As Violet stood there, she began to feel strange. Everything around her dimmed and became kind of fuzzy and unimportant. All of her focus was on this strange sensation inside her, like a ball of light growing bigger and bigger. As it grew, she felt it was filling her up completely. Even though it felt strange, it was somehow familiar and comforting.
Violet knew it was coming before she heard it--the knock on the door. And she knew exactly who would be on the other side.
"Stay there," she told her siblings as they looked up curiously from their toast. They would try to spy on this, and she didn't want them to see or hear anything to do with that other world.
Violet paused in the hallway before opening the door. She did not want this. She wished there was some way to skip over the next t
