Even though you try to go back to watching a TV show, your mind keeps going back to the mysterious portal in the closet. You decide that you’d better explore it. It was a probably-magical hole in your closet, right? Someone ought to look into that.
You grab a backpack, dusty from disuse, and fill it with water bottles, granola bars from last year’s SLRC Exam Jam, a copy of The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett, and your Nintendo Switch. Who knows how long you’ll be gone? You use the water bottle holder like a holster for your bat and settle the backpack on your shoulders. Time to explore the closet!
As you push your way through, you smell something sweet on the air. There’s crushed grass and flowers underneath your hands and knees as you crawl through the hole.
You emerge and stand, looking around you in awe. Purple water gushes over mossy green rocks in a brook running nearby. Trees taller than skyscrapers soar into the clouds, which are puffy and as lightly spun as cotton candy. The sky is tinged faintly pink. What is this place? The brook flows into a dark forest to one direction, and to a meadow filled with a rainbow of colors to the other direction. There are no signs of the mysterious creatures wearing the tiny shoes.