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The sobbing Jesse pointed to the pile of rubble at
which Mags was barking furiously.
"What's he barking at, the idiot?" demanded Dad. "There's nothing
there!"
"Holly went to fetch the frisbee and she just disappeared!" explained
his sobbing daughter.
Mum (Mom) cradled the distraught girl as Dad dug furiously around the
mound, thinking she might have fallen down a hole. Try as he did,
he could find no holes.
As the lightning flashed once again, he briefly
caught a glimpse of a girl as though in a mirage. "Holly!" he cried in
stunned surprise.
"Dad! Dad! Help me!" Holly cried out, "I can't get back!"
Rowan the Arch-Druid ran over to survey the scene. An eerie glow of
static electricity had formed on the wet, upright stones. With one
hand, he rubbed them and realised what had happened.
"Holly!" he shouted. "When the lightning flashes again, run through the
same place you went in!"
"Help me please!" cried Holly from the other side. "Mum (Mom), Dad, help
me!"
The official guide turned up, demanding, "What's going on?" He turned a
deathly pale as he saw the fading image
of Holly by the mound.
No more lightning flashed as the black cloud was blown away by a fresh
wind. Dad looked on helpless as the
mirage that was his daughter now faded. Racking his brains, he shouted,
"Think Holly, think! Use your brains darling!"
"What can I do," came Holly's faint reply.
"Find a holy man!" Rowan shouted. "We'll try to do something from this
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