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REACHING
Tanzaa looked down from the top of the world and knew she had found her home. Surrounded by mountains and impenetrable but by magic, she saw a lush green valley filled with summer flowers. Waterfalls, ponds, pools, rivers, and springs glittered in the winter sun. In the very center of the valley stood a white marble Wise One's palace. The edifice called to her unlike the other two she had visited. Isolated and graceful - it was hers. That conviction rang like an echo from the mountains. She marveled at the magic that kept a summer garden so bright and warm amid the perpetual winter here. How long had it been waiting for her here? She could not fathom the magic required to create and maintain such wonder.
She took one more determined step toward the edge but found herself blo
