The water stung her skin, made it feel as if she would never be cool again. She lost all sense of place and time. All she could think of was the cold floor of the tunnel on her naked skin. It felt so good. Her last thought before she completely blacked out was, At least I'm not hurting anyone else now.
The next morning, in the Emerald City three good friends woke up to a sunny sky, with a slight breeze blowing the curtains on the windows in their rooms.
"Master Scarecrow, there is a visitor here to see you, Tinman, and Lion." called the housemaid, Lily.
"I'll be right there," replied the scarecrow. Shame I can't tell anyone my real name, he thought for the millionth time, it seemed, since he had been on the yellow brick road with Dorothy and company. It just gets so tiring being called 'Scarecrow'. Ah, well, I suppose it is all for the better. And with that thought, he went downstairs to greet his visitor.
When he arrived there he received one of the biggest shocks of his life, for standing there, in the entryway was none other than Glinda, his old friend from school.
"Miss Glinda!" he cried out. He realized his mistake when he saw everyone else in the room looking at him strangely. You're so stupid Fiyero , he thought, She doesn't know who you are.
"Shall we go into the sitting room and talk," asked the Tinman.
"Yes, yes, of course, I suppose that would be best," replied Glinda.
Once the four were seated, Glinda said, "I should tell you why I am here. Well, after the girl, Dorothy, went home I had these shoes." She pulled out a pair of shoes that all three friends recognized as the Wicked Witch of the East's shoes. "I need to find a safe place to keep them, where no one else can get a hold of them."
"I know of a place," said the scarecrow, surprising everyone, as far as they knew, his whole life had been spent in a cornfield.
"Where is it?" Asked the Lion.
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that, I wouldn't want anyone forcing you into revealing where they were," replied the scarecrow. "I will set out at dawn to put the shoes in their hiding place."
"Oh thank you!" cried Glinda, you don't know how much these shoes meant to Elph…I mean me.
So the plans were set, the Scarecrow would take off with the shoes at dawn.