecial]

No. Why?

[text]

[expunger]

Would you like to?

[text]

[somethingspecial]

Well, as long as you go with me, sure.

Why, what's out there?

[text]

[expunger]

Today there is a forest. Compression of two places has created something unusual that would no doubt interest you.

There is nothing to fear. I can destroy anything in the Wastes.

[text]

[somethingspecial]

[ -- well, that does sound kinda cool -- ]

Alright. I can go, then.

I will meet you outside of my house.

[expunger]

Good.

[She's there within five minutes, contemplatively watching two lizards mating on a rock outside Solve.]

[somethingspecial]

[Rachel quickly comes downstairs, her skirts flying out behind her as she opens the door.]

Hello!

[expunger]

[As usual, the sight of Rachel changes her demeanor: she lightens, brightens just a little, shoulders relaxing and stance easier.]

Hello.

[somethingspecial]

[She notices the change in demeanor, but doesn't think much of it. This is normal, after all.]

Where in the Wastelands are we going, again?

[expunger]

A little place less than half a mile from the walls. You'll like it, Rachel. It's... bizarre.

[With that questionably insulting comment, she puts a hand on Rachel's shoulder and in a heartbeat they're... somewhere else. It's a kind of valley in the middle of an incredible rock formation. Far away, the beautifully patterned sandstone rises into a kind of mountain and plateau high above their heads. The rocks are too high around them to see very far off. There's something through a pass between two nearby peaks she wants to show Rachel, but the angel gives her a moment to take in the startling place.]

[somethingspecial]

[The sudden disappearance is daunting, but Rachel has flown enough to get used to it pretty quickly. She catches herself quickly to blink -- and she then gasps.]

Oh...

[This girl has never been outside Ohio.]

It's beautiful.

[expunger]

Yes.

[Simply. She gives Rachel another minute or so to gawk before leading her with a gesture down a kind of path that goes down, down, down, and then around until they're cutting into the mountain high up, which isn't as far away as it looked before.

It seems to go on forever, until the claustrophobic rock formations open abruptly to a huge valley- an incredibly, vividly green jungle valley that's so obviously out of place that you can practically trace the seam between two different worlds compressing together. The wave rock curves over and over and over, and the rocks even crest like waves, but the underside of every rock facing into the valley is bright jungle so it looks like the rock folds over the rainforest like paper.

A steep channel in the mountainside rising high above them is filled with dense green vegetation and a bright blue, gorgeous waterfall. In one place, the line of rock containing the rainforest cuts into the mountain like someone took a huge chunk out of it. In the empty space is one part of an enormous statue that looks bizarrely like it's holding up part of the mountain.

She says nothing. The bizarre and breathtaking place should speak for itself.]