. .the Eastern sky lightened. . .but the sun would
not appear for more than an hour. . .it was the aurora borealis, or
the northern lights, that were lighting up the sky, and which, even
more than the Wonderlanders had planned, made their illusion a very
much greater success than they had planned.
From inside the shade grove of their practice pond, the sky was not
terribly visible, even in the daytime, so it is not hard to realize
how much the northern lights looked brighter than the darkness of a
grove of trees.
By the time the sun really did come up the pond had totally melted.
And the illusion was complete. . .where there had been ice skating,
now was a lake. . .the lake they now call Lake Dimbovitsa. . .after
the last of the Wonderlanders who skated their that night.
***
So many people came and went in so many directions that night and a
period of the first few hours of the following morning, that it was
impossible to follow any tracks a week later, when people began the
realization that the Wonderlanders were not coming back.
Lots of things were done to find them, but nearly all had been well
prepared for, and the addition of spring rains, a quick thaw, a lot
of mud travelled by a lot of people, made it even more impossible a
task to find someone who had already gone to great pains not to be.
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