When Templeton was 19, he took a bushwalk that he’d done many times, but this time deliberately strayed off the path and began walking randomly between trees, just to see where he might end up. Unexpectedly, he passed through some sort of invisible warp and ended up in a giant garden that looked out on a massive building with a sign on it that said BOOKS & TUCKSHOP. He walked a little away from the portal, and then looked back at it, and commited the location of it to memory, as it was invisible.

Then he walked back through the portal and studied the divergent path he had taken on his bushwalk, and commited that to memory too, so that he could repeat the experience any time he wanted. He looked up at the building and realised that it seemed to have been designed disproportionately.  The building was as tall as a skyscraper, and yet the door reached almost to the very top. A books and tuckshop building shouldn’t have needed a skyscraper complex to accommodate it. He walked over to the door and couldn’t see any way to open it. Then he heard a loud bell from somewhere in the distance.

Before long, he turned and saw several girls in school uniforms walking towards the building. Unlike earth school uniforms, these were in the form of long elegant dresses which reached almost down to the ankles, and looked much better in his opinion than earth school uniforms. He ducked behind a flower outside the building and watched the girls approach. Then it suddenly dawned on him that he was smaller than the flower, and as the girls drew closer, he could see that they also had a disproportionate look to them, as he was straining his neck back. He had to look upwards, to concentrate on their faces. They weren’t unattractive by any means, but since leaving school, he had found that his visual chemistry system was geared towards adult women. As the first girl came right up to the door, she unknowingly confirmed what had slowly been working its way into his mind. He only came up to the girl’s ankles, and had to conclude that the people on this side of the invisible portal were giants. Some sixteen girls opened the door and filed into the shop, chattering away happily. He waited for the last of them to go in, and then ran in behind, before the gigantic door could close.

Inside he saw several book stands close by, and food shelves and a counter on the far side of what was actually just one giant sized room. He ducked under a book stand, and peeked out for the next 50 minutes, as the girls selected their lunches and were served by a gigantic and very beautiful woman. Then another bell rang, and the last of the girls, who had subsequently turned up after his own entry, left with only a few lollies to eat before presumably returning to a giant classroom somewhere.