I stretched and yawned, scrunched deeper into my satin pillow. 2) The Multiple Suns were shining brightly in the purple sky. 5) Purple? It couldn’t possibly be purple!

I popped upright in bed. 3) What kind of place WAS this? Glancing around, I noticed that there was IVY growing up my bedroom walls — and a peacock shrieking in the corner, tailfeathers spread wide.

OK, I was used to lucid dreaming. I do it all the time. And when I recognize that I am dreaming, I wake up in the real world. So, I’m dreaming. Wake up! Wake up!

Hmmm. Nothing. Oh, gosh, it just got WORSE. There is a tiny blue gremlin perched on my footboard, grinning at me!

“1) Do you believe in magic?”

No, nyet, nein, no way, no how, never. STOP IT! “They” usually don’t let these stupid lucid dreams go on THIS long.

Get up, throw open the window, inhale, grab my glass of water and splash it on my face. NOTHING. Sheesh — and there goes a unicorn prancing across the field outside — and I SWEAR that is a silver dragon (with a RIDER) sailing by overhead, doing loop-the-loops!

I hear a discrete knock on my door. Turning, I see — um — uh — a muscular man, clad in black velvet, sweeping off his feathered cap.

“Milady, your carriage awaits to take you to the prince!”

WELL! 4) I might as well go with the flow!

sometimes unexplainable things happen in our life which makes us question our own faith. Do you believe in magic? i never did till i was sleeping and started dreaming a dream so good that it felt real. it felt like paradise. the multiple suns were shining brightly. i stepped on the clear blue water that formed a pool at my feet. what kind of place WAS this? i suddenly fell in with a splash and slowly drifted downstream. i tried to swim my way out but thought i might as well go with the flow. i can upon a waterfalls flowing high from a cliff made of grass the color of…. Purple? it couldn’t possible be purple!.. almost looked liked candy.. what can i say? i shouldn’t have watched willi wonka and the chocolate factory that night… 😉

Do you believe in magic? Well, I do. When most of the people on this planet take the universe so seriously that all the planets revolve around a single Sun, in MY little world, yet so vast, there are multiple suns, yes, you heard me right…. multiple suns, one purple and the other ones orangey-yellow… and on one particular occasion the multiple suns were shining brightly…. oh, EVER so brightly! You gasp, “One of them was PURPLE???? It couldn’t POSSIBLY be purple!!! Are you NUTS?!?!” To which I reply back matter-of-factly, “No, ’tis true. Do I ever lie?” And you, well, you just wonder, “What kind of place WAS this? And am I dealing with a nutcase??” Me: “No, silly, this place is VERY real…. and I am as sane as can be, you see. This place is very real to me…. and it can be real to you, too. It’s called using your imagination. Since I love to travel and go different places but am penniless… with my imagination, I get to go on countless adventures right where I am. You see…. _I_ only live once in this lifetime, so I might as well go with the flow and let my mind take me wherever it goes!”

We had been walking for days. I didn’t know where he was taking me, but by now I had ceased to care. The desert heat has that effect on willpower. And it wasn’t like I even had a choice in the matter anymore; I had no idea where I was. I might as well go with the flow, right?

We continued our march. Days passed. Eternities passed. I ran out of water, yet still we walked. And walked. And walked. Finally, he stopped. The plainsman turned to me, his sand-colored tunic flaring about him, and said the first words that I heard in weeks. “Do you believe in magic?”

No, I don’t. What’s magic is that I’m still alive after this maniac expedition. “Yes, I do.” I hate you. I hate sand. I hate the desert. I hate the suns. All six of them. And as soon as you show me where a road is, I’m leaving. “I have always believed in magic.”

“Well, then, you have completed your first lesson. We shall begin on the second in the morning. For now, sleep.”

As appealing as that sounded, I didn’t even see how that was possible. The Multiple Suns were shining brightly. It was blistering hot. I was hungry, thirsty. And I know it sounds crazy, but I think I was too tired to sleep. I sat down in the sand anyway. I was asleep before I knew it.

– – –

“Wake up.” This from my instructor, oh ray of sunshine that he is. “Training begins now.” He had said “first thing in the morning,” but I had thought that he meant sunrise. Which would be hours from that point. Yay.

“What? I’m awake.” More or less. “You can get started whenever you want.”

“We begin now. Stand up.”

I complied. I staggered to my feet. “I’m ready.”

“First thing. What color is magic?”

What? What color is magic? I don’t know. It doesn’t exist, so clear maybe? The cavalla badge is red, but that has nothing to do with magic. “Is it blue?”

“No. It is purple.”

Purple? It couldn’t possible be purple! On second thought, it can be whatever color it wants. It doesn’t exist, anyway. “Okay. Purple. Got it.”

“Now channel your purple into your hands.” Huh? My purple to my hands? Sure, whatever. I tried it, to no avail. “No, like this.” My instructor moved a little. I felt a chill run up my spine. I copied his movement.

“Like this?” It was crazy. It felt like ants crawling in my veins. It wasn’t comfortable.

“Now release your purple into the sky.” He did something. The sand around his feet moved a little and it seemed to get a little warmer. But most importantly, what looked like a glowing artillery shell was flying into the sky.

I tried to do the same. I felt a wind blowing around my legs. It definately got warmer. And then… nothing. But now, I knew beyond doubt that magic was very real. Just when I thought I knwe everything about the world. What kind of place was this, really?

“You do well for your first try. We continue later.”

7. final evening I had this dream with you in it and that i did not like it one bit. You have been a million. Dim being extremely dim, yet I knew you have been pretending, and eight. This sarcasm, if i’m going to call it such, does not strengthen into you. 6. Is it some devil that crawls interior you? some evil being that inhabits you?? No? nicely 2. what’s it going to be then, eh? A clockwork orange?? 4. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange? on no account I. Ta da! the top

llied with one who i care ….probably do much and love alls about it wanted you to be oby my side. And Magics is what we share.