Why? Was all I could think of saying. Was I just hallucinating all of that? Was it an illusion? I had so many questions that I was never going to get answers for. The only thing I could say that would make sense was that it was magic. That was the only thing that could be the reason for it. 

The whole place had to be filled with pure magic. Otherwise nothing about the dullness would make sense. 

Before we went inside, Amelia told me that I should never go into that forest alone. According to her, I was too young and too vulnerable to go inside by myself. I don’t know what she meant by vulnerable but I decided to listen to her anyway. There had to be a reason for her warning. 

Though I didn’t understand how I was the vulnerable one and she wasn’t. We were children without any means of protecting ourselves… Yet I was the weaker one out of the both of us? 

It made no sense. 

Amelia walked inside making sure our parents were still asleep. When the coast was clear I silently walked inside, getting our shoes off, and we headed our separate ways. 

After that night, Amelia and I went out exploring every chance we got. It was our way of bonding as siblings. Neither of us snitched on the other, no matter what it was. We kept that secret between us for however long we could. 

But at some point, things do come to an end.