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Cold and wet, tired and exhausted, she made her way along the path through the forest. “She” was Vanessa, and she had no idea how she got here. Actually, yes she did. Her horse bucked her off, she hit her head, and her horse, Storm, had ran off.
First, she needed a plan of attack. In this case, how to find her horse. She really needed to sit down, though. So Vanessa sat on a rock. That was where things went wrong. She fell through the rock. Vanessa didn’t sit on any ordinary rock. She sat on a mirage. And the ground underneath was fake as well. She landed, hard, on a tile floor. “Hello…Vanessa…we need you,” she heard. Vanessa began to run around and scream. She felt a sharp pain in her arm and the world blacked out.
Hours after, she woke

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