Me: Hmm, I did a song for my sokeefe fluff, what should I do for my return to wanderling?

GT: I dunno.

Me: GT, your name just gave me an idea!

GT: This can't be good.

Me: I'll make a KOTLC video game!

GT: I don't even know how you drew that conclusion. Besides, this is a book.

Me: Good point. Another song it is!

GT: Wait a second, why don't you make this a contest for an new song!

Me: That's genius! I'll just put up some song ideas I had but was too lazy to act on!

Here are your choices!

1. Another one writes the fluff(Another one bites the dust)

Sample lyrics: (dun dun dun) Another one writes the fluff.

2. Wannabe(Wannabe)(this is obviously sung by sophie)

Sample lyrics: If you want to be my lover, you gotta go through some pain.

3. Lost Cities(Old Town Road)

Sample lyrics: Yeah, I'm going to take my gun to the lost cities, and I'm gonna fire till the neverseen are no more.

4. Everybody's falling in love again.

In the lost cities tonight, Sophie's going to have a breakup again(breakup again-gain)

Guys, there's really nothing I can say but- thank you. Everybody here gave me so much support during this hard time and Abubble124 pm'ed me, and all your well wishes were the driving force when I was writing this chapter. So thank you guys all so much. It really helped.

I have a bunch of announcements to make, (and I didn't release them with the sokeefe fluff because I like to use wanderling for my main channel of announcements, but I should get comments out of the way first.

Actually one announcement before.

So, I published wanderling on the KOTLC wiki fanfic forums, simply to see if people there would like it. They loved it, and I've been posting chapters there. Although, believe me, usually they will always be published here first.

Abubble124: So, yes. I learned that I'm usually correct the hard way when I proved some of my more, well, traumatizing theories. There's a reason I don't reveal them to the public. Better someone get angry at shannon for ruining their life than me. Thank you for your condolences. I took my time writing this, believe me. My sci-fi? Well, actually, why not tell you guys now? So, a close member of my family(I can't tell you who they are or how they are related to me, because then if someone did a google or two they would be able to figure out who I am[I'm looking at you ArrowOfTheMoonlark]it's in the parent-grandparent-uncle-range), who had written two bestselling books (maybe more), read my preface, I explained the plot ot them, and they loved it. Anyways, they were able to get me an agent if I finish and decide to publish it. Wow, that's a long response.

DaSnowLeopard: Yeah, you'll get that info, but not for a while. I'm glad that you like my work! Don't worry, I'll keep posting it on the wiki.

A very obsessed fangirl: Thank you. Mostly 99.99999999999% of what I write on here is a joke or GT but the other percent is Arnold Schwarzenegger level seriousness.

SoKeefeTeamFosterKeefe(I'm just going to use your first comment): Thank you. That means a lot. Cliffhangers are a way of life for my story. They are amazing if you write them. (not if you don't). Still deciding. I came up with some pretty crazy names, although I'm not sure about any of them. YES! Since you asked, you automatically get moved to the top! (Asking is the #1 way to get higher.) Just PM me a record of what happened in about a week, or ASAP.

ArrowOfTheMoonlark: No idea what you mean about a new subscriber. Maybe you're talking about cliffy? The sokeefe fluff is out, and it's fluffy! (I think). Thank you for the mallowmelt and the virtual hugs.

Update times will be random and stuff! Oh, I'm also doing this really fun roleplay on the KOTLC wiki, where it's ww3 between elves, humans, and other groups. It's fun. It's hosted by one of the only other KOTLC fanboys out there that has an online presence. So if you are extremely desperate for more of my funny fanfics, you can read them. (I'm King Dimitar, king of the ogres. He likes cookies. It's fun.)

Now, on with the story!

Eleven

Sophie was starting to get nauseous.

The constant changing of dreams could do that to someone.

For the longest time, she was stone cold. Dead. Her mind was blank, shut down, and fried. Then, the red light came.

It came in swirls, loops, like it was alive. It filled the empty void in her heart and mind, and it took control.

She was now in a meadow. She saw Dex on the other side of the clearing. He had a bag of wanderling seeds slung over his shoulder, and he planted them in rows. He looked up and saw her. He looked surprised, although at the moment, Sophie could think of no reason why he would be.

"Sophie? What are you doing here?"

Then the dream changed. She was now in the chamber Jensi had described to her. It glistened, and there was a figure, concealed in red light. When she walked towards them, they vanished, leaving a black hole that sucked her into the next dream.

