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div style="line-height: 1.7em; text-align: center;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 13pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #000000;"❅/span/spanspan style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"( Cyndra's POV )/spanspan style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;"❅/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 9pt;"A distant sound disturbed the silence of the room, loud enough to wake me. I stared at the ceiling a moment, listening, before looking around the room I found myself in. I was once again tucked into a bed and moonlight danced through the windows that were located in a few places around the room. A small sigh escaped my lips as I discovered that I must still be in the pole. Jack was in a bed not far from mine and it looked like Bunny was acting as a guard. He was standing against the door frame, holding a boomerang. I chuckled slightly, finding it almost amusing that this fierce creature was the Easter style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny turned his head to look at me, clearly not expecting me to be awake. I was curious myself as to why I was awake, until I noticed something odd. The moonlight shining on me was brighter that the rest of the room, and itched like when new skin grows over a scratch of wound. I studied it longer before I noticed that was exactly what was happening... My skin was no longer red, or even pink, in fact it was paler than style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"W-what...?" I whispered in both fear and awe. I ran a hand over the moonbeams and they moved... they moved and they flew away, out the window that they must have entered the room from. A smile covered my face as Bunny came style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"Cyndra?" Bunny asked, confusion spreading over his face. I watched him with even more curious eyes. He seemed surprised and almost awed by what he had style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Jack stirred just then, blinking his way into consciousness. I watched him before a bright light caught my eye. It was a moonbeam from earlier, a little stringy thing if you ask me, and it was flying around the room, obviously waiting for something. Jack immediately noticed it too. He stared at it with curious electric blue eyes until it did something none of us expected. It flew back to me, circling me twice before flying away once more, a trail of beautiful silver light following style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I watched it go even as I felt the eyes of Jack and Bunny on me. I felt my smile grow as I felt the warmth that came with the moonbeams. They belonged to the moon, something that had always given me comfort when I needed it. I turned back to the two, wondering what the sound had been earlier, the one that had woken me, when a darkness overcame the room, darkening the corners and pulling down the shades to the windows. There was no light except... the light that seemed to surround me. It was silver, and you would never notice unless there was no other light to compare it to. I could just make out Jack and Bunny in the little light that I had. But I could tell that there was much more about what was happening that they were not telling me. My eyes widened and I reached for Jack, the only one I was sure I could count on. I grabbed his hand as my fear seemed to grow stronger. I could feel something lurking in these shadows, in this darkness; maybe two style="line-height: 1.7em;" /A laugh echoed around us, followed by another. I moved closer to Jack, looking at him with fear in my eyes. The second laugh was Autumna's. He gripped my hand tighter as first one figure then another appeared. Autumna's small form and a tall man with glowing eyes that seemed almost a sinister style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I could hear Bunny yelling something, but the fear emanating from the man was almost too much. The darkness felt like a cage, it felt like it was closing in, suffocating. I pulled myself closer to Jack and the whole room went dark before a bright silver light drove the shadows back. One of the shades on the windows flew up and the light of the moon fought against the moving shadows, battered them away and the light seemed to want to protect. The shadows hissed as they came into contact with the moonlight. The man growled before running over and shutting the blind, thinking that would stop the light. But it didn't. The light gathered around me, building until it exploded away from me. Autumna and the man quickly backed away, covering their faces as they dashed back into what was left of the shadows and disappeared taking the rest of the shadows with style="line-height: 1.7em;" /And the world spun until there was only blackness and the sound of rushing feet before even those faded to nothing./spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" / hr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /
