It was... quiet. Almsot too quiet. If felt nice.

Dixie slowly opened her eyes, taking in her surroundings. She was in a bed somewhere, that muchwas certain just by the feel of things underneath her. The room itself seemed oddly familiar, almost as if she had been in the room before.

Memories of the times before she and Tiny came to Kongo Bongo came back to her. Of course. The room she was in had been her bedroom in their mother's house.

It was then that the events with the Lombado came back to her. She could not hold back the crescendoing sob that came out, tears filling out and falling faster than she could comprehend the fact they were happening. She heard voices, one that sounded like Diddy's and another that sounded comforting, like having your favorite food and dessert after a bad day.

"Dixie?" the latter voice asked. She wiped her eyes and was greeted with her mother's face, obviously alive and well.

"Mama!" she shouted, almost lurching out of the bed. Lily was very unprepared for the hug she was given, nearly sending both of them to the floor.

"Dix! You're OK!" Diddy said from somewhere near them.

"We were worried," DK said, appearing as well. "Even Cranky was."

Dixie was too preoccupied by the fact her mother was all right to even care to consider the two males in the room.

"Diddy and the others told me what happened," Lily murmured, frowning. "I'm all right though. See? You couldn't be hugging me if i was gone. Those bastards didn't get to me."