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Danielle scanned the room, taking in her surroundings.  "Ben," she hissed, trying to find where her brother was.  She guessed he wasn't in this chamber; but in another one.  She started to get up, but stepped on something really sharp.  "Ow!" she yelped, then clapped a hand over her mouth.  She needed to stay quiet and focus. Quietly, she crept through the metal chamber, passing mounds of computers, technology and turned-off or broken robots.  When she reached a door, she tugged on the handle, but it was locked from behind.  She cursed and began to search for something to pry the door open with.
As she was walking she bumped into a large case.  Just then, a little girl emerged from the shadows, holding a crowbar.  "Who's there?  You can't take me!" she cried, aimlessly swinging it back and forth.  She's got good strength for a child, Danielle thought.  "It's okay!" she said, and stooped down on one knee.  The girl stopped swinging the crowbar, but stepped back a little.  "Who are you?" she asked.  "I'm Danielle."  The girl looked like she didn't believe her.  "Then why are you in here?  The… the monsters will get you, too."  Danielle shook her head.  "There aren't any monsters here.  See?"  She took out a little flashlight from her pocket and flashed it around the room.  "They're only tiny robots."  Finally she held it up to her face so the girl could see she wasn't about to eat her.  "I-I'm Lila."  The girl said.  "Where am I?"
Danielle frowned.  "I wish I knew.  Portals can travel just about anywhere they want to nowadays.  Lila tilted her head.  "Huh?  What's a p-portal?"  Danielle leaned back.  It was really just her luck to have to explain that some people were born with a special ability to teleport themselves to different parts of the world.  The portals came from your conscience.  If you felt like you were under a lot of stress or in danger, they would take you somewhere else.  Sometimes really bad things happened in the places you'd be taken, though. They'd be in the realms of Jantalin- a secret realm in the center of the Earth filled with all kinds of different places.  Most of the time you would find yourself in there with about 20 other people.  If there was a war between the humans and monsters, though, there would be a war.  That had failed to happen in the last 500 years, however.  Sometimes portals could be helpful, but the thing was you couldn't really help disappearing to somewhere else until you were fourteen and your mind was big enough to control it.  Lila only looked about six or seven.  She'd have a long wait.
"We'll have to go to the chancellor," she decided.  "Come on, Lila.  I'll get you there.  But first-" she glanced at the locked door.  "Can I borrow that crowbar?"