"The force behind these visions may not be 'bad'," Alice said. "And it may not have been toying with us - it may have been trying to tell us something."

She didn't much like having her head toyed with, or dropped into hellish hallucination after hellish hallucination, but she was a bit more used to it than most, and in her experience those nightmarescapes were trying to point her in the direction of something real and sinister. A helping hand wasn't always pleasant.

"Are you alright to walk now?"