D3 Tell Mallory to Move
Mira knelt down beside the bench.
"Mallory, I want to save you, but all I can do is remind you of the truth. You have to be the one to find the courage to overcome this fear."
The glass figure remained motionless, and the shield was beginning to sway above them.
"I know you can move," Mira insisted with a determined tone. "You're just afraid that you're going to break if you do. But you won't, because you're stronger than you realize. You've just forgotten."
The creaking grew louder again, and Mira suspected that another support was about to give way. The whole shield might fall this time.
"If you don't move, then neither will I," Mira said. "But that shield is going to hurt both of us when it falls."
The noise increased, and Mira was distracted for a moment as she looked up nervously. But a sudden movement at her side drew her gaze back, and a glass hand seized her wrist with a firm but smooth grip. Mallory sat up, still in her glass form, but she swung her legs to one side and rose up, pulling Mira back.
The shield dropped from the wall as its last support gave way, and it fell with a heavy clang upon the bench. It crushed the wooden beneath its weight.
Mira drew in a deep breath and looked over to see Mallory standing beside her. But she still looked like she was made of glass. All at once, small cracks of light appeared in the glass, and Mallory released Mira's wrist. Mira had to shield her eyes as the light grew brighter, but when it faded, she saw that Mallory was herself again.
"I'm back," Mallory said with some relief as she looked down at herself. She leaned forward and hugged Mira.
But then she began to glow again, and Mira could feel Mallory being pulled away from her.
"I'll catch up with you," she told Mallory.
And then the fourth team member was gone, and Mira was standing by herself.
"I hope I'll catch up with them," she muttered. "It's hard to be sure of anything here."
Turning to the last two ducks, Mira walked over to Nosedive who was closer to her. It seemed likely that she would have to help him before she could help Wildwing. Thankfully, there didn't seem to be anything dangerous about to fall on them this time.
"Okay, so at least we're not rushed."
But as Mira looked at the statue of Nosedive before her, she wasn't quite sure what the answer was here.
"So you're trapped like this each night…unable to speak or move, and it has something to do with what you're afraid of."
Mira reached out and touched his hand, still frozen in cold stone
"Are you afraid of being passed by and forgotten?"
There was no answer of course, but Mira felt like she was onto something here.
"Or to use a hockey metaphor, you don't want to be stuck on the bench, do you? But that can't happen, Nosedive. You're so important to this team, and they could never go on without you."
The statue remained.
"This curse has made you afraid that you're never going to break out of this… or that the world will pass you by and forget you. But it doesn't have to be that way. The old Nosedive would never give anyone the option of passing him up. You just have to jump back into the game and show everyone what you're made of."
Mira stood back and waited, but nothing seemed to be happening. There had to be something she could use to remind Nosedive who he was.
(This next choice involves code letters. You should have saved these letters from an earlier time when you read through the first two days of the story. If you made the right choice earlier in the story, then you will have the right code letter and Mira will be able to help Nosedive. If you made the wrong choice, Mira won't be able to help Nosedive break his curse. So which letter do you have?)
If one of your code letters is N, select Code N from the chapter selection.
If one of your code letters is Z, select Code Z from the chapter selection.