Glimpses of Magic
Amelia Exume Age 10
Into the Enchanted Forest On a dark and stormy day, Clara, Skyler, and Sunny were braiding each other’s hair. As their mother braided Sunny’s golden yellow blonde hair, she noticed how different the girls looked as they got older. Sunny looked at her. “How did your hair look when you were my age, Mom?” she asked as her Mom continued to braid Skyler’s platinum blonde hair. She answered, “It looked exactly like Clara’s hair,” as Skyler started to braid Clara’s dirty blonde hair. Meanwhile, all nine of their enchanted work mice were running away into the enchanted forest. Grandma Willow, on her way back from her walk, checked the stables, and when she saw the missing mice, she exclaimed, “They can’t be gone. They’re the only enchanted mice in the whole forest!” As soon as she got to the great willow tree, she informed the girls and their mother that the mice were gone. She and the girls’ mother thought about who could retrieve the nine mice. They had to be at least one hundred years old and possibly as old as 113 years from the stories that were told to their grandmother. Just then, the girls realized that they were between one hundred and 113 years old themselves! No one in that village kept track of time because of the enchanted mice; everyone seemed to live forever. With this new realization, they knew they had a special connection to the mice. So with excited voices, the girls said in unison, “We’ll do it!” But their mother and grandmother questioned them, “Are you sure?” “We can find the best fairy explorers in the entire enchanted forest!” exclaimed the sisters. And so they went, right after they slept in their soft beds made out of cotton. In the middle of the night, Clara was so excited that she could not sleep, so she woke up Sunny and Skyler, and . . . they started jumping on their beds. This woke up their grandma, who made them go back to bed. She told them that if they were not well rested, they wouldn’t be able to track the mice. The next morning, they woke up, and their grandma and mother were standing at the doorway. When they got up, they ate a huge breakfast, but
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