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stopped immediately; his face inches from mine, both of us breathing heavily. His eyes seemed to be searching mine for an answer to a question I didn’t quite understand. We’ve been here before. Déjà vu all over again.
                  “Umm… maybe we should take a break for the day.” I whispered
                  He nodded his head furiously as he said, “Definitely!” and then jumped up and ran inside, leaving me behind.
                  I stared at the bright cerulean sky; ravens flying above me. I pondered Derek’s reaction and how easy it was to be with him today. I wondered why he was being so nice to me. I like this Derek better; his easy going nature. It puts me at ease; makes me feel at home.
                  I close my eyes, feel the sun on my skin, the breeze through my hair and drift away…
     
     
     
    I woke up on the ground, startled. Its dark out and I can’t see a thing. What time is it? Better question… where am I? A blue fire started to engulf me. The darkness was enveloping me like a cocoon. I stand up and look around. From what I can tell I must be in the forest… near the creek bed, but not quite there yet. Was this real? Was this a dream? I can’t tell. Somehow I feel as if I have been put in a state of delirium, as if I had been drugged.
    The sound of my heart beating is echoing in my ears. I have no idea what is going on. I start to walk back the direction in which I was sure I could find the house when I noticed something in the distance. Not ten feet ahead of me was a white buck that looked to be on fire; blue flames were shooting off of his body and running up his antlers as he stood there staring at me. The flames surrounding him was much like the light emanating from me.
                  The buck nodded his head toward what looked to be a star in the distance; beckoning me to follow him. My feet moved slowly but surely, as if they were not my own. The buck showed no hurry, patiently waiting for me to catch up. I step over fallen branches and trip over stones in the blue lit path the buck had created for me. I feel as if I have no choice but to follow him. I wasn’t sure which emotion was more prominent; curiosity or fear.
    The closer we got the more I could see what we were heading towards. Where I thought I saw a star I could now tell it was in fact a very elaborate door in the shape of a star. I ponder why a door would be in the middle of the woods… There’s no way it leads somewhere. Right?
    The buck stood before a white light directly in front of the unopened door, gazed at me a moment longer and stepped in… where the buck was, now stood a man. I am sure my face showed just how bewildered I was at this point. However, this strange man never showed one sign of noticing. He held out his hand and whispered, “Come with me, please. The Queen awaits your arrival.”
    “The Queen?” I ask quizzically.
    He simply nodded as he reached for me, pleading in his eyes. I touched the tips of his fingers, nervous and yet somewhat expectant. I knew there was no going back once I grabbed hold of his hand. If I had a choice I may have turned away. But, I soon realized that my free will was, well it was shut off to put it simply. Once our hands touched we were transported to another realm, or what I can only assume to be a different dimension. We stood in a field of flowers, flowers so beyond what we know, so beyond beauty that they simply cannot be described. The colors that shrouded the land were something I couldn’t put a name to. In our world, they simply did not exist.
    The sun I saw in the sky was a bright crimson red and the clouds were blue while the sky itself was cotton ball white. I stared up at the man beside me, for whom I could now see well. He was tall, slender, had white blonde hair, and the most extraordinary blue eyes I have ever seen. He smiled politely down at me as he guided me toward a giant mound in the