p style="line-height: 1.7em;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 9pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"( Jack's POV )/span/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I felt Cyndra's hand tighten against my own as she moved closer to me. She was emitting a silver light I had never seen before and she was shaking like a leaf, staring at Pitch. I could hear Bunnymund calling for us, but the living shadows kept us style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I held her close even as the light surrounding Cyndra flickered before going out when the shade on a window not far from us flew up, allowing moonlight into the room. Moonbeams and the light itself combated against the shadows, forcing them back, some of the shadows disintegrated on contact with small hisses. Pitch growled and moved toward the shade pulling it down. But the moon light stayed fighting the shadows. Pitch watched in bewilderment with the rest of us as the light encompassed Cyndra and then shot away lighting the room so brightly that even I had to cover my eyes. I felt the presence of the shadows diminish and then the light disappeared leaving the room back to its original state, with even the window shades open allowing in moonlight. Pitch and Autumna were style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Cyndra swayed beside me before I heard the pounding footsteps of North and the others. She leaned heavily toward me and I caught her, making note of the fully healed burns and scarred over gashes. I held her as Bunny stared at me, eyes wide. The pounding steps increased in volume until North threw open the door, a saber in each of his hands. I watched as he stared at the empty room in confusion. Sandy and Tooth were behind him as they all entered the room staring at Cyndra, who was asleep in my style="line-height: 1.7em;" /North was the first to speak. "Manny said... There was trouble... What happened?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Tooth nodded even as Sandy stepped closer. They all wanted to know, all looked at style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I sighed. "Pitch is her ally. They were here... but..." I didn't know what to say. Cyndra was a mortal girl... shouldn't have been capable of ... that...br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny finished for me. "The little sheila is in more peril than we had thought. She has been chosen by the moon. She is the Moon Princess..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Tooth raised a hand to her mouth in shock. Sandy lowered his head. North shook in a combination of anger and excitement. Bunny was just staring at her... But I didn't even know what that style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"...Moon Princess?" I asked glancing down at her before looking at the style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy just shook his head and walked forward as made a few images that I understood. A girl, a bed, and then a dream cloud. I sighed and placed Cyndra back in the bed she had been sleeping in earlier and Sandy fed a line of dream sand to her, but as they got near to her, the sand turned black. I frowned and looked at style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"What...?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy made more images that North had to translate for style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"He said that Pitch is purposefully coming after her. He wants to get to you, but did not realize the amount of strength that Cyndra has, even as human child. He will get back soon."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I glanced at Cyndra, who looked like she was sleeping peacefully, but was style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I still didn't know what the others meant about a moon princess, but surely that didn't mean that made she any less safe if she had five guardians watching over style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny moved over to Sandy's side. "Frostbite, You don't know who the Moon Princess is? Surely you have heard stories... It is supposed to be a myth... "br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head. I had no clue what that meant. "I've never heard anything about her..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny frowned. "There was once a really old myth... no one knows how it came to be, but it was a story."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /He started the style="line-height: 1.7em;" /em style="line-height: 1.7em;""There once was a village on the line where a lake met a mountain forest. The lake was the clearest of lakes, a deep blue that lightened as you reached the shores, and the forest was as old as the mountains themselves. The trees were tall and the brush was thick. In the village, there was a man who bartered goods for food to feed his family. He sold tanned hides and hand-sewn clothing. And each day he would return home with a loaf of bread and a basket that held vegetables and meat. He had a bright smile and bright eyes. His wife and two children, a boy and a girl, would always greet him with a hug, and thought it a blessing for his safe return. He would hug each of them and ten turn to the fire to cook the food for his family. His daughter was a smart child. She was nine winters and she loved the snow, especially at night when the moonlight would reflect off of the snow. And she knew her father worked very hard to feed them, and decided that after they ate, she would take him outside to see the moons reflection off of the snow. She waited, and as she ate, she planned. She wanted her father to be happy. When the bowls were cleared away, she grabbed her father's hand and pulled him outside. A smile covered his face when he saw it, except, something seemed of. His daughter was laughing but she was running around and as he watched her, he noticed that the light of the moon seemed to be brighter when it was on her. He frowned when he saw that and drug her crying back into the house, hoping no one had seen. They