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The toad croaks, and then hops off to another bed of moss.

“Croak!” the toad says, indicating that he wants you to follow him. At a very steady pace, he starts hopping deeper and deeper into the forest. You follow him for what seems like a long time until he leads you up to a large puddle of water, perhaps 30 feet in diameter.

There are dozens of frogs and toads jumping into this water. Your new amphibian friends seem to be having a jolly good time. Mister toad takes one giant leap into the center of the pond. He submerges below the water, but never surfaces. You wait for a minute or two, but there’s still no sign of mister toad.

You watch another frog jump into the same spot that mister toad jumped. He vanishes. Then another jumps in, and then another. The idea slowly dawns on you that there must be some sort of passage to another place at that spot.

You’re a bit hesitant at first, but then decide, “What the heck?” and jump yourself to that exact same spot. Almost instantly, your whole body is submerged. Your head is easily two feet below the surface of the water. You can see the sunlight refracting through the waves of the water. Then you feel something at your feet pulling you down. You have the feeling of falling, and it’s becoming more and more intense. Simultaneously, you begin to black out.

When you come to, you’re drenching wet, and appear to be inside of some sort of garage. Off in the corner there’s a tool table. In the other corner is a stack of newspapers about six feet high. There is a large space heater overhead.

You hear an incredible rumbling noise and look up to see where it’s coming from. The space heater overhead appears to have turned itself on of its own accord. You begin to feel wave after wave of heat. It’s getting blistering hot, almost unbearably so. The heat gets hotter and hotter until it’s almost too much to bear. Then, just as suddenly as it started, the heater turns off and the room returns to its normal temperature. You look down at yourself. The heat has managed to completely dry your clothes. You take a few moments to regain your composure, then head for the door into the house.