Story 2: testing

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I was a young girl and my "father" had left to take a certain test. However no one really knew what this test was like or what would happen after you took it because most who took it would disappear after. Until one day there was a small group of people that had appeared and looked unfamiliar that wore similar masks and outfits.
We (our town) came up to them and asked them questions and we found out they were the people who had managed to pass the test
When I heard this I started searching for my father and asked them where he was
A few other people from the town did the same and ended up knocking over a some of the test people. Those that fell had their masks come off and when I turned to look, I saw my father was one of them
I tried to run over towards him but somehow all the towns people (including me) had been pushed a couple of feet back with some odd kind of force.
I tried to go up to him again but the leader of the town said that the only way to get to see these people again is to take and pass the test.
I immediately said I wanted to take it. My mother tried to stop me but I got past her and went anyway. She quickly rushed after me and unhappily decided to come along.

All the people who wanted to take the test were transferred to a room to wait. Soon a man came and told us to come sit on these small benched at the front of the room. Each bench could fit two people and we all sat facing a wall in the same direction.
I ended up sitting behind the man who had told us what to do earlier and my mother had sat beside him.
He tried to explain the test and what exactly we should be trying to do during it. Though it was hard to understand what he meant when he told us.

We were supposed to be able to face fear, accept it then enjoy it ... No one really understood how that would happen but we continued to sit there.
Then suddenly the wall in front of us opened and the benches started to move forward through the hole in the wall and we were off!
We were somehow flying extremely fast down a street while sitting on these benches and we all started freaking out.
I thought about what he had said earlier, that we need to accept it and when i did my body flew up off the bench as the group continued to go forward. Then a blanket suddenly appeared underneath me and I quickly grabbed hold of it.

Once I did, it started flying and I had to try to control it. It was extremely difficult and was going way too fast for me to figure it out. The man from earlier somehow spoke to me to explain that I needed to slow down. 
I looked around and there were cars and trucks driving right beside me. I was speeding through a highway-like area and if I couldn't control the blanket soon, I would hit one of the trucks or cars. I tried to slow down by pulling on the front of the blanket which slowed it down slightly but it still didn't do much. I kept trying and eventually figured it out but I realized I was completely lost wherever I was.

I looked around and found a trailer parked on the edge of a parking lot, near a building. I flew over to it to see if anyone was there.
I hopped off my blanket and walked over to the door when a woman slammed it open. She saw me and got a large grin on her face.
She asked me if I wanted any children and I looked at her stupidly.
I was a like a child myself, why would I want children? I looked at my reflection on the trailer but I seemed like I was much older.
I told the woman that I wanted to see these children first then I would decide if I wanted them or not. The only reason I said this was because by the looks of the woman these kids would probably be beaten up or abused or something really terrible and I really couldn't leave them there.

She took me inside her trailer and began digging around, then handed me three papers.
When I looked down and read them I found out they were the birth certificates of the children.
She yelled for the kids to come in and when they did I looked them over. They were all boys but you could hardly call them kids. One was a boy about ten, then next one was a blind teenager, and the last, was an older guy in his 20s.
For some reason though I really wanted them and told her I'll take them all with me. She was happy to give them too.
The boys didn't really care but had to grab a few of their things.

When I walked to the other side of the trailer, there was a young girl who was very pregnant with either twins or triplets and was just sitting in the grass with only strips of clothing on her.
I quickly went back to the other side of the trailer and grabbed my blanket but soon realized we all wouldn't fit on it. So I decided to walk with the older guy while the younger two boys sat on the blanket.

We walked until we got to a more city like area which wasn't very far from the trailer.
We went down an alley and I thought it would be a good idea to go inside a building and take what was in there. Inside there was a wax like substance  that seemed useful for some reason. I got the younger boys to to sneak in and take it while me and the older faked being a couple outsider.The two boys got back and we quickly left trying to carry the substance.

We walked for days until we reached a specific area in the mountains. We begin using this wax like substance to make wax horses in the middle of nowhere.
The reason why is because there was a rumor that the sprits of a hundred horses would pass through here and would bring any horse like thing to life . This meaning we could travel faster if we have horses to pull a carriage that we made. So we made the horses and also a carriage they could pull. Once we finished the sprits quickly came and the horses soon came to life and began pulling us and our carriage. After some time we eventually get back to the place where I had began my test. We then found the wall I came out of when the test had started.
I touched the wall and it took me and the boys to a room where I was once again greeted by the man who had first explained our test.

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