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It wasn't that the door felt like rough tree bark, nor that it was curved just like a tree, that freaked Jake out. No, it was when he turned around to make sure that his room was still there and it wasn't that got him panicking.

He slid down the surface of what used to be door. His butt landed on hard packed loamy soil, nice and moist, that soaked through his jeans. He ignored that. His gaze when up. And up. And up. Sherman Sequioa? Had nothing on this tree.

"Pssst." He swatted at his ears as if a fly buzzed his face. "PSST," it went louder.

He thought he heard a sigh, and screamed like a 3 year old when a hand shook his shoulder.

"There! Hello! Do you see me now?" A girl about his age stood in front of him, her arms crossed, her mouth drawn up in a puzzled one sided what-the-heck expression.

"I-" he started. He closed his eyes, drew a deep breath of moist foresty green air and let it out a minute later. "Where is this? And who are you?"

The girl brushed dark dirt off of her jeans. "You answer my question first: how did you get here? I turned around, and there you were, looking like Princess Leia right after she was dumped off her forest speeder."

"I don't know. I was in my room, my door changed, I touched it, and...here I am." He gazed at her intently and jerked his head expectantly.

She squatted down in front of him. Her face looked green in the filtered light. "I don't know where this is. I don't know how I got here, either. I was sneaking out of the house, the bushes next to it got larger and larger and larger and-here I am."

Jake darted his eyes about. "Have you seen any elves? You know. Like in Lothlorien? Or orcs?"

"Uh, no. If I'd seen Orlando Bloom running around, I'd have remembered that." She stood up, stretching. "Want to look around? Maybe we'll see a street light or something. Or meet a witch. Or what the heck-maybe an Ewok!"

Jake's lip lifted at the top. "I hope not. My luck I'll run into a Gingerbread House run by a cannibal witch. What's your name?"

"Kalpana, dork." She glared, challenging him to make a comment.

He stuffed his hands in his pockets, ignoring his soaked behind. "Jake. And I'm not a fan of the Ewoks."

She jumped over a root. "Don't care. Luke's a wuss."

He had to take his hands out of his pockets. It wasn't easy following her over roots and rocks, split like clay balls, without using his arms for balance. The trees were spaced at least a block apart, but considering they were each the size of a skyscraper, that didn't surprise him. "Hey, look!" He caught up to Kalpana. "Over there. Do you see it?"

Kalpana followed the direction his finger pointed and peered for a moment. "Stairs?"

"Yeah. Carved into the side of the tree."

"They start kinda high up, though," she said. "But the bark's pretty rough. Do you think you can climb it?"

"Can you?"
 
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ten minute exercise TBC

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