After Whatever After: Nelly

I knock. Knock! Knock! Knock! Nelly opens the door a crack. When she peeks through, she opens it more widely. "Oh. It's you." She said flatly. We entered. Jonah looks at her in disgust. I do the same. "What do you want?" Nelly says expressionlessly to us. I clear my throat and prepare for my best judge voice. "Nelly, we have been to several different fairy tale lands, and fairies in the land have told us that the portal home is in Rose." Nelly, suddenly interested, scrunched up her nose, as if thinking. "That doesn't tell me what you want." I sigh and Jonah rolls his eyes. "We want a portal to Rose." He says exasperated. Nelly didn't catch Jonah's mood. Nelly thinks hard again while we wait there. There are. 9 hours left for our underwater adventure. Nelly continues thinking. Sigh. This is going to take forever. Jonah starts picking his fingernails. " Jonah!" I say, swatting his hand away. Nelly finally figures it out. She says it like we're brand-new to the subject, which we're not. " SO, you want to get out of the place right?" I give myself a nice, throbbing face palm. Ow. It hurt. We nod. Nelly claps her hands. " Wonderful! Just step into this cauldron." I look to the cauldron that Nelly is pointing to. It bubbles and it looks like vomit. I gag to the look of it. Jonah looks like as if Nelly is trying to lure us into the trap or whatever she made. " Jonah, we don't have much time!" I yell, trying to make a point. " But Abby-" " Jonah, do you want to get out of here or WHAT?!" Jonah nods. "Then let's go!" I say. I grab hold of Jonah's hand. We slowly step into the the cauldron. The smell is unbearable. I gag and choke. And the liquid suddenly turns purple. It hisses. And we get sucked into Rose.