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[invisibill]

It had a been a few weeks since Danny Fenton had arrived at the barracks. Enough time to throw off suspicion at any sightings of Phantom, Danny hoped.  Even if it was suspicious, he simply couldn't risk holding off any longer to start patrols.  He needed to know his new surroundings.  He needed to be out there patrolling for trouble and keeping an

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[playonforever]

Some time during Danny's patrol, the woods turn white around him. Which isn't to say the trees have turned white- the forest has just apparently vanished. Slipped into blankness like those old cartoons where the characters walked off the end of the scenery and into a spot the artist hadn't drawn.

Look out for that white wall you can't fly through in front of you, Danny.

If you can see it.

[invisibill]

Though many, many painful experiences Danny had taught himself how to recognize a trap.

This was a trap.

Of course, that didn't really help him figure out how to do anything useful. Like, say, finding a way out?

He skids to a halt in midair, displaying his usual complete disregard for certain laws of physics, and abruptly takes off at his highest speed in a random direction.

...And does his very best impression of a bug on a windshield. Had he ever mentioned how much he hated invisible walls?

[playonforever]

A light laugh chimes out from somewhere in the emptiness, and a feminine voice says, "Did it hurt itself?"

For a second, a mirror seems to hang in thin air, and on the other side a woman with long black hair and white irises watches Danny, fingers pressed against the silvered glass. And then it's gone again, and everything is blank white once more.

[invisibill]

Danny peels himself off the wall and drifts into the center of the space. Or what he thought might be the center. He glances around warily as shreds of brilliant green energy slowly gather around his hands.

"Ha ha, very funny. What do you want?"

[playonforever]

The dark-haired woman appears at his side, curtsying politely. "Only to say hello to it. Hello, young wanderer with nothing to hide."

The area around them starts to clarify into what looks like a general store, lined with empty shelves. The whole thing is done in shades of white, cream and gold. There's a long mirror behind the register, reflecting the two of them and the woods. "How does it like her home?"

[invisibill]

Okay, by this time all of Danny's instincts were screaming that he needed to get out of here. Like, right now. He grins cheesily and slowly begins floating backwards, intending on phasing through the nearest wall.

"Um, very nice? I hear the whole monochrome general store thing is very in right now."

[playonforever]

The woman chuckles and wags a finger at him. "Where will it go? The forest? No, she will not let it leave so soon. It was on the hunt, was it not? It moved like a hunter."

[invisibill]

Well, that didn't work. Danny's gaze flickers nervously around the room as he tries to find a quick exit.

"It was nice meeting you, but I really need to get going. Patrol won't finish itself, you know. And I'm sure there's someone out there that could use some help."

He carefully avoids answering any of her questions.

[playonforever]

"No, it does not need to get anything." Her eyes narrow and they're sitting at a table in what looks like the back room of a cream and gold convenience store. There's a wall of monitors that look out on various views of the forest, some with images of pixies or local fauna, some with images of monsters. Several have high overhead views of the barracks.

"There are many that might use its help. That matters little to her."

[invisibill]

Danny yelps as they suddenly change location again, and glares at her.

"It matters to me. Don't get up. I'll show myself out."

And with that he turns intangible, intending to drop into the floor beneath and vanish through the ground.

[playonforever]

The white-eyed woman tsks quietly and taps once on the table. What will probably feel like a very big static shock hits Danny - and he'll be his human self again, feet stuck into the floor.

"She did not say it could leave. It must study on its manners."

[invisibill]

Danny cries out at the feel of the electric shock. That never stopped hurting, no matter how many times it happened to him. Almost before he becomes aware of what happened he is reaching out and frantically feeling around where his legs are trapped.

"You- What did you do?"

[playonforever]

"Invited it to stay." She lolls back in her chair and laughs, light and silvery. "Now, will it be a good boy and have a drink with her?"

A gesture, and two glasses and a pitcher that looks like lemonade appears on the table.

[invisibill]

True to form, Danny finally remembers all the warnings Peter had given him about a shape-changing stalker with white eyes now. Far too late to help him get out of this. More to the point, the older man had specifically told him not to drink or eat anything.

And right now? Danny was pretty willing to take the guy at his word.

"Sorry, I make a policy of never drinking anything handed out by kidnappers."

[playonforever]

She tilts her head slowly, making a little chiming noise. "Kidnapper? She did not bring it here, nor did she draw it outside of the walls of its haven. All she asked was that it not run."

The white-eyed woman tilts her head and sniffs. "It reeks of the haven. Of the Wolf and the wanderers. And -"

She jerks back and gives a deep-throated growl that doesn't sound like it should come from the throat of anything human-shaped. "What has that one done to itself?"

She reaches across the table with a too-long arm and grabs Danny's neck. "The one that calls itself Peter Burke. What has it done?"

[invisibill]

"You're keeping me here and not letting me leave. Last I heard, that fits the definition of kidnapping pretty well," Danny points out. He sounds more tired than afraid. You could only get trapped so many times before the shock started to wear off.

He widens his eyes and tries to jerk back out of reach when she grabs his throat. Both of his hands come up in an attempt to pry her grip off. "Let me go! I don't know, okay! And even if I did know I definitely wouldn't tell you."