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A particularly ripe and beautiful bunch of berries
called to me, so I took a giant step to reach them when
suddenly the ground beneath me gave way and I fell 20
feet into a muddy hole. Completely disoriented and
with more mud falling in on top of me, all I could think
was, “Am I going to be buried alive?”
I was a terrified muddy heap lying at the bottom of
a sink hole. Each time I tried to climb out, I would just
slip back down the slimy walls.

I could see some tree roots sticking out, but they
were well out of my reach and then to make it worse, it
began to rain. I started screaming for help but to no
avail. The Professor must have left and I was on my
own. The skies darkened even more as the rains
increased. For a moment, I thought I heard someone
rustling in the bushes by the stream.

I cried out in a louder and more desperate voice
praying that someone was there. No one came.

Darkness was drawing near. The thought of being
in that dark hole all night sent me into panic.
With that, Aroha’s words floated into my
consciousness. “You affect everything around you. You
are the magician. I am, too”.

In that moment of terror, I began to feel out of
control anger and rage boiling up in me, the same way I

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