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On a snowy day in December, a shy and kind-hearted girl named Leah won a lottery ticket to travel to an unusual place called “The Skyland”. She was given an offer to have an exceptional kick-start in her career with a clause that she must permanently leave her hometown (Fairydom). Taking advantage of this opportunity, she decided to move to Skyland the very next year which was against the advice of her sister, Ish.

As time passed, Ish was getting an intuition that something would go wrong with the lottery visit. Ish tried to convince Leah not to visit The Skyland as she could sense that the offer was fishy, but Leah was in her dreamworld and paid no heed to her sister’s advice. On 1st January, Leah left for Skyland via flying a driverless luxurious car at 8:00 pm.

She had an amazing journey whereby she discovered the shimmering moon, twinkling stars, wavy clouds, bright fireflies, and quirky birds. She got an hour's halt in a royal star named Regulus. She was enjoying every minute of her life but at the same time, she was missing her family and wished that they would have understood her. After an hour, when she was heading towards the flying car, she discovered that the aerial car had been converted into a flying dragon.

Taking a deep breath with no option left, she held her talisman locket that was gifted by her parents and got the courage to sit on the flying dragon. To her good luck, the flying dragon was harmless, but she experienced a spooky ride with the Draco. Instead of taking Leah to the Skyland, it took her to the Witchland. Perplexed and helpless Leah fainted over the compact deck. Returning to her consciousness, Leah found herself being captured by the witches who were having their dinner ready with human flesh on the plates and bottles of blood samples.

The witches greeted her, Hezlo Leah! Today is your first and the last day in our Witchy-Witchland. We pity you and have collectively decided to offer you as a sacrifice to Medusa, who is considered the wildest witch of all. Before leaving for the dinner, they held off Leah’s hands and legs with an electric-chain and electrocuted her, and poured an itchy powder into her eyes. Amid all this, her talisman fell off which she thought was a bad omen, however, her talisman was caught by a lucky dove.

In overwhelming fear, anxiety, and agony, Leah started missing her family and regretted her decision the whole night. On the next day, Leah found herself surrounded by cannibals who were again and again chanting “Shring bring sarvaling, bhoot bhavishya vartmaan badling”, hearing this she went into an unconscious state. When Medusa entered the Gitok area (the sacrificing area of the Witchland), she was attacked by the cannibals. To safeguard Mellisa when other witches came, flying dragons dropped the poison balls on witches. In the middle of all this, Ish along with the lucky dove came to the Gitok to rescue her little sister. 

After a few minutes, Leah heard a voice- “Get up Leah, you are getting late for the office”, from her parents. Yes, you are right- she was dreaming! ;) 

At that very moment, Leah realized that no matter how much hard tiff she had with her sister, Ish was/is/will be always there to extricate her (even in her dreams). Also, she appreciated the right timings of her parents in awakening and enlightening her (not only in her dreams but also in real-life situations).

Hence, the takeaway from this story is to always listen to the advice of your loved ones. And lastly, there is no shortcut to the ladder of success- instead of taking an elevator, climb the stairs and enjoy your journey on each step.

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