That the magical realm was far more real than it had been in her children's books of fairies, giants, princesses and witches realized Meredith in her teenage years. It was only then that she didn't think off the good looking guy following her as her imagination. Whenever he appeared, he gave her a lotus, saying that it was the only flower growing in the mud and "the thicker the mud, the more beautiful is it going to be." Upon her question who he was and why he was there, she never received an answer. However when she turned sixteen ..Public Domain