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four. The top left circle had what looked like a flame. The top right had what appeared to be a water drop. The bottom left had a crooked diamond, and the bottom right had a swirling line, like a spiral.
    “It’s beautiful.”
    “Thank you. They all look very similar. Some are engraved differently, or made of different materials. Mine was passed down from my father, and his father before him.”
    He took it back from me and set it down on the grass, laying it flat. He stepped back from it and placed his hands in front of him, palms down toward the device.
    For a minute nothing happened, until it started to get warmer and the wind picked up slightly. I felt that same weird mist then, and I was almost certain it came from his hands and went toward that little tripudio thing.
    “What is that?” I demanded. “I felt that back at my home, when my parents…”
    “It is magic. Only Fae can feel it.” He reached out a hand for me. “You must hold my hand. Without magic you cannot enter.”
    I grabbed hold of his hand and looked up at him, waiting for him to explain more to me. Like how the hell that tiny device would take us from Kansas to Texas. But once I touched his hand, I saw it. The Tripudio was spinning, and the tiny hole in the middle had grown much larger. So large that perhaps a person could fit through it.
    Then I got scared. Did he expect me to jump into a hole in the ground?
    “What now? I’m not jumping down the rabbit hole. You can call me Lily, not Alice,” I told him.
    He laughed, like an actual laugh. And it was so strange, because I never made people laugh. I felt like a lifetime has gone by without me making anyone else laugh, and yet this stranger thought I was funny. I couldn’t help but be thankful again for him and his methods of keeping my mind off my parents.
    “Don’t worry, it’s not Wonderland we are going to.” Then, without any warning, he pulled me toward him in an almost-embrace, and jumped with me in his arms.
    I felt my feet leave the ground, and I felt the mist circle around me, and for a single moment I really did feel like Alice jumping down a rabbit hole. When he started to let me go, I pulled myself closer to him, wrapping my arms around his neck for fear of falling into oblivion.
    “You don’t have to hold on so tight. All you need to do is hold my hand as we walk through it. I only needed to hold onto you while we jumped in, and then again when we jump out.”
    “But I’ll fall,” I argued. I felt like I was already falling.
    “Open your eyes.” So I did. His eyes were the first thing I saw. They were so green. No longer dark green, like before. Now they were bright, like a light was shining through them. And then I realized how close we were, with my arms wrapped around his neck, holding on for dear life.
    I looked down at my feet and noticed, though I couldn’t feel anything, I could see something beneath us. I was walking on the stars. At least that’s what it looked like. Below us everything was dark blue, almost black, with tiny lights flickering in and out in various locations.
    I released my hold on his neck and stood in front of him, only holding onto one of his hands. Everything around us was the same. Everything was so dark. Dark blues, dark purples, dark reds and greens. But it was all so dark it was almost black, with only the tiny lights all over illuminating everything. It was like a tunnel, a tunnel you could only see but not feel.
    “Are we in the sky? Because, Toto, we are so not in Kansas anymore.”
    He smiled at my Wizard of O z reference. “It looks like it, doesn’t it? This is the inside of the tripudio.”
    “How does it know where we want to go?” It was all so mind-boggling.
    “I’m telling it where I want to go. I opened it with my magic, and so it obeys my command. It’s like…like I pushed a button, just as you program a microwave to do something with a button.”
    “Oh,” was all I could think to say. “Wow.” Then we walked