Beneath Reality
Thank you Loyola for sharing your fantastical tale with our young readers!
'Everyone in this heavily isolated city wonders about what lays beneath the misty cloud of reality. What kind of other imaginations span the earth? Only young, curious people are able to cross the layer to discover what really lays beneath this world of reality. People with hearts of melted stone, will never come close to the truth. Beneath reality is another world of imagination altogether.
The vast, indigo sky was stretched across what we call the world of reality. The girl stalked past all of the glorious plants, focused on only one thing. Her silky, dark brown hair flailed behind her in the whipping wind. She had absorbing, twinkling green eyes that were hard to look away from. She took one last step, then slowly turned with her eyes narrowed. The forest behind her was quiet, the city miles away. All she wanted was to have some time to herself. Placing her hand softly on the grass, she thought for a moment. What creatures stirred beneath the earth? Beneath reality? She closed her eyes, imagining the complete different world. Maybe dragons lived, friends to all animals, big and small. Or maybe evil demons ruled the outer world, careless to feelings of love and kindness.
As the sun rose above the lime-green hills, the people of Entile started to stir. The girl was awake now, gazing at the snow-white clouds that slashed across the sky, like pale wounds on a heavily injured animal.
“Another morning...” She stopped, her gaze immediately darting to a flashing light coming from her left, pulsing from a large, blossoming tree. She slowly and hesitantly made her way towards it. When she was a metre away from it, it didn’t seem real at all. The light was fierce, swallowing the tree’s truck in its fury to be seen.
“What is that...?” The girl breathed, reaching out a hand to touch the tree. The light started to flash faster, getting too hard to look at, and forced her to have to back away with an annoyed expression. Her eyes were lit with an undisguised rage. She wanted to discover more about this strange, controlling light that was such a temptation to touch. With a grunt, she reluctantly turned away, feeling the mysterious warmth of the light touching her skin. As she started to walk back to Entile, something crunched behind her.
She whipped around to see nothing, only the blossoming tree with the light hurting her eyes. “Hello, young Skyler. Don’t you want to know what lies beneath reality?” The voice spoke in her head, sending slashes of pain through her whole body. “Walk...walk through the light.”
Staggering, she felt something pull her towards the light, carrying her. Skyler gasped in horror, feeling the warmth of the light stronger than ever.
Suddenly, with a bolt of pain, the light engulfed her, becoming everything, filling her vision until all she could see was light. She let herself go to the light, letting it take her to what lay beneath...'