Passphrase

“What if the Graes already took notice of us as soon as we entered their perimeter and right now, we are under a spell; making our eyes play a trick on us? What if what we are seeing right now is not real?”

“Well, if that is the case, then I guess there is only one way to check it.”

Audrey insinuated and without wasting another breath, she said the passphrase.

"Turn your back to the forest, your front to me."

Slowly, it dawned on the others as well what was possibly happening and so without waiting to be told what to do, they recited the same thing too.

"Turn your back to the forest, your front to me."

They whispered into the air one after another and almost immediately, the landscape changed into something else, right before their naked eyes.

Everyone watched with an awestruck face as the trees turned into fences. At the same time, just a few feet away from where they were standing, they noticed how an empty lot from moments ago started to morph into what seemed to be an inconspicuou