The Difficulties of Belief.

"Today, class, guess what we're going to learn?" the teacher chirped happily. The class of small children glanced blankly up at the teacher. Emmy was amongst them, doodling something, but obediently looking up when the teacher clapped her hands. "About dragons!" the teacher exclaimed, as if she was happy that she had received a response. Emmy stretched her mouth to the same smile as always, and hurriedly came around from her short desk to the …

…swallowed, too young to fully realize what was happening but old enough to sense it, "With all my heart..." "With all my heart," Emmy scoffed softly, but mournfully under her breath. "To fly with dragons...." Emmy's shoulders tightened. "In a land apart..." The dragons flew off the wallpaper and Max realized something was wrong, seriously wrong. But before he could realize what it was, the dragons already surrounded him and transported him to Dragon Land.