The colors blazed with the intensity of an inferno but there wasn't the accompanying heat one would expect.

It was cool and inviting inside although the place was glazed in a rainbow spectrum that was breathtakingly beautiful.

Melanie would feel herself losing her breath inside the image of her fabulous dream from the tremendous burst of color.

She peered intently into the blazing color. Slowly it began to ebb away and a gap sprung up and pushed the colors to the side.

It was a huge, round circular gap whose circumference was defined by the bevy of fiery color encircling it.

Without having to shake his reins, Lightning began to make his way toward the celestial opening.

As they plodded closer to the magnificent abyss, Melanie could make out a design forming in its center.

The design began to take a definite shape and before long it possessed a definite substance. There was something there.

As they approached the mirage the colors began to fade away. But there was still the aura of the rainbow present.

It was just that her perspective had changed. They were now inside the magnificent bubble that had opened before them. The structure that had formed itself in front of their eyes was clearly visible. It was a large circular platform.

It was spinning on its axis. The closer she and Lightning came toward it the faster it would spin.

It began to make her dizzy. She wanted to take her eyes off it to stop the feeling of vertigo pulsing through her.

But no matter how hard she tried to turn her gaze from it she just could not do it, and Lightning kept moving inexorably forward.

She pulled on the reins to stop his forward movement. But for the first time in her life he would not heed her command.

She did not want to pull too hard and force the bit into his mouth. She never had to do that and she didn't want to do it now.