Where was this place? This wasn’t Wonderland --

 Had she lost Sean, her only way back home? 

The unsuspecting travelers hadn’t been expecting the storm when they arrived through the mirror, the strong billow of wind had been carried with a down pour of rain torrential enough to fling Sean back into the mirror, and Layla into the sand just as the mirror had disappeared with Sean all in a blink of the eye.

  And Layla had heard it, the sound of a giant wave behind her, there was no time. No time to run, no time to escape as the wave started to come down on top of her ---