The next morning, Ella woke up and saw the tears in my eyes and that I'd been crying. "Later, Fire Girl," I begged.

She nodded and turned her attention back to the animals around her. "If I tell you what my dream was about, then it won't come true. After all..." she said.

Then she began singing. "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep. In dreams you lose your heartache. Whatever you wish for, you keep. Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true. A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're feeling small. Alone in the night, you whisper thinking no one can hear you at all. You wake with the morning sunlight to find fortune that is smiling on you. Don't let your heart be filled with sorrow, for all you know the dream that you wish will come true. A dream is a wish your heart makes. A dream is a wish your heart makes. You wake with the morning sunlight to find fortune that is smiling on you. Don't let your heart be filled with your sorrow for all you know tomorrow the dream that you wish will come true. No matter how your heart is grieving if you keep on believing the dream that you wish will come true."

The clock sounded and we both groaned. "Oh killjoy! I hear you! I'm up! I'm up!" she griped. "I hear you! Time to get up and start another day!"

"Even he orders me around," she complained to the birds and mice. "Well, there's one thing—they can't order me to stop dreaming and perhaps someday the dreams that I wish will come true."

Ella and I dressed and headed downstairs. As we got dressed, I returned to my mental Avox state. As we dressed, my mockingjay sang Ella's song to us. I grinned and said, "It likes your voice." Before we went downstairs, we met and freed Gus.