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Aspen's heart beated faster than a speeding bullet as she continued free falling headfirst, side by side with the raging waterfall. "Silly children falling off of cliffs like this," an old woman's voice croaked. Then out from the crystal blue water emerged a giant nonhuman arm reaching its hands out towards Aspen catching her like a fish in a net before she could fall any longer. The hand reeled her in, the waterfall opening a pathway were a short plump woman with long blonde hair stood looking up at aspen.She carried in one hand a staff, in the other was her companion. A cricket that in comparison to the lady, looked giant and rather silly upon her. Aspen found herself levitating, she moved her hands like she was treading water in order to stay in the air as she stared at the lady in a long silence. Yet in their heads this was no silence, they were communicating by doing absolutely nothing. It was a wonderful conversation to them. The lady gave her a warm smile, and Aspen who was not used to seeing this emotion, especially directed at her, blushed.
She opened her mouth but her words came out mixed up and the sounds were almost foreign. She meant to just say "thank you," but somehow said this in a third person way, calling herself Aspen. "Aspen says thank you,"
The lady however, did not make fun of the childs mistake and rather nodded accepting Aspen's foolish words as a compliment, which she knew she had most likely intended it to be.
The old maiden then pulled down her witch styled hat, walking nowhere, yet her body got smaller and smaller. Then it was gone. "Don't leave me!" Aspen tried to go after her but at that moment the gap in the water closed splashing everywhere. Aspen coughed a bit then realized she had still been falling this whole time.
-Iris, Ender, Sapphire, and Lorana-
The four of us finished gulping down the last drop of water in our cups.
Iris didn't feel much different. She looked at Sapphire who shrugged confused, but Lorana's eyes began twitching. And the guards took this as a sign to get the hell out of there.
Aspen opened her eyes again. A shiver went down her spine and she felt motion sick. The world was literally spinning around her as images of the forest somehow surrounded her, the sky became the floor, the grass she hadn't reached was now above her and the waterfall?
She fell into a river coughing up water then the world went back to normal and she was standing safely on a sliver of white sand at the bottom of the falls.
her hazel eyes scanned the area for anyone. Instead, she spotted a small pond then bent down on her knees next to it.
She put her hand in, gliding it atop as she leaned in closer. Then without really thinking stuck her head under hoping she might drown or some shit. She was scared and confused and little and dead meat anyway. Aspen kept yelling at herself for doing this but she didn't give up that easily, she opened her eyes once underwater and just watched as nothing happened. And then as if magic something did happen, a tiny fish swam right infront of Aspen's face. And in less than a minute she was surrounded by a school of fish swimming around her in a tornado that she was the center of. A clownfish bounced off a jellyfish and away he went. Aspen's jaw dropped sending bubbles flying out of her mouth.
"What is happening?!!?!" Her mind screamed.
Then a shark swam in to the tornado, the fish all scattered. Aspen jumped back pulling her head out of the water. "Woah," she said standing back a few feet.
Another soft breeze blew, making the leaves rustle gently. But this breeze didn't feel right. just something about it creeped Aspen out.
The warm white sand she stood on soon became cold, loosing its color to greys and blues a long with everything else around her. An unexplaned surge went through Aspen's body, a feeling of darkness, but it gave her mind a strength she never knew was possible. Her limbs couldn't move when she asked them to. And so she sat there with her vision just now slowly recovering to see the lands true form. The pond turned into a puddle that couldn't be more than an inch deep, it was muddy and mushy. Aspen wiped her forehead, but when she saw her arm was covered in the same mud from the puddle.
"Aspen sick,"
She screamed running out of this part of the forest, things gradually regained color and warmth. Aspen stopped and fell to her knees in front of an old twisted tree where a dumb owl lived. "Aspen is tired," she cried falling asleep.
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