Snippet #1792943

"There's no place like home, there's no place like home."

Soft murmurs exited the red head's lips as she stood in the doorway of her small house, a dazed look in her blue orbs. Her small hands were gripping the porch railing tightly as her body swayed back in forth. The The large mastiff dog besides her looked bewildered, after a moment or so he gently nuzzled her side. The small action snapped Dorothy, or as she preferred to call herself Dorthea, out of her trance. "Oh Toto, how did I get out here?",she asked the canine, gently scratching his back. The dog could only let out a small bark in reply, only understanding his owner was disoriented. "I must have ate to many poppies before bed again",she said with a sigh. The fictional girl had the habit of eating poppy's, sniffing them, and drinking them before she went to sleep at night. They gave her pleasant dreams and differed her from her hellish nightmares of her past. Reaching down, she picked up her basket and hooked it in the crook of her arm before adjusting the AK 47 on her back, placing several cartridges of ammo in her basket. Opening a small box that rested beside the door, she lifted out a saddle like object with two large sacks on either side before placing it across Toto. Dorothy was the best Mail girl at the post office due to the fact that she passed every house in Weathersby whether she was told or not.

"Come on Toto, we have to go down the yellow brick road!"

Her voice was cheerful and her smile perk as she locked the door behind her. In her mind, a glossy golden rode lay right in front of her porch steps. The bricks smooth with not a blade of grass daring to grow between them. She gently tugged on the dog's spiked collar, gesturing for him to follow down the imaginary path. A soft tune reverberated in her throat as she walked down the road, Toto following faithfully beside her. She stopped first at the post office that rested only a little ways down from her house, picking up her assigned letters and packages before setting out on her journey. "Somewhere over the rainbow, blue birds sing",she hummed as she skipped down the unseen path, avoiding apple trees and heading towards her first assigned destination.