Unthersee - The End

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The cold breeze makes me calm down a bit.
I read so many books about unbelievable things but this is really crazy.
I must be dreaming right now because how could I possibly go into the world of my favourite book. How could this happen to me?

Let's just say this is real and it is possible to get dragged in a book made of paper and ink.
Thinking back to the last moments before the jump into this world, I remember the strange book without a cover or content.
Maybe it happend because I opened it and wanted to know what it is about.

Then I guess I took over the main characters body.
Oh! Now I remember the place I woke up at. It is the place Aurora secretly trains her body and magic powers.
But she spends a day there at most and not that long so her dad and the whole village would worry about her.

Maybe it took some time until I woke up in her body. Maybe my soul or brain or whatever is still me in Aurora's body needed that long to adjust or something.

So if we continue this thought I will have to live Aurora's life until I find a way to leave her body and this world and a way back home? Then I'll have to go to this examination her dad said was in a few days.
What if I even have to be chosen in that examination like Aurora was so this book doesn't get out of control?
Then I would have to go the dead land and meet the three teenagers from other places in Unthersee and with different element powers and then I would have to save the whole planet with them.

That's totally absurd! How could I actually do that?

"Aurora? Are you okay? What is wrong?", a really worried man in light yellow garment comes over to me. "Is it because of what happend while you were away?"
I turn around and look at him. Maybe I should really try to take over Aurora's place for now since I don't know for sure what happened and how I can go back home.
So this man will be my father from now on?
I study his wise, really blue eyes, his small nose, the thin lips and the long white beard.
This will be my father and my family from now on?

"Everything is okay, I just needed some air. I am sorry, father!", I reply and smile at him. "Please don't worry so much."
His eyes still don't lose their worried expression.
"Do you want to lay down a little bit and recover?"
I have to think about the description of Aurora's room right away.
It was on the right side next to the entrance when you go through a cloth that has the same function as a door.
Somehow I am curious if I am right and the book I read so diligently really describes this world perfectly.

"Yes, I think I just need some time to regain my strength but please don't worry nevertheless.", I say with the intention to check whether this world really is the dead ringer of the book I read about and I really were brought in it.
Thinking about dead ringer; did the author create this world while writing the book or did he write about this world that already existed? I will never know.

My father nods and points towards in the direction I guessed Aurora's room is.
"I will wait."
"Thank you, father." I say and walk towards the house.

After going through the doorway I turn right and see another gateway in the wall made of fabric.
My heart beats faster.
I stop and carefully open the cloth hanging in front of that gateway.

As I look into the room behind it, I realise right away where I am.
It is the familiar room with the light blue blanket on a thin mat, the picture of a night sky that was embroidered in the fabric of the wall on the left, the petite shelve with a few pretty white and blue tesselated flowers on it and in the window above Aurora's bed you can see a small garden full with vegetables, grasses and flowers and the vast of the blue sky behind the garden and above it.
It feels so much like home and a strange warm feeling fills my chest.

Why doesn't it scare me? This is evidence that I really jumped into my favourite book and I still feel so peaceful.
I breath in the air that has a slightly sweet smell, maybe from the flowers on the shelve, and just take the impression in for a moment.
Why do I feel more at home than I feel when I actually am at home?
It's crazy.

I come closer to the blanket Aurora sleeps with and touch it slightly.
It has exactly the texture I imagined.
It is soft like a feather and still kind of firm.

After turning to the small shelve where Aurora keeps her clothes, I open it and see all of the pretty dresses she owns, the dresses she wears when she fights and also her nightdress.
I decide to take the nightdress out and take a closer look at it before I change into it.
It's color is in the same light blue as the dress I am wearing right now and other than that there is nothing special to it; just like the author described it but when I am wearing it, I feel the softness of the fabric that goes down to my feet and feels kind of heavy and light at the same time.

Suddenly I realise I really am a little bit tired. Very tired to be true.
It was a little bit too much for today, it seems and I am not really surprised after all the super crazy things that happened today.
So I set my knees on the mat Aurora usually sleeps on, throw my whole body to the left so I lay on my side and tuck myself up.
A sigh escapes from my mouth.
I feel so comfy.

A few seconds and not even a single thought later, I am in the world of dreams already and somehow this world of dreams that looked like the world I am in now, is now my reality and the world that used to be my reality is now the world I visit in my dreams.

The first thing I realise when I open my eyes is that it is completely dark around me.
I sit up and shove the blanket away from me.
I wonder what time it is but of course I won't be able to look at a clock so I just get up to leave my room and see if I can find my father.

In the big room that includes the dining room, the living room and the entrance it is just as dark as it is in my room so I walk around the big chair you see first when you walk in the house and carefully open the cloth in front of the door behind it.
I peek in the room and can identify my father lying on his mat, tucked in his blanket and fast asleep, so I quietly close the entrance again and leave the house.

The cold and clear night air welcomes me right away.
Looking above me, I can see thousands of stars and- the earth!
The earth seems to look at me with her wise and old eyes, and her blue oceans and green continents make me feel so lonely and far away from home.
To be true my home planet really is a beauty.
So colorful and full of life.
I actually get a little bit teary at this far away sight.

And I know for sure, the way I still have to go, is at least as long as the earth is away from me.