"Just what is this place? Where am I? Eldest Senior Brother? Hey! Is anyone there?" Tutu looked fearfully at the pitch-black surroundings, her paws clutching her suona tight.
She had no idea why she had appeared here. She had clearly still been on top of Eldest Senior Brother's head, so how had she ended up somewhere so dark she couldn't see her own paw in the blink of an eye?
Hu Tutu stepped forward cautiously, water sounding beneath her feet as she moved. Hugging her suona, the little fox gazed at the oppressive, boundless darkness before her, tears welling in her eyes.
"Hey! Is anyone there? It's me, Tutu! Eldest Senior Brother! Where are you?" Growing more frightened, Hu Tutu couldn't help shouting again.
Her childish voice, thick with tears, echoed through the darkness, but no answer came.
"Does nobody want me anymore? Tutu won't ever slack off again! Boohoo..." The little fox plopped down in the water, her ears drooping as she began to cry.
She had no idea how long she cried. Only after she had cried until she no longer wanted to cry did Hu Tutu pull herself together and cautiously inch forward again.
Since she couldn't see anything, she gripped her suona in both little paws and waved it around, probing for danger ahead.
"Come here!" A shrill female voice suddenly came from far away. It sounded very familiar to Tutu, but she couldn't remember where she had heard it before.
"Hurry over! Come here, quickly!" The voice grew increasingly urgent, seemingly very anxious.
"Who's there?" Hu Tutu mustered her courage and shouted ahead.
"It's me! I am you! You are me! Come here!" the urgent female voice spoke again.
"You are me? I am you?" Those two sentences instantly left Hu Tutu's not-so-clever little head