I literally drag Elizabeth out of the pool. She is ecstatic about everything! The trees, the water, the animals. I can’t help but feel a little impressed too, this place is beautiful!

We begin to walk around the water looking for a way out; or something to get us back up to the hole.

“Daddy, look! Horsies!” My darling Elizabeth cries

I turn my head to see two centaurs coming towards us. A boy and a girl. Before I can think of what we should do Elizabeth breaks out in a mad dash towards them waving and yelling “Over here! We’re over here!”

“Elizabeth!” I yell

But she’s beyond hearing my voice now. She’s in the crazy trance little girl’s get into when they get around horses. I break out in a mad dash to stop her. When I finally catch up to her she is already to close to the centaurs. They stop.

The centaur looks at her the way a bird would and bends down for her to get on. She does.

“Eliza! Get back here!” I scream

But Eliza seems to be in a trance.

The centaurs ride off. And I have lost my daughter.