One Small Mistake

One small mistake, one little mistake, and I’m dangling upside down from the ceiling. Just six hours ago I was at home minding my own business, finishing my book. When I was done with it, I decided to do a stupid thing and go inside my Father’s restricted study. Instead of waiting for him I walked in their and put my book on the shelf. I had been wanting to look in there for a long time, but stopped myself at warnings from father about getting grounded if I went in there. While I was in their, I saw a book on the shelf that I loved. Narnia. I grabbed it intending to pull it off the shelf, but the book wouldn’t come all the way out. I pulled on it harder and suddenly their was a click and the book case creaked open. The books started crashing down. One hit me on the head and I fell to the ground. Suddenly, the books got a hazy golden glow. They stopped in mid-air. It was like some sort of magic. That’s when I realized, it was magic! I tentatively pulled open the book shelf open and perked inside. What I saw was crazy! Their was a book inside a little room behind the book shelf. The book was floating, and the pages were glowing the same shade of gold as the books, but bright. So bright it hurt. Me, being the reader I was walked over to the book and reached out my hand. The second my fingers made contact, everything disappeared. The little wooden room around me. The floor under my feet. Even the book. I was falling into a hole. I tried to scream but no sound came out. I’m dyeing I thought, which was my last conscious thought before suddenly I wasn’t falling into nothingness anymore. I was falling into solid ground. I tried to scream, and this time I could. I screamed until I hit the ground. Pain, then darkness. I woke up later to excruciating pain. I jerked up, crying out in pain. Suddenly, someone put their hands on my shoulders easing me back down onto my back. It was then that I realized that I was laying in a bed. The person next to me was a man. He was young, probably in his late twenties. He spoke softly to me, telling me that everything was going to be okay. His voice soothed me and I felt my heart rate slow down. When he saw that I was calm, he started asking me questions. I answered all of them truthfully, even though I had just met him. He didn’t seem surprised at all about the book. He did seem concerned, though. Suddenly, the door flew open, and a woman came bounding into the room. She looked about as old as he was. She was slim with her hair pulled up with a ribbon. He greeted her with a kiss, so I assumed that they were married. She looked over at her husband, surprised when she saw me. He filled her in on the whole story. When he was done, she came over and talked to me. She told me that she had some bad news. She told me that I would be stuck in this strange world for five years. The circumstances for a portal to open back to earth only happened once every five years, and even worse their was a bounty for humans in this kingdom. They only spared humans who were born in the kingdom. This meant that for five years I would have to somehow evade a whole hoard of soldiers and spies, and to make matters worse I also had to figure out this strange new world. I was still intently worrying about my problems when their was a knock on the door. The woman, who was still sitting next to me suddenly went pale, which made me suspect that whoever was at the door was probably not really nice. The man ran over and covered all of the windows. He quickly picked me up and brought me over to the wardrobe set me inside, warning me to be quiet. I leaned up against the side inside so that I didn’t fall. By now the person at the door was banging on it and warning us that if we didn’t open the door they would kick it in. I watched through a key hole in the wardrobe as the man opened the door and talked to the soldiers. He pretended like he was finishing putting his belt on and said, “just finishing up something real quick”. I cringed thinking of what he was using as an excuse. The soldier took a second to do the same thing, and then said, “we have reason to believe that you are harboring a human fugitive, and we would like to inspect your house. The man’s face went pale but he opened the door to let the soldiers in. It didn’t take them long to find me. The soldier that had knocked on the door opened the wardrobe, and suddenly what he was looking for fell right into his lap. Like literally fell on top of him. I cried out in pain as I hit the floor. He quickly stood up, and picked me up roughly. The pain brought tears to my eyes. “Better bring her to a healer”, he said,” no need for her to suffer more than she has to. They brought me outside and threw me in a cage in the back of the wagon. The couple ran outside, begging them not to take me. The soldiers got in the wagon and we started to move. When they got me to the castle, the healer cured me, and they hung me from the ceiling over a cat of boiling liquid. I closed my eyes and thought, this is the end.

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