would kill her if she was caught like that, they would say she used magic. That she was evil. So he decided he had to protect her. She was not allowed to play in the snow once the sun style="line-height: 1.7em;" /But the girl was stubborn, and the moon was a comfort. She snuck out of the small window in her room to play in the snow one night. And someone had seen her as she glowed in the light of the moon. She was unaware of that when she crawled back in through her window. She didn't know that she would glow in the light of the style="line-height: 1.7em;" /That same night she woke to the smell of smoke in the house, and the sight of fire in her room. She panicked, wanting away, knowing that the fire meant death, but it was all around her. She didn't know that the light of the moon was streaming in through her window to protect her and her family. It burst away from her, blowing the fire out in a shock wave of light. The girl stared at the now singed walls before rushing towards the rest of her family, to find them safe. She sighed as she watched over them that night making sure that they were kept safe from the angry villagers who would threaten them again if they knew the fire had not killed them. When her family woke she told them of the fire and of the mysterious light that had issued from her body when she had become scared for herself and her family. They watched her carefully before taking with them what they could and setting fire to the house. The stayed in the woods for many moons before a similar occurrence happened... Only this time the child was too late to save her family from the fire that was consuming that part of the forest. She was left alone and she grew to be fourteen summers when she grappled a bear that had decided she was too close to her cubs. She lost her battle, only to find herself whole on the side of the lake she had grown up next to. She frowned as she walked through the village and no one seemed to notice her, but she protected them from anything that could harm them. She kept them safe, unknowing that they had tried to kill her once before. When she found out... The village was left to despair. Their crops would not grow. The ones who had tried to kill her were becoming sick, some even died. But their children were fine, too young to be touched by the parents hatred, or thought fondly of her style="line-height: 1.7em;" /She was powerful. It was said that she was as powerful as the man in the moon and was able to harness that power to her will. She was a steadfast companion to any who treated her well, and an unwanted enemy to those who didn't. She was a guardian angle to the children of earth, including the spirits, whom she could see since birth as a human. She had always comforted them and showed them the way as best she could."/embr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head, trying to process what Bunny was telling me. A put a hand against my head. "So... what you are saying is that the moon chose her for a life like this, but told her nothing of it?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /North nodded. "Is not bad. She would not have understood if she had been told sooner."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head, trying to clear it. "So that's why she could see me, regardless of her age and belief..." I glanced to wards her. She was starting to become restless as the nightmares took a stronger hold. I moved closer and sat next to her, placing an arm over her and grabbing her hand. The struggles stopped. And a small smile crept across her face in her sleep. I ran a hand through her hair. It was slightly tangled from everything that had happened, but she leaned into the touch, unaware of it as she slept. I style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy's eyes crinkled and a question mark appeared over his style="line-height: 1.7em;"
/North voiced the question for him. "Why does she not trust Sandy's dream sand to help her? He is supposed to be giving good dreams, yes?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /My smile shrunk slightly. "She believes in you, knows you to be the heroes she knew when she was a child, but she doesn't trust you. She isn't sure if she can."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Tooth responded first. "But she trusts you, Jack, doesn't she?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head. "I think so. But I'm not sure she should..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny heard the extra tones in my voice and his ears lowered. "Jack, mate, it wasn't your fault she got hurt. You couldn't have stopped it from happening. We would have taken you from her by force if you had not have showed up. And probably kept you from her to boot. You can't blame yourself. You know she would have a fit if she found that you still did."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I looked at her. "I know..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy looked at North before signing that he needed to give good dreams to children from inside the globe room, which had a place where his dream sand could leave. Tooth followed suit and then was flocked by all of her baby teeth who were waiting for the orders she would give. North watched me for a moment before saying something about Christmas rush and yetis. Bunny stayed and shut the door once more. Now more of a guard than ever. I continued to run a hand through her hair as I watched her sleep. It would be a while before she woke once more./span/p
