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     Nellie had no idea where she was when she woke 

up. Well actually she knew where she was, she was on 

a ledge overlooking a, well a, whatever that place was.

      She thought she was going crazy, and really she 

had to be right, because, honestly who wakes up 

looking at a bunch of huge floating rocks with castles 

on them.

      "I am crazy," she thought out loud, " Or maybe I

am just hallucinating, because I haven't had enough 

water,"

      "Nope," said a voice behind her, "We see it too,"

She turned around, but all she saw was a little patch of 

purple flowers.

     Okay, she thought to herself, i'm definitely crazy.

 But the flowers continued to talk to her. At the end of a 

very long story, they said, "Bend down and look at us 

we can't tell our stories if you can't see us,"

     So she bent down thinking that she would regret 

doing this. At the very least she would get her dress 

dirty, but as she got closer, she saw it was really two 

tiny flower shaped men. 

      She almost laughed out loud. She really was crazy. 

But she would play along with this game. 

      "Can you help me get out of this place?" she asked.

      "Why would you want to get out!" they exclaimed.

      "Look," she said "I just want to go home, can you 

help me?

       "Of course we can," they said, "Just walk over 

the land you see right now and at the end there will 

be a lot of blackness that you can't see through at 

all, and we want you to jump in it,"

      "Wait a minute," she interrupted, "You want me 

to jump in something that I can't even see 

through?" 

      "Yep," they said together, "Anyway after that 

you will end up at the sea of peaches, you will have 

to walk across the peaches without getting yourself 

killed and then you will go to the sparkle caves, then 

the waters of the forgotten and beg the giants to 

send you home.

    "What!" she exclaimed "You want me to do all 

that?"

    "Yep," they said together.  

      So Nellie started off on her journey. She took 

one step and turned around to say goodbye to the 

flowers, but the one step she took had taken her 

across half of the land. She tried to take another 

step, but this time she only went about an inch. 

     It is a magical land, she realized, I can't control 

how fast or far I go. So she went on going from fast 

to slow, long to short. 

     It was a long trip seeing how every time she 

needed to go far she went backwards and every time 

she wanted to take it slow she went so fast she 

could hardly see. When she finally reached the 

darkness she was so worn out that she had to sit 

before she even thought about jumping.

      When she finally got enough rest and summoned 

up enough courage, she jumped. It would have been 

horrible for anyone who was scared of the dark.

      Luckily she had always been fond of dark places, 

but this scared even her a little bit. The darkness was 

utterly complete. She couldn't see through it at all. It 

was smothering her, drowning her, suffocating her. Her 

eyes strained to see through the darkness, but it was 

hopeless so she just started half swimming half 

walking through the darkness. After what seemed like 

hours, she noticed the darkness was fading away. Once 

it was completely light she saw a big orange ball above 

her and a ladder hanging down from it.

      Once she got closer, she realized that they were 

really huge peaches. The sea of peaches, she realized. 

She climbed up the ladder and saw that on top of the 

peaches there were houses. 

        She almost went into the house, but then she 

remembered the flowers warning. Don't get killed is 

what they had said, which meant that the houses 

must be dangerous. But still, it did seem like a good 

idea.

       She decided to take a quick peek in one of the 

houses. It was abandoned. "Not that dangerous," she 

said out loud, but something was telling her to get out 

of here, to run. She stuck with her instincts and ran as 

fast as she could across the bridge, then the next one, 

then the next.

       When she finally got off the sea of peaches, she 

looked back and saw the whole chain of peaches was 

being set on fire by two huge dragons. 

       Whew she thought to herself I could have been 

dragon roast. She turned back and saw a small path 

leading into the woods. She followed the path for a 

while and saw a cave. 

     Finally, she thought to herself, I'm at the cave. She 

ran inside and saw the most breath taking sight ever. 

Thousands of floating, glowing spears shed a soft light 

around the cave. It looked like a lot of pretty blue stars. 

     She could go on or she could sit here in the pale 

blue light. "No" she said to herself "If I am seeing this it 

means that I am not crazy and that I have a home to 

go back to.

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