She now found herself in her bedroom at her old house, before all of this had started. She walked out, and ran into Amy. She squinted at her.

"You're not supposed to be here."

Then Sophie found herself being lifted high into air. She then walked across the sky, watching airplanes, birds, and- a black swan?

The swan approached her, and said the same thing.

"You're not supposed to be here yet, little moonlark. Go back to the nest."

She then climbed onto the swan, and it carried her to a place she'd never seen before. It looked like a lab. The swan dropped her off, and flew away.

Sophie then realized where she was. Mr. Forkle approached her, and didn't look surprised.

"Good. You're here. Let's proceed."

She found herself flipping switches on an odd-looking machine. She didn't have any control over what she was doing. The machine started to heat up, and glow. It then imploded on itself, and everything went dark.

"Sophie! Sophie! Wake up!"

"Grady, more yelling won't help."

"What else can we do?"

"I don't know."

"I'm picking up a signal!"

"Fitz, that's what you said before!"

"Dex, I get it, but I think this is it!"

"At least let me-"

"No. You fully know that you're not-"

"I'm picking up thoughts! She can hear us! SHE CAN HEAR US!"

"Wake up, Sophie! It's Edaline!"

"Oh, so now we can yell."

Sophie's eyes opened, slowly, to the much relieved faces of her parents. She was immediately crushed a bear hug.

"Sophie!"

"Grady, you're going to crack her ribs!"

Sophie really didn't mind. She yawned, and saw Fitz and Dex looking quite dazed, most likely pushed out of the way by her parents.

She tried to muster a smile. "So, what did I miss?"

Grady explained it to her. "Jensi was shouting for help when he found you like this. A few minutes after, his potion ran out, and his injuries came back, so we had to drag both of you here." He gestured towards Jensi, who was asleep in the cot next to hers.

"You were literally dead. Your heart had stopped beating, brain stopped responding, it scared us to death. Then, after fifteen stressful minutes, you suddenly started breathing again, but still asleep. We've been here for the past day. Could you try to explain to us what happened?"

Sophie didn't know how to explain it in a way that didn't make her seem crazy. "Actually, you might want to contact Lord Cassius. He can probably explain it better than me."

"Fascinating." he mumbled under his breath. "The emotional center actually has control over the heart?"

"Apparently."

"Well, there's really no way to prevent this from happening again. I suspected as much when I saw you were in the coma, but I wasn't sure until now."

Sophie sighed. She'd been holding out hope that Keefe was somehow awake, but this explained why she thought she saw. Him and his father did look alike.

"So, I just have to hope that it doesn't happen again?"

"I'm afraid so."

With these final words of confirmation, the hope in everybody in the room seemed to vanish immediately. Fitz looked like he was going to cry.

Elwin looked defeated as well. "I suppose for once, Ms. Foster, there's nothing I can do."

First her heart and her mind speaking to her, then the red light and Caravel, then the spy, and now this. At some point she was pretty sure life was going to run out of them and just give her pieces of paper with the words "Unsolvable Mystery" written on them.

She stood up, and Fitz, after looking carefully to see that the boy-bat was not present, ran up and gave her a hug. He whispered to her. "Don't ever scare me like that again, alright?"

"I'll try not to."

"You know, Keefe isn't here, which means we finally won't be interrupted if we k-"

But Keefe still had a presence in the room, as demonstrated when Fitz was interrupted by his foot slipping on Keefe' drool puddle, which had grown quite large. He fell face first on the floor, and started to slide down the hall. It looked like he was a giant snail, crusing down the hall, and ended up at Keefe's locker, which proceeded to open up, and splatter him in semi-melted E.L. Fudges.

Sophie and Dex tried to hold in their laughter, but they just couldn't keep it in.

Now, Fitz looked like a chocolate-covered beet-red giant snail.

Sophie walked over to him. "Don't worry, for the record, you pull off the giant snail look quite well." Not knowing what had come over her, she kissed him o the cheek.

Fitz was so surprised, he passed out right there on the spot.

As Elwin and Grady picked Fitz up, and hauled him back to Elwin's office, Sophie walked towards the leapmaster, for what seemed like the hundredth time this week. But then she realized something. Dex's leaping crystal was still on the table. "Where's Dex?"

Cliffhangers. yay.

I EAT CINNAMON ROLLS!

Nonsense! Yay!