The Land of Stories: The Unknown Dimension

Prologue

The streets were full of shapes that were barely visible. People is their correct term, but that's not even close to what they are. Maybe rodents. Maybe animals. Maybe chameleons, but then again their just so dirty that they blend in with their surroundings. 

And it had been like this for the last decade. Many call it the 'Poor Age'. 

You see, almost exactly a decade ago, the crops stopped growing.

It was the weirdest thing anybody had ever seen.

It wasn't the weather; the weather was practically perfect for crops. The scale was balanced in terms of temperature, the soil was actually quite good. It was as though somebody had cast a spell on all the seeds, preventing them from growing.

And then the strangest thing happened: it continued. 

Every year since then, nothing has been growing. Not a single thing.

So, ages ago, those people were perfectly fine farmers.

Now they're beggars.

And, worse, there's an epidemic for the Bubonic plague. Few can afford the cure for the barbaric illness, so many die from it.

However, in all of this darkness, a girl bikes down the street.

She sticks out like a sore thumb. Instead of wearing dirty ragged clothing, or no clothes at all, she was wearing a pink sweatshirt and jeans. Even better, her clothes were clean.

Her hair is jet black and wavy with emerald eyes.

Everybody knows her family, the Green family. The Green family is different from all the other families: they were never farmers. They owned Green's Technologies, which sells technologies only the richest can afford.

They get money from this, though.

In fact, they're in the top 1% in terms of money. Except they're not as rich as you might think they are.

Actually, they're pretty average in our terms. It's just there's so many people there that are dirt poor, so there aren't many competitors. 

Anyway, this girl's name is Violet. Violet Green. 

She's a well-known girl throughout the community, but she rarely talks. And when I say rarely, I mean never. She's like a lava cake. You need to see through the shyness to see who she really is.

Well, anyway, today Violet was biking home from school extra fast. Mostly because it's Friday (the best day of the week) and the weekend practically already started.

But then she saw something glowing. 

It was coming from a book in a garbage can. Deep inside the garbage can.

She parked her bike on the edge of the sidewalk. Her curiosity was so strong it overcame her Friday excitement. 

She walked up to the garbage can and searched through it until she was so close she could almost feel it.

"Finally!" Violet couldn't help but yell when she got it. She wondered how people lived on searching through garbage cans for food.

The book was titled "Classic Fairy Tales".

What's a fairy tale, Violet thought. It sounded like something magical to her. But there was rarely something in this dark world that brought her light.

Violet opened the book. The pages were glowing, just like she had expected.

But, then, the strangest thing happened.

A blue bird flew into the book.

Where did it go? Was all Violet could ask herself. Is it a portal?

Violet looked up at the sky. Please help me, she thought, as though the sky could hear her pleas. 

Maybe the sky is a person, Violet thought. Maybe it knows what I say. Maybe it knows so much about everything and everybody but it can't let it out because it can't talk.

Violet sighed. Of course the sky couldn't hear her. She just wished she had someone to talk to that she could trust.

And, so far, nobody had come along who she could trust.

They always ended up betraying her. Ever since the first time it happened, Violet was sure it was part of human nature.

And it was proven multiple times to her. By completely different people.

I'm getting off topic now, I'm sorry.

However, she took the book home with her.

Tucked it in her jean pocket (it wasn't a very big book. Brown, leather cover with the title engraved into it.).

Little did she know what would happen next.