Chapter 2.)
Mirages are fascinating and can be disappointing things all together. A mirage is simply an illusion one sees in the desert when the heat makes the person delirious and sees things that aren't always there. For the Baudelaires, some of the mirages along the way were fascinating in many ways. Violet had seen a whole tool shed with an array of tools and gagets for inventing, Klaus had seen the tallest stack of books that he couldn't just wait to read, and Sunny had seen millions of things she could bite scattered on the highway road.
The disappointing part was that none of the things they had seen were there. When Violet went to pick up a tool and Klaus went out to pick up a book, and when Sunny went out to bite a golden cube, they had found themselves grasping or biting a cactus. I myself have expirenced this painful disappointment. Grabbing or biting a cactus isn't a very pleasant feeling so I advise you not to do so unless you are expirenced and have adult supervision.
And it was so that the Baudelaires weren't sure if the sight before them was just a mirage. The archway leading to a place lined with tall wooden beuildings seemed to blurr and sway along with the blowing winds.
"Mirage?" Sunny asked rubbing the roof of her mouth because of the previous mirage encounter.
Klaus was about to go up and touch it but he too rememberd the mirage encounter and rubbed his hand to ease the stinging pain. Violet whose hand was also stinging, picked up a pebble and tossed it at the archway's wood. Surprisngly, it had stayed solid and was not a cactus.
"Looks like we got to the town." Violet said.
The three of them walked under the archway and entered the town. It had reminded them of the time they had walked under the archway of Prufrock Prep. It had also reminded them of the Quagmires and how they missed them terribly. And so they continued to walk under this archway only this time not carrying luggage like they had in Prufrock Prep, but heavy hearts.