2nd Place in Derby #354: Double Take Derby 24, with 145 votes!

George said to his friends, "Come with me! I want to show you something! Something that can take flight and transport you to another land!"

Lucy and Marvin exchanged glances. They had fallen for this before with George. He talked a great deal about all sorts of wonderful things, but in reality, they rarely measured up. "A rare creature who descended to the earth from up high," might be a leaf. "A map leading to the world's greatest treasures," would simply be an old globe.

Still, they had nothing better to do. "Where is it?" Lucy asked.

"Up here," George said, and he bounded up the stairs to a room lined with bookshelves.

"What is this place?" Marvin asked.

"It's my own private library!" George exclaimed.

"Oh, I get it," Lucy said. "Books. Books can take flight and transport you to another land. Very clever, George. C'mon, Marvin. Let's get out of here."

And so they left, leaving George alone just as he pulled the book that was actually a secret lever that opened up the wall to reveal a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.

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