Five Tiny Dwarves, a Circle, a Cat, and the Girl Who Saw it All
(Part 3 - Unedited/Unfinished)
by Jake Cordova

The girl ran into the woods and fell immediately into a giant hole in the ground. She could see very little of anything on her way down but from the roots and pebbles striking her face she assumed the hole went deep underneath the earth's surface.

On her way down she nearly toppled onto the tiny dwarf who had chased after his hat.

"Hello!" she said as they fell. "I came looking after you and there you are!"

The dwarf looked up at the girl, both of his hands clenched tightly around his orange cap.

"Hello." He offered. "We're falling!"

"Yes, we are." Replied the girl. "Do you know where to?"

"Not really. Somewhere down below."

Not soon after that the two landed in what appeared to be a giant pile of goose feathers. The girl suffered minor bruises on her arm but the dwarf seemed fine. In fact, he was already up and running towards a wooden staircase.

"This way." He called, and disappeared behind a tiny wooden door.

The girl watched him close the door and crawled as fast as she could towards the staircase. She got to her feet on the way up and opened the wooden door. On the other side was a brightly lit room with a wooden table standing alone against the wall. The dwarf was nowhere to be seen and the girl was feeling put out by his quick abandonment. After all, she'd gone into the woods to make sure he was all right and he goes running off without her. Hmph!

The girl walked cautiously towards the table and gasped as the floor gave way underneath her feet. She slid down an immense metal slide twisting this way and that, surrounded by bright red colors. It might have been fun if she knew it was coming, but the swiftness of it startled her and she screamed all the way down.

Soon the ride was over and she was again flopped into a brightly lit room, this one hyper-violet with dark circles on the wall. Quickly, she got to her feet and did not dare take a step for fear she might again fall deeper into the underground.

"Hello?" she called out, hoping with all of her heart to hear the little dwarf's reply. But only silence called back to her. Complete and hot in its stillness. "Is anybody there?"

As she waited for a reply she quickly scanned the room. Her eyes must have been playing a trick on her because the circles on the walls seemed to be moving. They wiggled and bounced against each other falling up into the ceiling. The girl followed a circle with her eyes up the side of one wall. To her astonishment, as saw the circle move through the ceiling and continue upwards into a misty hue.

Without hesitation, the girl grabbed hold of the next large circle and clung to it with all of her strength. She put her feet into other circles coming up from the floor and was easily lifted out of the room into the misty glow above…

The End

The Author Jake Cordova has his own web site with more interesting and unusual stories at:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/Jakebay/onepagers/