Melinda Thomson sighed with relief as she left her daughter's room. The child didn't know anything. That was good. It wasn't as if Whangdoodleland was bad. Not at all. But As Melinda thought this, a memory floated back to her, about the spinster cat,and her being kidnapped.

Melinda--or Lindy, as she had been called back then--had hoped to retire to her study, but her daughter's news had rattled her, and she didn't feel like concentrating on her work. Melinda opened the door to her study, and stepped in. The chair at the desk swiveled around, and Melinda jumped.

"Hello Lindy...or do you prefer Melinda Now?"

The person in the chair was none other then the person who Annyrose had talked to that morning. He also happened to be the Prime Minister of Whangdoodleland, which also happened to be a real country.

"Hello, Prock." Melinda Said, sitting in the chair on the other side of the desk. "And I Prefer Melinda now. But Lindy will do." She sighed and began talking. "You meant Annyrose today, I'll assume? She talked about you. And surely, it was you she described? Why did you tell her, Prock? She doesn't need to know about...about Any of it!" Melinda threw up her hands.

"What's wrong with her knowing about Whangedoodleland?" The Prock asked, sullenly.

"It's so dangerous! It's so-"

"Dangerous?" The Prock cut her off. "What makes it Dangerous?"

"The Train, The Gazooks, the Swamp Gaboons--"

"But they aren't dangerous."

"Yes, they are. Annyrose could get hurt."

"My, my, you have grown up, haven't you?" Prock asked, changing the conversation. He had left the chair and was reading the awards and medals framed on one of the walls of the study. "...'For Her Work in Physics'?" He read. "So you followed in the professor's footsteps, eh?" Melinda nodded. "Hmm..." The Prock Said. "Remember the Spinster Cat?"

"Yes, and that's exactly why--"

"Whangdoodleland is in danger."

"What?"

"Whangdoodleland is in Danger of extinction."

"What?"

"Whangdoodleland is in Danger of Ex-"

"How?"

"Lindy. Be Serious. How do you think?"

"People are forgetting?"

"No one knew, Lindy."

"Me, the Professor, Ben and Tom."

The Prock Sighed. "The Professor is dead, Lindy."

"I know."

"Ben is to old. You doesn't remember."

"Of course he does! He wouldn't--"

"He doesn't remember."

"Tom Does."

"Tom Remembers." The Prock nodded. "Two people."

"But--but wait. How are you going extinct if we are forgetting? You're supposed to be safe in Whangedoodleland."

The Prock sighed and returned to his chair. "What did the Professor Tell you?" The question sounded Rhetorical, So Lindy Remained silent. "Right. He would have told you that we were going extinct, so The Whangdoodle founded Whangdoodleland, and all the creatures escaped, where they would be safe forever and never go extinct."

"See. I was--"

"Until." The Prock added quietly. Lindy stopped talking. "Until man once found Whangdoodleland. And when man found Whangdoodleland, they could believe it was there. So they can believe in the creatures there. Once they forget...The Creatures go extinct."

"Unless you find another place to live."

"Unless we find another place to live." The Prock Asserted.

"And how does this have to do with Annyrose?"

"What?"

"Why did you tell Annyrose?"

"Because she is going to be the one to find The creatures of Whangdoodleland a new place."

"No!"

The Prock turned doleful eyes to Lindy. "You would risk losing all of Whangdoodleland?" Lindy looked away, ashamed. "But she's a child."

"She's Ben's Age when he went."

"So she'll have trouble going. Ben did."

"Fine. I can take her back. Besides, she has more imagination then he did."

"Why Anny?"

"You're to old to go."

"The Professor--"

"The Professor had you three to help him."

"Then Anny and I--"

"Lindy. Anny can't be kept a child forever."

Melinda sat back in her seat. "Fine. I'll...explain it to her...tomorrow."

The Prock Nodded and stood up. "Good luck. I don't think you'll need it however."

He opened the door and stopped. Without turning around, he said "Do you still have your Sympathetic Hat?"

"Yes."

"You might give that to her."

Lindy nodded, and said: "I might. Goodnight, Prock."

Prock nodded once, straightened up, and pulled down so fast that he disappeared.

Okay, second Chapter. Hope you like it. Oh, wait, forgot to say the first time: None of these characters are mine, they are all the property (with the exception of Annyrose) of Julia Andrews. All credit for inventing the characters goes to her.

Kara