Elves, elegant and timelessly attractive if a bit bishonen in the males.
Insectile beings living besides furred humanoids.
Vaulted corridors of alabaster. A dragon driven to tears. A bustling marketplace with signs that scrolled through dozens of languages.
Living trees. Faerie folk. Transformation magic.
The track that Citadel Kirby was to slowly follow, circling the globe as it followed the coastlines and swept across the seas.
There were many who disbelieved the whole thing, and some who offered mundane explanations involving major conspiracies and others who talked about a new viral strain causing hallucinations resulting in the creation of this scenario.
Others saw and others believed.
Maybe in part it was hope. Hope that such a place could exist, where magic and dreams could come true. A glittering shining hope that wasn't dirtied and besmirched by the rigors of everyday existence. Those who had romance or a love of fantasy looked at the pictures and sighed longingly at what they depicted.
Others that believed looked at it and wondered what dirty secrets they were hiding. What evils did they perpetuate? What graft and corruption were waiting like some pus-filled boil to spew the disgusting contents over those too-white hallways?
Others believed and began trying to work out the mathematics of this thing called 'magic' - hoping to quantify and demystify the process and bring it into a proper science.
In the meantime the possession of the golden tickets was discovered and those possessors became news of their own.
A girl named Yuka in Nerima district of Japan. Everyone expected her to be violent but she merely came across as shy to the reporters.
Ryoko Mitsurugi of a school in Japan known for violence. She was exactly what everyone expected when a reporter asked her for her sizes on live TV.
Yoriko Nikaidou was another thing altogether. A somewhat ditzy, somewhat gossipy, policewoman?! At twenty two she was the oldest of the Japanese girls who had gotten her hands on a ticket.
She wasn't the oldest girl to get a ticket though and there were many other countries where some young lady had found herself holding a ticket through some method or other.
One even claimed to have found the ticket inside the wrapper of a bar of candy, as ridiculous as that sounded.
More to the point, the next girl to come forward with mixed feelings and a lucky ticket was:
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