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surreal,
standing like soldiers over their town.
    Anna turned into a hidden drive in a grove
of trees and the car crunched down a long unpaved road for several
minutes. After some time, they pulled over into a large clearing,
and Keegan noticed Spencer’s truck along with Calvron's red
mustang. There were also several others that she didn’t
recognize.
    They stumbled down the rocks of a small
hill. “Where are we going?” Keegan asked. Anna and Lauren just
laughed but didn’t answer. They came to the bottom where Keegan was
entranced to find a wooden door that stood on its own in the
grass.
    “Keegan, open the door!” Lauren yelled and
shooed her toward the door with her hand.
    Fascinated, Keegan peered around the wooden
frame. There was nothing but more grass and woods behind it. She
circled around it and then turned back to her friends with a
puzzled look on her face.
    “Just open it,” Anna giggled.
    Keegan grabbed the handle and yanked the
door open.
    What she saw left her speechless.
    It looked like a magical wonderland. It was
like she’d stepped onto the page of a make-believe land in a novel
or a movie. Yeah, that’s what it was like: walking into the movie Avatar .
Everything was bright and cheerful. The plants and the flowers were
lush and exotic, while the trees soared high over her head and the
distant patter of rain on the canopy met her ears.
    Lauren put her hands on Keegan’s back and
gave her a shove. “Yeah, yeah it’s magical, just get in there.”
    Anna stepped through with Keegan and nudged
her shoulder, “I told you Calvron was amazing.”
    Keegan turned wide eyes to Anna, her mouth
open. “He did this?”
    “Yep,” Anna nodded. Her incredible bright
green eyes surveyed the landscape. “He can create a whole alternate
world. We come here to play and be ourselves.” She gestured around
them.
    Keegan looked closer to where Anna indicated
and could see there were several different magical creatures
already there with them. Of course, you couldn’t miss the three
huge, beautiful cats that sauntered their way. She laughed when
they rubbed up against her legs like they were pets and she could
have sworn the tiger was purring. That would, of course, be Donald.
She reached down and rubbed behind his ears, catching his big eyes
with her own while he leaned his soft face into her hands.
    Keegan watched Spencer in his panther form.
His green eyes were shocking next to his black fur. And Sam, even
as a lion, was the most beautiful of the group. They nudged against
Lauren and Anna playfully, and tried to get them moving. “One
minute, let her take it all in, we don’t have to start right away,”
Lauren chuckled to Sam while she ran her hands through his lion’s
mane.
    The big cats lay down and stretched out
lazily and Spencer and Sam batted at each other with their giant
paws. Lauren’s wings unfurled behind her and Keegan reached out to
touch one of the stars that danced around them, but her finger went
right through it.
    She glanced over at Anna and thought, Wow . Both of
her best friends were so beautiful, there was no doubt about that.
Calvron’s magical land only seemed to enhance their beauty, just
like the flowers and the rest of their surroundings. Anna's eyes
were always a startling color of green, but they were even more so
here, almost a match for the vivid green color of the foliage. It
was as if she were staring into emerald jewels instead of eyes.
Everything about them was different. They almost looked like
animated versions of themselves, their eyes larger and skin
aglow.
    Neither of them wore their regular clothes
any longer, either. Lauren wore a sparkly dress that fell in pretty
pink strips to her knees, while Anna wore a satin black sheath with
bell sleeves.
    Keegan couldn't help but wonder what she
looked like. Too bad there wasn’t a mirror around. She looked down,
surprised to find that she wasn’t in her jeans and t-shirt anymore.
Her dress was an ankle length green