p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"Note: Some things, especially pertaining to MiM, might not make sense. If you have questions, ask in the comments. Previous chapter might also help./span/strong/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; min-height: 20.3px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"Sorry this chapter was originally just the code./span/strong/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"It was a day like most others More than half a millennium had past since Tyra had been made a spirit by MiM. In that time, she did her best to avoid her father. Most of the time that was rather easy, but there were a few close calls. She was upset at first that she couldn't speak to her father, but over time grew to accept it /spanspan class="s2"as if Man in Moon asked her to, it was important/spanspan class="s1". That being said, she was upset that her "death" caused the Dark Ages. But, she calmed down after Manny explained that the Dark Ages needed to happen. Though that didn't mean she talked to MiM for a while./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"In fact, she didn't talk to him for over a century. But then she started again, after Emily finally got fed up with it and told her to stop holding a grudge. Begrudgingly, she stopped her silence towards Manny. She was still upset though. Who wouldn't be, if it is technically their fault the world is in danger, just because she couldn't tell someone she was alive. Luckily, she was distracted a lot due to work. The world might be in mortal danger, but she still had a job to do. Admittedly, that job was harder when you had to avoid the person. Who was meanwhile tying to take over the world, but you still a job to do./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"One good thing came out of the Dark Ages. She made two new friends: Nightlight and Katherine. They met one time when Tyra was out spreading summer. That being said, it wasn't exactly the nicest of meeting, but they soon got over that. They all got along rather well, but Tyra could only see them every once in a while, their jobs keeping them all busy. Tyra either spreading summer or helping Mother Nature, and Nightlight and Katherine helping the Guardians defeat Pitch. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Of course, at the end of the Dark Ages that changed. There was a certain /spanspan class="s3" style="font-style: italic;"incident /spanspan class="s1"Katherine and Nightlight didn't quite agree with. So, during the final battle, Nightlight faked his death and left. Then, after the battle ended, Katherine left due to grief, or so the others believed. They went and lived in Mother Nature's Domain, at Emily's and Tyra's invitation. Manny was fine with that and the fact that the Guardians though Nightlight was dead, but only as long as they kept doing their jobs. MiM also didn't quite agree with the decision the Guardians had made after the incident either, though he knew it was necessary./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"So, for a century or two they kept on doing their jobs, and all was well. Then, one day when they were in the village of Hawthorne, they met a boy, Jack, who they soon became friends with. He held a strong belief, especially for his age, and they all were friends for 4 years./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"After 4 years of friendship, MiM sent Tyra to Hawthorne. Now, that would not be unusual, excepts for four things. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"One, he told her to go alone. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Two, he said there would be a new spirit that needed help. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Three, he said she could not interfere in what was to happen. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"And four, it was the dead of winter. /span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"She got there, and couldn't believe what she saw. There was Jack on the ice with his little sister, Emma. What scared Tyra is that the ice was cracking under Emma's feet, and Tyra could do nothing about it. Emma didn't believe in her, which wasn't unusual for a child of 12 in those parts. Besides, Manny said not to interfere. So it didn't really matter. She then saw Jack say something, before getting Emma to move and swinging her off the ice. Tyra thought all would be fine, before noticing that the force threw Jack back on to thinner ice. It broke under his weight. All she could do was yell his name, and, as she stood behind Emma, their eyes met for a second before he was submerged./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Why did you have me come here!" Tyra yelled at the moon./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Did you forget the second thing I told you?" Manny asked. "A new spirit will need help tonight."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""But no spirit ever died first," she responded./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""You did."/span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Wasn't that because I was the daughter of a powerful spirit?"/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Yes, that played a role, but that wasn't the only reason. It just made it easier. This will be harder. He will become a spirit, a powerful winter spirit in fact, but there will be costs. He will have no memories, and you can't tell him of the missing memories. Now, him having no memories is an accidental side effect, but the reason you can't tell him is on purpose."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Why."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""It will mess up a event that needs to happen. I don't know what event, or when, just that he can't have his memories for it to come to pass." MiM explained. "The second cost is that it will use up a lot of my magic. For a while, I will only be able to communicate to you and Nightlight. That is all my limited magic will be able to do."/span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Okay. You said he would be powerful. Like Sovereign powerful?"/span/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1""Perhaps in time. Now, as soon as my light fully hits the pond, Jack will rise. Wait a bit before approaching him, but then show him to Emily's domain. You can tell Nightlight and Katherine all I told you." Manny said, before ending communications./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"And Tyra did as MiM instructed. It pained her to see Jack like this, but knew there was nothing she could do. When she took him to the Domain, Nightlight and Katherine were at first shocked to see him, and then confused when he didn't recognize them. Tyra explained what happened, and everything Manny told her. They were upset, but accepted it./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"span class="s1"Their friendship with Jackson Overland might have ended, but their friendship with Jack Frost just begun./span/p
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p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"Notes: /span/strong/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"One thing that can be explained: Yes, Tyra has a good relationship with MiM, despite Pitch being her father. She also can talk directly to MiM, both as a spirit and before. /span/strong/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"Also MiM lied to Tyra or at least did not tell the full truth. There is a third spirit that can communicate with him while on Earth. They will come in later in this book, but they are a character in the companion book to this one./span/strong/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"Tyra only actively spreads summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and mostly in North America. Her spirits and sprites spread it elsewhere./span/strong/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"As I said prior, I apologize if any book characters are OoC, I have never read the books. /span/strong/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"strongspan class="s1"Next chapter of the arc (and the story) will be a more detailed telling of Tyra meeting Nightlight and Katherine. It should be out by the end of the weekend./span/strong/p