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div style="line-height: 1.7em; text-align: center;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 13pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #000000;"❅/span/spanspan style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"( Cyndra's POV )/spanspan style="line-height: 1.7em; color: #000000; font-size: 16px;"❅/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 9pt;"A distant sound disturbed the silence of the room, loud enough to wake me. I stared at the ceiling a moment, listening, before looking around the room I found myself in. I was once again tucked into a bed and moonlight danced through the windows that were located in a few places around the room. A small sigh escaped my lips as I discovered that I must still be in the pole. Jack was in a bed not far from mine and it looked like Bunny was acting as a guard. He was standing against the door frame, holding a boomerang. I chuckled slightly, finding it almost amusing that this fierce creature was the Easter style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny turned his head to look at me, clearly not expecting me to be awake. I was curious myself as to why I was awake, until I noticed something odd. The moonlight shining on me was brighter that the rest of the room, and itched like when new skin grows over a scratch of wound. I studied it longer before I noticed that was exactly what was happening... My skin was no longer red, or even pink, in fact it was paler than style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"W-what...?" I whispered in both fear and awe. I ran a hand over the moonbeams and they moved... they moved and they flew away, out the window that they must have entered the room from. A smile covered my face as Bunny came style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"Cyndra?" Bunny asked, confusion spreading over his face. I watched him with even more curious eyes. He seemed surprised and almost awed by what he had style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Jack stirred just then, blinking his way into consciousness. I watched him before a bright light caught my eye. It was a moonbeam from earlier, a little stringy thing if you ask me, and it was flying around the room, obviously waiting for something. Jack immediately noticed it too. He stared at it with curious electric blue eyes until it did something none of us expected. It flew back to me, circling me twice before flying away once more, a trail of beautiful silver light following style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I watched it go even as I felt the eyes of Jack and Bunny on me. I felt my smile grow as I felt the warmth that came with the moonbeams. They belonged to the moon, something that had always given me comfort when I needed it. I turned back to the two, wondering what the sound had been earlier, the one that had woken me, when a darkness overcame the room, darkening the corners and pulling down the shades to the windows. There was no light except... the light that seemed to surround me. It was silver, and you would never notice unless there was no other light to compare it to. I could just make out Jack and Bunny in the little light that I had. But I could tell that there was much more about what was happening that they were not telling me. My eyes widened and I reached for Jack, the only one I was sure I could count on. I grabbed his hand as my fear seemed to grow stronger. I could feel something lurking in these shadows, in this darkness; maybe two style="line-height: 1.7em;" /A laugh echoed around us, followed by another. I moved closer to Jack, looking at him with fear in my eyes. The second laugh was Autumna's. He gripped my hand tighter as first one figure then another appeared. Autumna's small form and a tall man with glowing eyes that seemed almost a sinister style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I could hear Bunny yelling something, but the fear emanating from the man was almost too much. The darkness felt like a cage, it felt like it was closing in, suffocating. I pulled myself closer to Jack and the whole room went dark before a bright silver light drove the shadows back. One of the shades on the windows flew up and the light of the moon fought against the moving shadows, battered them away and the light seemed to want to protect. The shadows hissed as they came into contact with the moonlight. The man growled before running over and shutting the blind, thinking that would stop the light. But it didn't. The light gathered around me, building until it exploded away from me. Autumna and the man quickly backed away, covering their faces as they dashed back into what was left of the shadows and disappeared taking the rest of the shadows with style="line-height: 1.7em;" /And the world spun until there was only blackness and the sound of rushing feet before even those faded to nothing./spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" / hr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /
