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    Panic started to set in and Betty started running wildly, as fast as she could.
    â€œAmber!” Betty shouted. Where had Amber gone?
    After a few minutes of running, Betty was panting. Just as she felt too tired to run anymore, she reached something that wasn’t a factory. There were about a hundred yards of wet, dewy grass that stood between Betty and suburban style houses. Finally, something normal!
    As she wandered toward the space, she saw there was a large oak tree with no leaves, yet its branches were dripping with rain. The whole place looked dreary; the sky was cloudy, and the machines made the place sound like a robot factory. Betty didn’t see any living people. Wait, there was someone under the oak tree standing with her hands on her hips, determined, looking around. Amber! Betty ran to join her.
    â€œOh, Betty,” Amber said once she noticed her. “I’ve been looking for you!”
    â€œWhere’d you go? I couldn’t find you anywhere! Why’d you run off?” Betty gasped. She wasn’t in the best of moods right now.
    â€œWell, I was anxious to find the bridge. If you want to come with me on this journey, you gotta pay attention. I thought you were going to follow me.”
    â€œWell, I didn’t see you go! You should have waited!” Betty half-whined.
    â€œSorry!” Amber said, as if that was going to make everything better.
    â€œWell?” Betty asked after a minute.
    â€œWell what?”
    â€œDid you find any information about the bridge?” “Well, I found out that we have to just keep following the path.” Amber shrugged.
    â€œThat’s it? That’s all we have to do? Where’d you find that out?”
    â€œCommoners,” Amber said, dismissing the subject with a wave of her hand. “C’mon!”
    ***
    The two girls walked on the path for quite some time. They didn’t talk to each other along the way. Both were frustrated. Amber felt like she was babysitting. Betty felt she was a burden.
    Soon, Amber and Betty reached their destination. The Broken Bridge lay ahead of them, half of it not even there and the other half, rickety and shaky, looked like it was about to collapse. Underneath the bridge lay the dark, murky depths of the Tentacle Sea. The sun had set and the hues of red, orange, and yellow made even the most horrible landscape look like a beautiful painted canvas.
    â€œCan we use the arlyers to get across?” Betty asked.
    â€œI guess we could. Good thinking, Betsy!” Amber said, smiling for the first time since they had arrived in Ridgeway.
    â€œIt’s Betty,” Betty said, now a bit calmer too.
    â€œRight, right, sorry.”
    They both clicked the arlyers open and strapped them on their backs. A few minutes later Amber and Betty were in the sky. They were soaring through the air, as free as birds. Betty smiled at Amber, and Amber, surprising herself, smiled back.
    Betty looked down. They were right above the bridge, the part where it became all crumbly and fragile. Whoever built it did not do a good job , Betty thought.
    And then it happened. Right as they crossed over the sea, there was a rapid clicking noise and both pairs of arlyers collapsed in midair. Betty shot a quick glance of fear at Amber before they plummeted toward the water, their bodies frozen in shock. The arlyers curled into balls, splashed into the water, and gently floated out of sight. Meanwhile, Betty and Amber thrashed in the air, falling faster. Betty’s heart was pounding, her adrenaline was pumping, and she thought of the times she had wished for adventure. Just before Betty’s body crashed into the sea, she thought: Adventure is scary .
    And then, she was immersed in water.
    She was drowning.
    If you’ve ever drowned, then you know what it feels like. Or maybe you don’t, because it’s much different in a book. In a book, anything could happen. You could perhaps swallow too