Well then, she's just going to fall, isn't she?

She'll try to duck her head so she doesn't hit it too badly.

A boy catches her!

"Hi," says the same voice that asked about her being upside down.

She tries to get away from him, not feeling the slightest bit comfortable being caught by him, no offense. She looks a bit scared, really.

He lets her go, and looks up. There is a kid on fire there.

"There is a kid on fire there," he points out.

"Yes there is and I was trying to get away from it and then this room was upside-down and what is this place I was okay until the lava and then the fire—" she babbles, then cuts herself off, noticing what she's doing and instead just backing away from the two strange things.

Well, the boy doesn't look particularly strange. Just like a boy.

"Come, if we run away for long enough and hide the kid'll forget about us." He takes her hand and starts pulling her toward one of the doors.

But he's a stranger, so she would seriously rather he not touch her so she pulls her hand away.

She does, however, follow him. Leaving a bit of distance between them.

He doesn't seem bothered by this.

On the other side of the door he leads her through is a movie theater, and he continues walking briskly and leading her wherever.

She continues to follow, trying to keep track of where she's going.

She's not sure she likes this dream.

It's pretty hard to keep track. The boy leads her left, right, up, left, left, down, left, right, right, right, right, right, right again, until they reach a kid's bedroom. "Under the bed!" he says.

She… is not super happy about this but does in fact get under the bed.

He puts a finger on his lips in a 'shh' gesture, and waits.

… Yeah, she was already going to be sh. She's terrified of the monster, she's not gonna go telling it where she is.

Waiting, waiting, waiting.

She waits.

Quietly.

Not sobbing, because that would be a noise.

The kid made of fire enters the bedroom.

She still does not scream.

It would be a worse idea to scream than to just crouch here, prone and trembling, so she does not scream.

The kid looks around, then exits the bedroom.

… Rachel's just gonna wait here until told to do otherwise.

A while still.

And then: "Okay, we can get out."

"… Are you sure?" she asks, still sounding a bit terrified.

"Yeah. Kid'll be distracted now, forgot about us."

Then she'll get out from under the bed and stand up.

"… So what the hell is this place?"

He tilts his head. "It's the Sideways. Didn't you notice the weird rooms and geometry?"

"I noticed the weird papier mâché thing or whatever that was outside my bedroom window showing the street outside? And I have no idea what the Sideways is – care to explain?"

She might be moving from frightened terror to frightened babbling again.