It felt like I was falling through space and time, there were all sorts of sounds coming from all different directions from swishes and splashes of seas and oceans to the rustling of the trees and leaves. It felt like I could hear it all. At this moment, I felt true and pure peace, like I was floating in midair without a care or worry in the world, that is until I felt a tug on my sleeve.

I opened my eyes, remembering that I was with a woman who I had never met before. We made eye contact and she looked down at our hands and then, I remembered what she said, "Don't let go of my hand." With her eyes, she communicates what she had said before, it was like she knew this was obviously going to happen, like at some point through the portal I would let go. She gripped my hand even tighter and I did the same. All of a sudden we were going at an unimaginable speed. I felt nothing and everything at the same time. What felt like hands and sweet nothings brushed up against me like they were guiding me somewhere safe and at the same time, dangerous. To a place of the unknown but known. I was doing it again, I almost let go of her hand. Sephora was the only thing keeping me grounded now and by the facial expression she was giving me, I would say if I almost let go of her hand again, she wouldn't be able to bring me back to reality again.

My eyes closed again, trying to concentrate on not letting go, what felt like seconds later, I heard her whisper into my ear, "You can open your eyes now," I opened then as she instructed, "we are here now."

Sand. It was everywhere, and it glittered like gold, it sparkled. I had never seen anything like it. Even when I went to the beach on Sunday and the sun was about to set and it shone on the sand, it had never glittered like this. The sun wasn't even out, I had never seen so many stars out before, in New York there were so many artificial lights on, so much so that I could never actually see the stars come out like this, only one or two would shine so bright it surpassed the street lights. And the air, I closed my eyes as I took a deep breath of the fresh air it almost tasted like candy, unlike what I usually breathed in.

"Come."

Again I was brought back to reality, "Where are we?" I asked

"As I said before, we are in the Kingdom of Heylrim," she said as she walked in the direction of what looked like a house in the distance, "but this time we are on planet Valeria."

"What!"

"We have to get inside, when we do, I will answer all your questions."

I walked after her until we walked side by side. I looked around as we walked and it seemed like there was nothing for miles and miles again. It was just us.

At first, it just looked like a small manor but up close...wow. I had never seen anything this big before. It was practically a castle, I felt like an ant standing close to it. We went up the stairs that felt like a journey from the actual ground, two big mahogany doors opened up without her even having to ring a bell-like they knew she was coming we walked inside and the doors closed, and then I looked back and my eyes widened only to see that no one was actually there. I was about to ask her how that happened but before I could she spoke first,

"Let me show you to your room, clothes have already been arranged for you if you don't like anything inform me and we shall discuss the replacement of it."

I nodded as we went up one of the double staircases. I ran my hand along the black railing as we went up, and it was as smooth as a baby's bottom, a pure white chandelier reflecting almost golden light in the middle of the double stairs. I caught a glimpse of what looked like the living room as we went up, it looked like a mixture of colors but also one color. I can't believe I'm actually excited to explore the rest of the house, sorry, I mean castle.

We walked up to a reddish-white door and she turned to me, "this is your room, have a bath get dressed and come back down the stairs, I'll be waiting for you."

Before I could say anything, she dashed off in a different direction, and I was left alone. I guess my questions would remain unanswered until we meet downstairs again. As I thought this I entered my room and I was simply stupefied by the size of what was called my room. This to me was basically every apartment on the top floor of the place I used to live in.

Right in the middle, there was a queen-sized bed covered in a red and white duvet with at least over 10 pillows scattered everywhere. It looked like a very large soft velvet cake you could sleep on.

In the right part of the room, there was a black L-shaped couch with white pillows on it, and a huge 12-inch screen TV in front of it, then an even bigger window covering a whole wall with reddish purplish drapes, I walked towards it, and what a view. I could see the ocean where Sephora and I had been before we came to the house, and just below, I could see a garden filled with all types of roses, I promised myself to go take a look at it later.

I walked to the left side of the room, there was a reddish purplish vanity table that looked embedded into the wall, a whole mirror covering the top and hardwood joint to it with jewelry, and makeup, and all sort placed on top of it two double doors, one on the left and the other on the right. I decided to go into the one on the right saying to myself that if it was the bathroom, I would just take a shower, and get a dress in whatever I found in the closet but if it was the closet I would explore more of the room. I guess I was just going to take a shower, maybe a long one...a really really long one.

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Hi everyone, Lizzy here. So here is the new chapter hope you like it, please don't forget to like, vote and comment on what I could do to make the book better or what I could do to make my writing better and maybe the next chapter might be someone else's POV or not... we'll see😉😊. Anyway, again hope you like this chapter, thank you for reading, and I love you all, byeee💎💎💖💖💖.