Chapter Three

The Grasslands

The four newcomers? You can probably guess who they were: Jake, Susan, Fionn, and Ann Marie.

“Okay, this is just too weird,” said Jake. And then, suddenly, it got even weirder. Everyone sort of just disappeared, or rather, seemed to disappear. Actually, what happened was that they, including Jake, all became something else. Becoming something else could have made them afraid, or freak out, but it didn’t. Somehow it felt right, like it was exactly what was supposed to happen.