(Author: Alasia)
Of all the things in the world that Leila Morgan hated most in the world,
modern science was the biggest one. She loved to read about the middle
ages, just because of the times. The fighting and the food. The clothes
and the way all women were treated with respect. Leila especially loved
J.R.R. Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth. She loved how he twisted legends
of the world she lived in into reality. Her copy of the Lord of the Ring
(a three in one) was so beat up that the cover was falling off. She had
a copy of The Hobbit, but she'd only read it once, believing it to be the
longest prelude in history.
But today was not a good day. The skies over Edinburgh, Scotland were
coal gray, and rain pelted down on the streets like the sky was falling.
Leila was soaking wet. Her school uniform in ruins and she ran down the
street, her bag over her head. What she wouldn't give for a hot bath and
some cocoa. But fate did not have this in store for her. No, it had something
else in mind.
She turned a corner and began to run down the alley, taking a short
cut home that cut five minutes from the trip. She hated this route, but
at the moment, she was desperate. The alley was dark and smelled foul,
even with the rain. Puddles circled in mud were her path and she paid them
no heed. This was a bad idea. She slipped and began to fall. Her bag went
flying and she put her hands out to stop her from landing face first in
the puddle beneath her. But she didn't land on rain soaked mud filled with
garbage.....