p style="line-height: 1.7em;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 9pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-size: 12pt;"span style="line-height: 1.7em; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"( Jack's POV )/span/spanbr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I felt Cyndra's hand tighten against my own as she moved closer to me. She was emitting a silver light I had never seen before and she was shaking like a leaf, staring at Pitch. I could hear Bunnymund calling for us, but the living shadows kept us style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I held her close even as the light surrounding Cyndra flickered before going out when the shade on a window not far from us flew up, allowing moonlight into the room. Moonbeams and the light itself combated against the shadows, forcing them back, some of the shadows disintegrated on contact with small hisses. Pitch growled and moved toward the shade pulling it down. But the moon light stayed fighting the shadows. Pitch watched in bewilderment with the rest of us as the light encompassed Cyndra and then shot away lighting the room so brightly that even I had to cover my eyes. I felt the presence of the shadows diminish and then the light disappeared leaving the room back to its original state, with even the window shades open allowing in moonlight. Pitch and Autumna were style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Cyndra swayed beside me before I heard the pounding footsteps of North and the others. She leaned heavily toward me and I caught her, making note of the fully healed burns and scarred over gashes. I held her as Bunny stared at me, eyes wide. The pounding steps increased in volume until North threw open the door, a saber in each of his hands. I watched as he stared at the empty room in confusion. Sandy and Tooth were behind him as they all entered the room staring at Cyndra, who was asleep in my style="line-height: 1.7em;" /North was the first to speak. "Manny said... There was trouble... What happened?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Tooth nodded even as Sandy stepped closer. They all wanted to know, all looked at style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I sighed. "Pitch is her ally. They were here... but..." I didn't know what to say. Cyndra was a mortal girl... shouldn't have been capable of ... that...br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny finished for me. "The little sheila is in more peril than we had thought. She has been chosen by the moon. She is the Moon Princess..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Tooth raised a hand to her mouth in shock. Sandy lowered his head. North shook in a combination of anger and excitement. Bunny was just staring at her... But I didn't even know what that style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"...Moon Princess?" I asked glancing down at her before looking at the style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy just shook his head and walked forward as made a few images that I understood. A girl, a bed, and then a dream cloud. I sighed and placed Cyndra back in the bed she had been sleeping in earlier and Sandy fed a line of dream sand to her, but as they got near to her, the sand turned black. I frowned and looked at style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"What...?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy made more images that North had to translate for style="line-height: 1.7em;" /"He said that Pitch is purposefully coming after her. He wants to get to you, but did not realize the amount of strength that Cyndra has, even as human child. He will get back soon."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I glanced at Cyndra, who looked like she was sleeping peacefully, but was style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I still didn't know what the others meant about a moon princess, but surely that didn't mean that made she any less safe if she had five guardians watching over style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny moved over to Sandy's side. "Frostbite, You don't know who the Moon Princess is? Surely you have heard stories... It is supposed to be a myth... "br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head. I had no clue what that meant. "I've never heard anything about her..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny frowned. "There was once a really old myth... no one knows how it came to be, but it was a story."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /He started the style="line-height: 1.7em;" /em style="line-height: 1.7em;""There once was a village on the line where a lake met a mountain forest. The lake was the clearest of lakes, a deep blue that lightened as you reached the shores, and the forest was as old as the mountains themselves. The trees were tall and the brush was thick. In the village, there was a man who bartered goods for food to feed his family. He sold tanned hides and hand-sewn clothing. And each day he would return home with a loaf of bread and a basket that held vegetables and meat. He had a bright smile and bright eyes. His wife and two children, a boy and a girl, would always greet him with a hug, and thought it a blessing for his safe return. He would hug each of them and ten turn to the fire to cook the food for his family. His daughter was a smart child. She was nine winters and she loved the snow, especially at night when the moonlight would reflect off of the snow. And she knew her father worked very hard to feed them, and decided that after they ate, she would take him outside to see the moons reflection off of the snow. She waited, and as she ate, she planned. She wanted her father to be happy. When the bowls were cleared away, she grabbed her father's hand and pulled him outside. A smile covered his face when he saw it, except, something seemed of. His daughter was laughing but she was running around and as he watched her, he noticed that the light of the moon seemed to be brighter when it was on her. He frowned when he saw that and drug her crying back into the house, hoping no one had seen. They