It was a typical day. I got home read some Wheel of Time, and got ready to go to work at the stables. I put some crummy jeans, rubber boots and an old T-shirt on and yelled to my mom that it was time to go. I decided to take my copy of The Shadow Rising with me incase I was waiting for my mom to come and pick me up because she was late, again.

I got to the farm, with my book in hand, and immediately went to see my favorite horse, Misty. Misty is a beautiful animal. She is a pure white, fifteen hand Arabian with a gorgeous dish shaped head. She let out a high pitched whinny when I came within view. She ran to the gate, anticipating the juicy apple or carrot with the leaves still attached (her favorite) that I brought with me everyday. Misty is a bit misunderstood. No one but me and another advanced rider rides her because she has a hot temper, but not to me. She has become my favorite horse at the barn.

I gave her the treat and she nuzzled my bag with the Wheel of Time book inside. Suddenly, we both were transported into a brutally hot land. I looked around and suddenly realized we were in the Aiel Waste. I stated walking and arrived at a dried up riverbed. Misty nudged the ground and started digging with her foot. After about a foot and six inches of digging, water poured out of the hole. She quenched her thirst and I drank some water scooping it to my mouth with the cup of my hands.

Misty was more suited to the desert then I was. Thousands of years of selective breeding in the deserts of the Middle East had made the Arabian into a horse resistant to the heat and dryness of the desert. She was already coming back to her little used instincts; she found water and was now munching on a dried up plant. I did not disturb her eating. Instead, I decided to sleep and wait for the cool nights to travel and find the Aiel.

I was soon asleep and woke up in the night because of the cold. In the books it said the nights were cold but Robert Jordan's words were an under exaggeration. It was freezing. I thought I was in the center of Antarctica. I looked around and spotted Misty. I ran to her and climbed on her back, using a rock as a mounting block. Her body was warm and it gave me enough warmth to stop from freezing. I gave her a small nudge and she was off like a bullet. We traveled all night and at daybreak I saw an Aiel city. But then I realized there were no cities in the Waste except for Rhuidean. I had arrived at a great city in the Wheel of Time World.