Jen was terrified. She couldn't understand what was happening, and everytime she tried to explain it to herself, she thought she was crazy. Ok, I got sucked into a book. Sucked into a book? What was wrong with her?! And now I have wings. Oh yeah. That made perfect sense. My God, I must be crazy... Jen sunk down into the ground, and had put her face in her knees and her arms over her head. Did mad people feel completely lost? No, they couldn't, they didn't know they were lost did they? She knew that the thoguht was worthelss, but it comforted her. She sighed and looked up. Another scream almost burst from her, but she held it in. Her wings had enveloped her, apparently shielding her.
She calmed down her racing heart and shakily stood up, and folded her wings behind her. It was so weird having them. Well, she thought grimly, I guess new appendages take some getting used to... She looked around and spotted the group of creatures-was she a creature now?-that she assumed were the other people from the library.
She started running towards them, but a wild idea entered her head. She had wings, so could she fly? Trying couldn't hurt anything, she supposed, and let her wings unfold. She concentrated on her wings, urging them to flap. The ease with which they moved up and down surprised her, but she did not loose her concentration. She slowly began to lift from the ground. An enourmous sense of freedom and belonging filled her. She began to rise from the ground more and more quickly, until the group was a small speck on the ground.
A sudden burst of fear gripped her. What was she doing? She couldn't FLY! Her wings stopped flapping, and she began to fall. She panickedly tried to fly again, but her fear overcame her concentration. She plummeted towards the ground like a bullet. Fifty feet above the ground, her fear was evaporated by her will to live. She couldn't die, not now. Her wings began flapping again, but she was far too close to the ground to stop. She spread her wings as far as they would go and desperately tried to change directions. Seconds before she crashed, she managed to pull up. A wave of relief came over her. She slowed down and came to a landing right in front of the group.
"Hello, my name is Jen. What the hell is going on here?"