At a closer inspection, she saw that the boy had long hair that went beyond his shoulders and the girl had short spiky hair and her eyes looked funny. And her lips. Maybe the iron beast had hurt her before the boy had killed it. The boy had a ring in his lower lip and another one in his ear while the girl had none. Sam was pretty much confused by now. Weren’t girls supposed to have long hair and rings in their ears and boys short hair and no rings? Where was she?, she thought to herself when the better question should have been “when”, not “where”……
“Hi…” Sam said shyly when she got next to them. But they just ignored her. So she tried again, this time a little louder. “Hello…”. This time she got a reaction. Not what she would have expected, nonetheless.
“Beat it, weirdo” said the boy in a rough voice while the girl grinned at her and then started laughing. She decided to leave them alone and find someone else, someone nicer. While she was going away she could hear them talking about her. The girl was saying that she looked funny and that her clothes were so plain and out of place. Sam thought the same thing about them. Something was clearly not right. She went down the alley in the park until she reached its end. Then all just got to a whole new level of weird. There were so many lights and noises coming from just about everywhere. All the houses were lit but that wasn’t candle light, couldn’t be. It was way stronger, just like the lights in the park. And whoa, there were other buildings, like sorcerers' towers or something. And there were lights everywhere. “Are there so many wizards here?” She wondered as there were towers everywhere. Where was she? Clearly she wasn’t in her home town anymore.
As she was about to cross the street she was almost knocked down by something that went by her as swift as the wind. “What in God’s name was that!?” Sam wondered as she had almost been hit by a passing car.