Thursday, June 5, 2008

Locked up little girl

I'm a cute little girl with wavy blond hair in a light purple dress, around 8 years old. While exploring one day, I touch an object that transports me into a different world where animals and humans can talk. I'm not welcome here. I'm quickly caught by this nasty old lady who locks me inside a room inside her house. It's a sitting room of sorts, located on the side of the house with a gigantic glass pane window. I watch the old lady outside as she prowls the grounds, using a spy glass to look for intruders or other people to capture. A rabbit wearing glasses is by her side, who is also on the lookout.

I decide to find a way to break out. I can't go through the door - it's magically sealed. I feel around the room in case there's a magic spot that will transport me out, like the one that took me into this world in the first place. After searching for several minutes, I touch a spot on the wall that transports me to the other side of the glass window. Now I'm outside, feeling somewhat vulnerable. I try to sneak around the other side of the house, but a black bird sees me and starts squawking like mad. The old lady arrives only seconds later, grabs me by the arm, and slams me back into the room where I was before.

After a few minutes, I decide to try again. I touch the magic spot on the wall and am transported back outside. I'm spotted by a hare walking on its hind legs, who immediately lunges for me. "Oh no," I thought to myself, "not again." However, to my surprise, the hare held me and quietly said, "come with me." He pulled me into the house through the door next to the glass window. "My gosh, what are you doing?!" the hare asked me, then saying "you need to be more careful! Let's get you out of here."

Suddenly several little Taiwanese girls entered the hallway through the same entrance, all wearing the same red school uniform. I immediately hid my head behind a curtain that was hanging over a window looking into the next room. The girls were of course infinitely curious about who this person was hiding behind the curtain. They pulled at the curtain, but I held on tight. I very much did not want to be seen, because they would know who I was and would probably tattle. Several Girls flooded into the opposite room, and I knew they could see my face. The girls on my end finally got the curtain free from my grip, and I buried my face deeper into the corner near the window. I knew they could see me anyway. But for some reason they didn't react. I look in the reflection and see that I seem to have temporarily, for that instance, turned into a tall, thin white guy. Weird. The hare said, "alright girls, clear out," and they each left, one by one.

The hare started discussing with me the escape plan. He used a magic eye to show me around the front of the house. It looked and seemed like we were really out in front of the house, but our bodies were still inside. "There is a ledge out front that you would think you could crawl below and stay out of sight, but with that magic spy glass of hers, she'll see you anyway." He told me a lot, but in the end, he just instructed me just to stay with him. We left. Sneaking and running through this way and that, he led me through a maze of different paths that all seemed a blur to me. At last, we arrived in a small grassy clearing behind the house at a tea table. He instructed me, "here just touch this, and you'll be back home." I put both my hands around the tea kettle, and sure enough, it happened. I was back in my own home, reflecting on what had just happened.

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