would kill her if she was caught like that, they would say she used magic. That she was evil. So he decided he had to protect her. She was not allowed to play in the snow once the sun style="line-height: 1.7em;" /But the girl was stubborn, and the moon was a comfort. She snuck out of the small window in her room to play in the snow one night. And someone had seen her as she glowed in the light of the moon. She was unaware of that when she crawled back in through her window. She didn't know that she would glow in the light of the style="line-height: 1.7em;" /That same night she woke to the smell of smoke in the house, and the sight of fire in her room. She panicked, wanting away, knowing that the fire meant death, but it was all around her. She didn't know that the light of the moon was streaming in through her window to protect her and her family. It burst away from her, blowing the fire out in a shock wave of light. The girl stared at the now singed walls before rushing towards the rest of her family, to find them safe. She sighed as she watched over them that night making sure that they were kept safe from the angry villagers who would threaten them again if they knew the fire had not killed them. When her family woke she told them of the fire and of the mysterious light that had issued from her body when she had become scared for herself and her family. They watched her carefully before taking with them what they could and setting fire to the house. The stayed in the woods for many moons before a similar occurrence happened... Only this time the child was too late to save her family from the fire that was consuming that part of the forest. She was left alone and she grew to be fourteen summers when she grappled a bear that had decided she was too close to her cubs. She lost her battle, only to find herself whole on the side of the lake she had grown up next to. She frowned as she walked through the village and no one seemed to notice her, but she protected them from anything that could harm them. She kept them safe, unknowing that they had tried to kill her once before. When she found out... The village was left to despair. Their crops would not grow. The ones who had tried to kill her were becoming sick, some even died. But their children were fine, too young to be touched by the parents hatred, or thought fondly of her style="line-height: 1.7em;" /She was powerful. It was said that she was as powerful as the man in the moon and was able to harness that power to her will. She was a steadfast companion to any who treated her well, and an unwanted enemy to those who didn't. She was a guardian angle to the children of earth, including the spirits, whom she could see since birth as a human. She had always comforted them and showed them the way as best she could."/embr style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head, trying to process what Bunny was telling me. A put a hand against my head. "So... what you are saying is that the moon chose her for a life like this, but told her nothing of it?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /North nodded. "Is not bad. She would not have understood if she had been told sooner."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head, trying to clear it. "So that's why she could see me, regardless of her age and belief..." I glanced to wards her. She was starting to become restless as the nightmares took a stronger hold. I moved closer and sat next to her, placing an arm over her and grabbing her hand. The struggles stopped. And a small smile crept across her face in her sleep. I ran a hand through her hair. It was slightly tangled from everything that had happened, but she leaned into the touch, unaware of it as she slept. I style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy's eyes crinkled and a question mark appeared over his style="line-height: 1.7em;"
/North voiced the question for him. "Why does she not trust Sandy's dream sand to help her? He is supposed to be giving good dreams, yes?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /My smile shrunk slightly. "She believes in you, knows you to be the heroes she knew when she was a child, but she doesn't trust you. She isn't sure if she can."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Tooth responded first. "But she trusts you, Jack, doesn't she?"br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I shook my head. "I think so. But I'm not sure she should..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Bunny heard the extra tones in my voice and his ears lowered. "Jack, mate, it wasn't your fault she got hurt. You couldn't have stopped it from happening. We would have taken you from her by force if you had not have showed up. And probably kept you from her to boot. You can't blame yourself. You know she would have a fit if she found that you still did."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /I looked at her. "I know..."br style="line-height: 1.7em;" /Sandy looked at North before signing that he needed to give good dreams to children from inside the globe room, which had a place where his dream sand could leave. Tooth followed suit and then was flocked by all of her baby teeth who were waiting for the orders she would give. North watched me for a moment before saying something about Christmas rush and yetis. Bunny stayed and shut the door once more. Now more of a guard than ever. I continued to run a hand through her hair as I watched her sleep. It would be a while before she woke once more./span/p
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