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The Pitch has a cunning. All sly and slippery, he is a-oozing into dreams and cracks and all manner of shadow-stuff to find all of the night-mares and the bad dreams and the fearing. And the Pitch is smart. Smarter than you think, and he has a knowing that gets into things and he turns them against you as easy as sleeping.
The Pitch, he gets into things, and he doesn't forget them quick. He remembers them. Remembers when the Nightlight-Boy and the Shooting-Star-Captain snuck about in the Tanglewoods. Remembers when the pitch-black stone turned dreams to nightmare men, all ragged and rasping.
And The Pitch, he's a-learning, too. He's a-remembering the first spell, about the Believing, and what it can do. He's a-thinking about how he can use it (and he's a-remembering all those wizardly things he read in those big books so long ago, too.)
So The Pitch, he knows what he's a-planning. Knows that if he wants to win, the Believing has to go.
And for all of their fierce, the Guardians are not quite so fiercely now as they were once ago.
And the Pitch's plan is cunning. Christmas-time is not time yet. And Easter is an almost. And dreams might not be noticed quite-as-quickly. But no Tooth-Fairy-Queen is a very big right-now.
So he needs to be attacking the fiercely fairy folk first.
The dreaming needs to be next. Without the fairy folk, the dreams are a bit a-fearing.
But The Pitch, he's not expecting the Jack-boy.
Not expecting him all small and fiercely and there. But he's cunning, the Pitch. And he figures out quick what the Jack-boy wants.
But the Jack-boy, there is something's he's got that the Pitch doesn't see coming. When dreams are all a-turned to night-mares, and all things are sadly, and the Pitch is sending out his night-mares, it happens.
The Jack-boy, he glows. Night-Light-Bright and all a trembling, he glows. And his staff, it's a-glowing too, bright like daytime, and all a-crackle with ice.
Maybe the Pitch, he figures it out. But even if he doesn't, the Jack-boy, he'll fight back. Bright as day.
I've been wanting to do the movie scene where Sandy "dies" and Jack goes all glowy for a while now. Never could quite get the tone right. I've written this scene from the perspective of the moonbeams (if you recall the moon was full and bright.).
That sequence has a couple of interesting moments in it. First of all, when Jack and Pitch are talking on the roof, there's a side shot of them where Jack is at a lower elevation than Pitch, that is reminiscent of the scene in "The Man in the Moon" where the Lunaoffs are confronting Pitch. (pages 12 and 13, for those interested.) Secondly is the sequence where Jack is fighting off against the Nightmares, and starts to glow. Right after Jack "explodes", there's brief reaction shot of Pitch, looking like he's just realized something. Although my headcanon is that Pitch figured things out, it's hard to tell, and we have no official word on whether or not Pitch realized who Jack used to be.
And a quick question for everyone: What has been your favourite chapter so far, and why?
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