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“B-but it’s so cute!”

“Have you never heard the saying ‘stranger-danger’?”

But she didn’t pay any attention to the boys’ scolding; she was too mesmerized and a bit frightened by another magical being–a moving chocolate statue of herself. She started taking a few careful steps towards it before putting one of her hands in front of it and touching it lightly.

Suddenly, the statue turned to sand and quickly sank into the ground. The whole world around them started slowly deconstructing itself: the trees melted into a puke-colored puddle of sweetness, the rivers dried out and left only a depressing desert behind, and all of the critters wandering about fell straight through the floor. And then the whole fabric of reality started ripping. Everything, in what used to be a fun and colorful world, now was completely unrecognizable before it became a dark, endless void.

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