Entry for G&S Hard Science Contest: An exploration of how magic could be explained by science in a world where witches, wizards, and dragons not only exist, but thrive. Science-based chapters interspersed with world-based stories.
A child slips through a portal into the land of the Fae and traverses the Otherworld with the help of a young elf, while her parents are left to deal with the changeling that was left in her place.