The Wizard of Oz
Retold by Mutitoon
Chapter Seventeen
Dorothy opened her eyes and saw the ceiling that was familiar. The girl sat up and looked around the room and recongized the room as her bedroom. The door opened, and Henry entered the room with a tray full with food and Toto weaving around the old man's feet.
"Dot!" The old man smiled, "You're awake!"
"Uncle Henry!" The girl smiled as well as Henry placed the tray on the girl's lap.
Dorothy saw that all of the food on the tray were all of her favorite foods.
"Wow! It all looks so good!" The girl exclaimed, feeling very hungry.
"I thought it would wake you up." Laughed the old man as he sat down on the bed, "Well, eat up."
"Okay." Dorothy said before she started eating.
As his niece shovled the food into her mouth, Henry told the story of how he and Em went looking for Dorothy and Toto for days. After days of searching, they found Dorothy on the side of the very road the girl and the dog disappeared from. Their joy was overflowing, but the joy turned into concern as the girl was unconscious. So, they carried Dorothy into the farmhouse and waited for her to wake up.
"So, you guys have been lookin' for me?" Dorothy asked.
Henry nodded his graying head before he spoke again.
"Yeah, the both of us went lookin' for you out of guilt and concern."
With a huge sigh of relief, Dorothy smiled as she said, "I'm glad to hear that, and I'm sorry about my behavior that night."
"It's all right." The old man said, "We're just glad you're safe and at home."
Dorothy smiled again as Henry picked up the tray, allowing Toto to jump onto the girl's bed. Seeing this, the uncle said, "Now, you rest."
"All right." The girl said, settling into her bed to rest.
As Henry exited the bedroom, Dorothy's thoughts were on one subject: was she at Oz, or was Oz only a dream?
Henry went downstairs to the kitchen to see his wife who was looking at something.
"Hi, honey." The husband greeted his wife with a grin on his face.
"Hello." Em responded, still looking.
"Still lookin' at those things?" Henry 'asked'.
"No," the wife replied with a moody, sarcastic tone of voice, "I'm making dinner."
Henry rolled his eyes as he shook his head at his sarcastic wife. Then, he said, "Dot's restin' now."
"Good." Em said, "Let's hide these."
"You sure that's a good idea?" Herny asked, "I mean, what if she needs them?"
"Don't worry." The older woman smiled as she picked up the silver slippers and the blue sphere, "She'll find them soon enough."
Henry sighed deeply as he followed his wife to their bedroom to hide the items, saying, "All right."
As the couple walked passed the mirror in the hallway, the image of Kakyuu appeared and smiled at the couple, saying, "It might be sooner than they think."
The End