Pelly looked up, and extended a wing towards me. “This is.I don’t think I got your name,” said Kiki, turning to face me.
“Over here!” A small white pelican sat behind a desk, not looking up from the papers her.wings. She held open the door for me "My pleasure," Her tail swished with satisfaction, I could tell we were going to be great friends. "As a matter of fact she is!" We laughed together, and then we reached a large, stone building. I laughed, "Let me guess, Pelly's a pelican!" "Pelly, our clerk will tell Tom Nook, our shop-keeper/engineer that you're in need of a house, and it should be ready for tomorrow, meanwhile you can stay with me, if that's alright." "I'm not gonna be- Oh yeah, no getting out." "Well if you're gonna be living here you'll need a house." I was quite creeped out now, the grass was made up of little green triangles, clouds were white and looked like dollops of whipped cream, and the very few houses we passed looked like they'd been pulled out of a fairy tale. "Oh, don't you worry about it, I'm sure she was a lovely person, but I never really knew her." You see, something about Hansory, it’s like it can only take so much population at a time." I was born here, but my mother died as soon as I was. "How did you get stuck here then?" I wondered aloud. Rather than caring about my problems, I wondered about hers. "Once you're in Hansory, there's no getting out." I felt three little claws digging into my palm. "I need to get out of here" I whimpered, but took her paw anyway, it felt like velvet. "Hansory," I was feeling a little faint now, and must have been shaking because she offered me her paw. "Well of course I can talk, this is Hansory!" She giggled, a little more confident now. "And you can talk," It wasn't a question. "You're a cat," I said slowly, more to myself than to, what was her name? Oh yeah, Kiki. She had big yellow eyes, shining under the dim sunlight filtering through the trees, a tentative smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, and she was a cat. Unwillingly, I turned around to face her. Two already folding, packing and sorting things into my bags. "You have got to be kidding me," I grumbled, picking my bags up, and the contents that had fallen out. "What the-?" He threw my bags onto the grass beside the invisible road he was driving along, leaving me to chase after them, exasperated, and drove off. "You said you wanted to go to Hansory right?" I was shocked, was this some sort of joke, was he kidnapping me? "Well kid, we're here now, once you get into this world, there's no going back," "Um, I think you missed a turn back there, I said, in fact, I knew he'd missed a turn back there, the trees were turning from dark green canopies of mossy branches to surreally triangular bundles of emerald green leaves.
I couldn’t complain though, because we began to pass through a wood where trees were covered in moss, birds sang and the sunlight left soft little dapples on the road, were we even driving on a road? Though still a misery gum was still stuck to the paths, litter still rolled by, teenagers still swaggered by abandoned apartments they had rented to make themselves seem cool and superior. It was a sunny day in northern Yorkshire. I sat awkwardly in the back of the cab, barely listening to the driver, Kapp'n, talk about how dreary and lonely his life was.